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        "html": "<p>Looking for a European alternative to Google services?</p><p>InlineStyle is a small, independent cloud platform.<br />Email, Docs, Music, Video, Games, Notes.<br />All hosted in the EU, with no ads and respectful of your privacy.</p><p>\ud83c\udfa5 Watch:<br /><a href=\"https://tube.inlinestyle.it/w/aSbhT2AL754efDaLcfXg9b\"><span>https://</span><span>tube.inlinestyle.it/w/aSbhT2AL</span><span>754efDaLcfXg9b</span></a></p><p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@european_alternatives\">@<span>european_alternatives</span></a></span> we admire your work and would love your help spreading the word.<br />We share the same vision: EU tech for everyday users.</p><p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https://www.inlinestyle.it\"><span>https://www.</span><span>inlinestyle.it</span><span></span></a><br />\ud83d\udcac Feedback welcome</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/BuyEU\">#<span>BuyEU</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/DeGoogle\">#<span>DeGoogle</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource\">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse\">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/FOSS\">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@european_alternatives\"></a>",
        "text": "Looking for a European alternative to Google services?\n\nInlineStyle is a small, independent cloud platform.\nEmail, Docs, Music, Video, Games, Notes.\nAll hosted in the EU, with no ads and respectful of your privacy.\n\n\ud83c\udfa5 Watch:\nhttps://tube.inlinestyle.it/w/aSbhT2AL754efDaLcfXg9b\n\n@european_alternatives we admire your work and would love your help spreading the word.\nWe share the same vision: EU tech for everyday users.\n\n\ud83d\udd17 https://www.inlinestyle.it\n\ud83d\udcac Feedback welcome\n\n#BuyEU #DeGoogle #OpenSource #Fediverse #FOSS #IndieWeb"
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        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://toot.si/@adelinawrites\">@<span>adelinawrites</span></a></span> welcome to the <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> and watch your <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalgarden\">#<span>digitalgarden</span></a> grow!</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/smolweb\">#<span>smolweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/personalweb\">#<span>personalweb</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://toot.si/@adelinawrites\"></a>",
        "text": "@adelinawrites welcome to the #indieweb\n\n#blog and watch your #digitalgarden grow!\n\n#smallweb #smolweb #personalweb"
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        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://toot.si/@adelinawrites\">@<span>adelinawrites</span></a></span> Here on <a href=\"https://toot.si/tags/tootsi\">#<span>tootsi</span></a> there's a few of us interested in <a href=\"https://toot.si/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\"><span>https://</span><span>indieweb.org/</span><span></span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://toot.si/@adelinawrites\"></a>",
        "text": "@adelinawrites Here on #tootsi there's a few of us interested in #indieweb \n\nhttps://indieweb.org/"
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    "url": "https://masto.es/@juanlo/114505360312233040",
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        "html": "<p>Puto m\u00f3vil, putas redes, puto rss, puta falta de capacidad de concentraci\u00f3n....</p><p><a href=\"https://jlogp.org/feedline#14_mayo_2025_sin_rss\"><span>https://</span><span>jlogp.org/feedline#14_mayo_202</span><span>5_sin_rss</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://masto.es/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://masto.es/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
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    "url": "https://mastodon.world/@hamatti/114504755262432590",
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        "html": "<p>I wanted to provide programmatic access to the next upcoming event information on our community websites.</p><p>We store the event calendar as Eleventy Global Data File, so I combined that with Netlify Functions to create a serverless function API endpoint that on every build, will update the response to include the next scheduled event.</p><p>I wrote about how to do it in my blog!</p><p><a href=\"https://hamatti.org/posts/providing-next-event-as-api-with-eleventys-global-data-files-and-netlify-functions/\"><span>https://</span><span>hamatti.org/posts/providing-ne</span><span>xt-event-as-api-with-eleventys-global-data-files-and-netlify-functions/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/eleventy\">#<span>eleventy</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/11ty\">#<span>11ty</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a></p>",
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        "html": "<p>I got a new phone. Ironically, this was *not* written on it.<br /><a href=\"https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/newphone/\"><span>https://</span><span>axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/newp</span><span>hone/</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/Blog\">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/Blogging\">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/Blogpost\">#<span>Blogpost</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/PersonalWebsite\">#<span>PersonalWebsite</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/PersonalBlog\">#<span>PersonalBlog</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/SmartPhone\">#<span>SmartPhone</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I got a new phone. Ironically, this was *not* written on it.\nhttps://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/newphone/\n#Blog #Blogging #Blogpost #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #PersonalBlog #SmartPhone"
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    "url": "https://wetdry.world/@mae_h/114503870288827310",
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        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://maehat.neocities.org/\"><span>https://</span><span>maehat.neocities.org/</span><span></span></a><br />Update has been done...</p><p>By the way! If you have my site in your RSS Feed Reader, please update as I have remade the RSS feeds as the URL change had broken them.</p><p><a href=\"https://wetdry.world/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href=\"https://wetdry.world/tags/theHATsite\">#<span>theHATsite</span></a> <a href=\"https://wetdry.world/tags/neocities\">#<span>neocities</span></a> <a href=\"https://wetdry.world/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
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        "html": "<p>If you liked Artificial Divide Royalties and Buzz, my feed URL is <a href=\"https://sightlessscribbles.com/\"><span>https://</span><span>sightlessscribbles.com/</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/RSS\">#<span>RSS</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
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Flipboard Expands Publisher Federation with International Partners

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        "text": "[Flipboard Expands Publisher Federation with International Partners]\n\nFlipboard just launched 124 new publishers to the Fediverse - bringing the total number it hosts to 1,241.\n\"We\u2019re excited to announce that Flipboard is beginning to federate publisher accounts in France, Italy, and Spain, while also expanding federation in Brazil, Germany, and the U.K. \u2014 making quality journalism even more accessible across the fediverse.\nPeople using Mastodon, Threads, and other platforms on the open social web (also known as the fediverse) can now discover and follow stories from an outstanding lineup of publishers in these regions.\"\nThis is the kind of thing that the permissionless fediverse makes possible. Flipboard didn't need to ask permission of the social platforms to make these changes - it could just do it on their behalf, opening these publishers up to huge new potential audiences on social media.\n\nNotably these publications include Der Spiegel, Vanity Fair Italia, and The Evening Standard. It's exciting stuff, and Flipboard is doing a great job bringing publishers online.\n#Fediverse\n            [Link]",
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        "html": "Our new \ud83e\udd2d facebook banner \ud83d\ude06\ud83d\udc80 - post 1 of 3. (View it all together on our profile page.)<br /><br /><br /><br />\nWe've never done a multi-part post before and don't plan on making a habit of this. So apologies for crowding your feed today, but we thought you'd enjoy this.<br /><br /><br /><br />\nEven though we've been effectively ghosting facebook since at least 2017, it seemed like a good time to slap a surgeon general style message on our page, lol.<br /><br /><br /><br />\nAnd we know we're preaching to the choir here but still wanted to take a minute to reflect on what makes Pixelfed a far better place to be.<br /><br /><br /><br />\n\u26acWe love that it doesn't optimize for addiction at the expense of authenticity, unlike every centralized platform.<br /><br /><br /><br />\n\u26acWe love that engagement feels real here, not gamified. People actually see and respond to posts\u2014not because the algorithm incentivized it, but because they want to.<br /><br /><br /><br />\n\u26acWe love that sharing on PF is about connection, not metrics.<br /><br /><br /><br />\n\u26acWe love that there are no ads, no doomscrolling, and no pressure to chase trends. Just thoughtful human posts and interactions.<br /><br /><br /><br />\nIn conclusion: WE ARE ALL IN ON PIXELFED!!! \ud83e\udef6\ud83d\ude18<br /><br /><br /><br /><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/community?src=hash\">#community</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/friendship?src=hash\">#friendship</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/connection?src=hash\">#connection</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/authenticity?src=hash\">#authenticity</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Fediverse?src=hash\">#Fediverse</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Pixelfed?src=hash\">#Pixelfed</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Underdog?src=hash\">#Underdog</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/decentralized?src=hash\">#decentralized</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/opensource?src=hash\">#opensource</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/linux?src=hash\">#linux</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/darktable?src=hash\">#darktable</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SmallWeb?src=hash\">#SmallWeb</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/IndieWeb?src=hash\">#IndieWeb</a>",
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        "html": "Our new \ud83e\udd2d facebook banner \ud83d\ude06\ud83d\udc80 - post 2 of 3. (View it all together on our profile page.)<br /><br /><br /><br />\nWe've never done a multi-part post before and don't plan on making a habit of this. So apologies for crowding your feed today, but we thought you'd enjoy this.<br /><br /><br /><br />\nEven though we've been effectively ghosting facebook since at least 2017, it seemed like a good time to slap a surgeon general style message on our page, lol.<br /><br /><br /><br />\nAnd we know we're preaching to the choir here but still wanted to take a minute to reflect on what makes Pixelfed a far better place to be.<br /><br /><br /><br />\n\u26acWe love that it doesn't optimize for addiction at the expense of authenticity, unlike every centralized platform.<br /><br /><br /><br />\n\u26acWe love that engagement feels real here, not gamified. People actually see and respond to posts\u2014not because the algorithm incentivized it, but because they want to.<br /><br /><br /><br />\n\u26acWe love that sharing on PF is about connection, not metrics.<br /><br /><br /><br />\n\u26acWe love that there are no ads, no doomscrolling, and no pressure to chase trends. Just thoughtful human posts and interactions.<br /><br /><br /><br />\nIn conclusion: WE ARE ALL IN ON PIXELFED!!! \ud83e\udef6\ud83d\ude18<br /><br /><br /><br /><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/community?src=hash\">#community</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/friendship?src=hash\">#friendship</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/connection?src=hash\">#connection</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/authenticity?src=hash\">#authenticity</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Fediverse?src=hash\">#Fediverse</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Pixelfed?src=hash\">#Pixelfed</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Underdog?src=hash\">#Underdog</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/decentralized?src=hash\">#decentralized</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/opensource?src=hash\">#opensource</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/linux?src=hash\">#linux</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/darktable?src=hash\">#darktable</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SmallWeb?src=hash\">#SmallWeb</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/IndieWeb?src=hash\">#IndieWeb</a>",
        "text": "Our new \ud83e\udd2d facebook banner \ud83d\ude06\ud83d\udc80 - post 2 of 3. (View it all together on our profile page.)\n\n\n\n\nWe've never done a multi-part post before and don't plan on making a habit of this. So apologies for crowding your feed today, but we thought you'd enjoy this.\n\n\n\n\nEven though we've been effectively ghosting facebook since at least 2017, it seemed like a good time to slap a surgeon general style message on our page, lol.\n\n\n\n\nAnd we know we're preaching to the choir here but still wanted to take a minute to reflect on what makes Pixelfed a far better place to be.\n\n\n\n\n\u26acWe love that it doesn't optimize for addiction at the expense of authenticity, unlike every centralized platform.\n\n\n\n\n\u26acWe love that engagement feels real here, not gamified. People actually see and respond to posts\u2014not because the algorithm incentivized it, but because they want to.\n\n\n\n\n\u26acWe love that sharing on PF is about connection, not metrics.\n\n\n\n\n\u26acWe love that there are no ads, no doomscrolling, and no pressure to chase trends. Just thoughtful human posts and interactions.\n\n\n\n\nIn conclusion: WE ARE ALL IN ON PIXELFED!!! \ud83e\udef6\ud83d\ude18\n\n\n\n#community #friendship #connection #authenticity #Fediverse #Pixelfed #Underdog #decentralized #opensource #linux #darktable #SmallWeb #IndieWeb"
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        "html": "Our new \ud83e\udd2d facebook banner \ud83d\ude06\ud83d\udc80 - post 3 of 3. (View it all together on our profile page.)<br /><br /><br /><br />\nWe've never done a multi-part post before and don't plan on making a habit of this. So apologies for crowding your feed today, but we thought you'd enjoy this.<br /><br /><br /><br />\nEven though we've been effectively ghosting facebook since at least 2017, it seemed like a good time to slap a surgeon general style message on our page, lol.<br /><br /><br /><br />\nAnd we know we're preaching to the choir here but still wanted to take a minute to reflect on what makes Pixelfed a far better place to be.<br /><br /><br /><br />\n\u26acWe love that it doesn't optimize for addiction at the expense of authenticity, unlike every centralized platform.<br /><br /><br /><br />\n\u26acWe love that engagement feels real here, not gamified. People actually see and respond to posts\u2014not because the algorithm incentivized it, but because they want to.<br /><br /><br /><br />\n\u26acWe love that sharing on PF is about connection, not metrics.<br /><br /><br /><br />\n\u26acWe love that there are no ads, no doomscrolling, and no pressure to chase trends. Just thoughtful human posts and interactions.<br /><br /><br /><br />\nIn conclusion: WE ARE ALL IN ON PIXELFED!!! \ud83e\udef6\ud83d\ude18<br /><br /><br /><br /><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/community?src=hash\">#community</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/friendship?src=hash\">#friendship</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/connection?src=hash\">#connection</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/authenticity?src=hash\">#authenticity</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Fediverse?src=hash\">#Fediverse</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Pixelfed?src=hash\">#Pixelfed</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Underdog?src=hash\">#Underdog</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/decentralized?src=hash\">#decentralized</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/opensource?src=hash\">#opensource</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/linux?src=hash\">#linux</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/darktable?src=hash\">#darktable</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SmallWeb?src=hash\">#SmallWeb</a> <a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/IndieWeb?src=hash\">#IndieWeb</a>",
        "text": "Our new \ud83e\udd2d facebook banner \ud83d\ude06\ud83d\udc80 - post 3 of 3. (View it all together on our profile page.)\n\n\n\n\nWe've never done a multi-part post before and don't plan on making a habit of this. So apologies for crowding your feed today, but we thought you'd enjoy this.\n\n\n\n\nEven though we've been effectively ghosting facebook since at least 2017, it seemed like a good time to slap a surgeon general style message on our page, lol.\n\n\n\n\nAnd we know we're preaching to the choir here but still wanted to take a minute to reflect on what makes Pixelfed a far better place to be.\n\n\n\n\n\u26acWe love that it doesn't optimize for addiction at the expense of authenticity, unlike every centralized platform.\n\n\n\n\n\u26acWe love that engagement feels real here, not gamified. People actually see and respond to posts\u2014not because the algorithm incentivized it, but because they want to.\n\n\n\n\n\u26acWe love that sharing on PF is about connection, not metrics.\n\n\n\n\n\u26acWe love that there are no ads, no doomscrolling, and no pressure to chase trends. Just thoughtful human posts and interactions.\n\n\n\n\nIn conclusion: WE ARE ALL IN ON PIXELFED!!! \ud83e\udef6\ud83d\ude18\n\n\n\n#community #friendship #connection #authenticity #Fediverse #Pixelfed #Underdog #decentralized #opensource #linux #darktable #SmallWeb #IndieWeb"
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@readbeanicecream/114501012149105050",
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        "html": "<p>My Dumb Ascii Comic</p><p>Proof positive that I may not have enough to do today.</p><p><a href=\"https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/05/13/my-dumb-ascii-comic/\"><span>https://</span><span>readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025</span><span>/05/13/my-dumb-ascii-comic/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/smolweb\">#<span>smolweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/personalweb\">#<span>personalweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/comic\">#<span>comic</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/plaintext\">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/ascii\">#<span>ascii</span></a></p>",
        "text": "My Dumb Ascii Comic\n\nProof positive that I may not have enough to do today.\n\nhttps://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/05/13/my-dumb-ascii-comic/\n\n#blog #blogging #indieweb #smallweb #smolweb #personalweb #comic #plaintext #ascii"
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        "html": "<p>My new favorite term: Website-pilled</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.art/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "My new favorite term: Website-pilled\n\n#indieweb"
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    "published": "2025-05-13T14:23:57+00:00",
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    "url": "https://epistolary.org/@vees/114500566022658252",
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        "html": "<p>Hi friends! Please post your favorite or recent blog post or personal page update as a reply on this thread and I'll include it on my linkdump today. <a href=\"https://epistolary.org/tags/Logrolling\">#<span>Logrolling</span></a> <a href=\"https://epistolary.org/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://epistolary.org/tags/PromoteYourself\">#<span>PromoteYourself</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Hi friends! Please post your favorite or recent blog post or personal page update as a reply on this thread and I'll include it on my linkdump today. #Logrolling #IndieWeb #PromoteYourself"
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        "html": "<p>Become mycelium and explore the vast internet. There is so much internet out there created and curated by humans to be surfed.</p><p><a href=\"https://internetphonebook.net/\"><span>https://</span><span>internetphonebook.net/</span><span></span></a><br /><a href=\"https://feedle.world/\"><span>https://</span><span>feedle.world/</span><span></span></a><br /><a href=\"https://kagi.com/smallweb\"><span>https://</span><span>kagi.com/smallweb</span><span></span></a><br /><a href=\"https://neocities.org/\"><span>https://</span><span>neocities.org/</span><span></span></a></p><p>Credits to Internet Phone Book for the image \ud83d\udc97 </p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/deadinternettheory\">#<span>deadinternettheory</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Become mycelium and explore the vast internet. There is so much internet out there created and curated by humans to be surfed.\n\nhttps://internetphonebook.net/\nhttps://feedle.world/\nhttps://kagi.com/smallweb\nhttps://neocities.org/\n\nCredits to Internet Phone Book for the image \ud83d\udc97 \n\n#deadinternettheory #smallweb #indieweb #blogging"
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    "url": "https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114498609418223474",
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        "html": "<p>Artificial Divide Royalties and Buzz <a href=\"https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250505/\"><span>https://</span><span>sightlessscribbles.com/posts/2</span><span>0250505/</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Artificial Divide Royalties and Buzz https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250505/ #IndieWeb"
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    "published": "2025-05-13T04:22:09+00:00",
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    "url": "https://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/13/pushback-against-digital-gardens/",
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        "html": "<p><strong>Pushback against digital\u00a0gardens?</strong></p><p>One of the most unexpected things I\u2019ve seen is the pushback I\u2019ve seen against digital gardens.</p><p>I wrote the blog post <a href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/\">Digital gardens vs blogging: What\u2019s the\u00a0difference?</a>. The intention was to demonstrate how these two ways of being on the Internet differ from each other.</p><p>My interpretation, by the way, is not something I came up with but is echoed by some digital garden practitioners such as Joel Hooks: <a href=\"https://joelhooks.com/on-writing-more/\">Stop Giving af and Start Writing More</a>.</p><p>I suspect part of the reason I resonated with his article (especially his resentment and irritation about what blogging has become), was because I was a blogger since the dawn of the Internet. I used to build my blog using raw HTML, back when blog wasn\u2019t even called a blog.</p><p>Over the years, I\u2019ve seen blogging morph from online diaries and eccentric websites sharing quirky things to well-polished, SEO-optimised articles promoting brands, businesses, a person\u2019s skills and knowledge via templatised web structures.</p><p>Yes, granted that this is a generalisation of how people blog, but just search for the term \u201cblog\u201d or \u201cblogging\u201d and you\u2019ll get recommendations on how to be a top blog on the search engines, SEO tactics, endless listicles and more.</p><p>Leaving aside those who refuse to comply to these demands*, blogging has been dominated by SEO and marketing forces for a long time.</p><p>(If you belong to this category, really, this article is not speaking about you (nor am I speaking about those who do), I\u2019m not calling you inferior for writing content chronologically! I mean, see how dumb that sentence reads?)</p><p>Besides this article, I remember sharing Maggie Appleton\u2019s digital garden illustration in <a href=\"https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest\">The Dark Forest and Generative AI</a>, and got a flurry of angry posts from it too.</p><p>People were fixated with her interpretation of the Dark Web. (I suppose describing it as a place of \u201cdecomposing morals\u201d didn\u2019t help. It\u2019s nice to know that even the great Digital Gardner Maggie Appleton is not immune to pushback.)</p><p>I can\u2019t help but chuckle about this as I feel what I\u2019m seeing is the human instinct of being tribal and taking sides, happening here. We are all cave men in the end, driven by the instinct to protect our tribes.</p><p>I believe people can be very attached to their way of doing things, whether it be eating, living, commuting, blogging, you name it.</p><p>However, I\u2019d like to emphasise that this post is not to <em>attack </em>the people giving me pushback about digital gardens. The ego may be somewhat dented (mostly because I\u2019m annoyed that my writing wasn\u2019t clear enough but caused misunderstanding), but this is valuable feedback. This is why I wrote the post!</p><p>The feedback made me wonder if there\u2019s anyway to unruffle feathers and re-clarify the concept of digital gardens so that people may be less adversarial towards it.</p><p><strong>It\u2019s not an us vs them issue, truly</strong></p><p>I was perhaps too quick to say that blogging is a promotional activity, though if you\u2019ve worked in media for as long as I have (literally from the dawn of the Internet age), it sure seems like it, especially with the emphasis of using the medium to \u201cbuild your brand\u201d. Yes, I admit that <a href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/blog/i-hate-what-blogging-has-become/\">I hate what blogging has become</a>, saying:</p><blockquote><p>Marketing has assimilated blogging and I hate it.</p></blockquote><p>I didn\u2019t think of adding a disclaimer to <a href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/2025/05/10/digital-gardens-vs-blogging-whats-the-difference/\">my article</a> saying that \u201cthis is my opinion, and this doesn\u2019t apply to all blogs\u201d was kinda understood, but next time I\u2019ll be sure to add it for clarity!</p><p>I concede that my article\u2019s title, \u201cDigital Gardens vs Blogging\u201d, didn\u2019t help matters, but seriously, I had zero intentions to pit blogging and digital gardening against each other.</p><p>For one, I am <em>still </em>blogging side by side with my digital garden! The category, <a href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/category/journal/\">Journal</a>, is literally my blog, which I still blog about my life, chronologically. And occasionally, I commit the sin of building my personal brand with it!</p><p><strong>My website is actually a hybrid \u2013 a digital garden <em>and</em> a blog.</strong></p><p>And that\u2019s the best thing about digital gardening is that your website can look however you want.</p><p><strong>It\u2019s not about which one is better</strong></p><p>At the end of the day the difference between bloggers and digital gardeners is not whether one is better than the other, but in the way they organise and write their content.</p><p>That\u2019s it.</p><p>Let me repeat for clarity:</p><p>From what I understand from reading the many, many articles about digital gardens, the difference between blogging and digital gardening lies in the way content is:</p><ul><li><strong>organised.</strong> Blogs = chronological, digital gardens = not chronological</li><li><strong>written.</strong> Blogs = usually polished and SEO optimised, so that it can be promoted via social media channels. Digital gardens = unfinished copy. The gardener may return to the post/page to update it with more information later.</li><li><strong>niched.</strong> Not necessarily true for all blogs, of course, but it is \u201ccommon wisdom\u201d that if you want to get more eyeballs, niching is the way to go for blogs. Digital gardeners usually do not write about one topic nor do they angst about niching. Usually.</li><li><strong>fleeting or evergreen</strong>. Blogs, due to their <em>chronological structure</em> is fleeting. Old posts are often buried. Digital gardens are structured in such a way that each post can be evergreen, resurfaced again and again. Often, digital gardens are organised by categories where people can \u201cfall into rabbit holes\u201d where one post can lead to links to many other posts.</li></ul><p>I think part of the problem is that there\u2019s a lot of mystery around the term \u201cdigital gardens\u201d. At least for now. So, it\u2019s being promoted as some revolutionary, new-fangled thing.</p><p>Honestly, it isn\u2019t that mysterious or even new. One way to think about digital gardens is that it is simply <strong>an individual\u2019s curated wiki on the Internet, a knowledge base.</strong></p><p>Both digital gardens and blogging have the same objective, sharing knowledge.</p><p><strong>So, in conclusion:</strong></p><p>Digital gardening is just a different way to present your thoughts on the Internet.</p><p>You can blog and digital garden at the same time and in the same space like I do.</p><p>Digital gardens give you the freedom to<a href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/2023/06/20/how-im-healing-from-algorithms/\"> break free of preconceived</a> notions or \u201cbest practices\u201d on how to write on the Internet.</p><p><a href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/06/being-an-imperfect-gardener-of-my-digital-garden/\">Digital gardens can be freeing</a>. For one, it was one of the main reasons why I am writing more on my website now. Because I realise I don\u2019t have to dance to the algorithm anymore just to be read.</p><p>I write in my digital garden because I want to learn in public.</p><p>I write in my digital garden because I want to clarify my ideas and what I\u2019ve learned. By writing and teaching others about my ideas and learnings, I get to solidify what I\u2019ve learned in my brain. </p><p>The feedback I get, even negative ones, help me reshape my ideas.</p><p>In the end, I write in my digital garden because it makes me happy.</p><p><a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/tag/being-a-writer/\">#BeingAWriter</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/tag/blog/\">#blog</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/tag/blogging/\">#blogging</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/tag/digitalgardens/\">#digitalgardens</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/tag/indieweb/\">#indieweb</a> <a class=\"u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elizabethtai.com/tag/internet/\">#Internet</a></p>",
        "text": "Pushback against digital\u00a0gardens?\n\nOne of the most unexpected things I\u2019ve seen is the pushback I\u2019ve seen against digital gardens.\n\nI wrote the blog post Digital gardens vs blogging: What\u2019s the\u00a0difference?. The intention was to demonstrate how these two ways of being on the Internet differ from each other.\n\nMy interpretation, by the way, is not something I came up with but is echoed by some digital garden practitioners such as Joel Hooks: Stop Giving af and Start Writing More.\n\nI suspect part of the reason I resonated with his article (especially his resentment and irritation about what blogging has become), was because I was a blogger since the dawn of the Internet. I used to build my blog using raw HTML, back when blog wasn\u2019t even called a blog.\n\nOver the years, I\u2019ve seen blogging morph from online diaries and eccentric websites sharing quirky things to well-polished, SEO-optimised articles promoting brands, businesses, a person\u2019s skills and knowledge via templatised web structures.\n\nYes, granted that this is a generalisation of how people blog, but just search for the term \u201cblog\u201d or \u201cblogging\u201d and you\u2019ll get recommendations on how to be a top blog on the search engines, SEO tactics, endless listicles and more.\n\nLeaving aside those who refuse to comply to these demands*, blogging has been dominated by SEO and marketing forces for a long time.\n\n(If you belong to this category, really, this article is not speaking about you (nor am I speaking about those who do), I\u2019m not calling you inferior for writing content chronologically! I mean, see how dumb that sentence reads?)\n\nBesides this article, I remember sharing Maggie Appleton\u2019s digital garden illustration in The Dark Forest and Generative AI, and got a flurry of angry posts from it too.\n\nPeople were fixated with her interpretation of the Dark Web. (I suppose describing it as a place of \u201cdecomposing morals\u201d didn\u2019t help. It\u2019s nice to know that even the great Digital Gardner Maggie Appleton is not immune to pushback.)\n\nI can\u2019t help but chuckle about this as I feel what I\u2019m seeing is the human instinct of being tribal and taking sides, happening here. We are all cave men in the end, driven by the instinct to protect our tribes.\n\nI believe people can be very attached to their way of doing things, whether it be eating, living, commuting, blogging, you name it.\n\nHowever, I\u2019d like to emphasise that this post is not to attack the people giving me pushback about digital gardens. The ego may be somewhat dented (mostly because I\u2019m annoyed that my writing wasn\u2019t clear enough but caused misunderstanding), but this is valuable feedback. This is why I wrote the post!\n\nThe feedback made me wonder if there\u2019s anyway to unruffle feathers and re-clarify the concept of digital gardens so that people may be less adversarial towards it.\n\nIt\u2019s not an us vs them issue, truly\n\nI was perhaps too quick to say that blogging is a promotional activity, though if you\u2019ve worked in media for as long as I have (literally from the dawn of the Internet age), it sure seems like it, especially with the emphasis of using the medium to \u201cbuild your brand\u201d. Yes, I admit that I hate what blogging has become, saying:Marketing has assimilated blogging and I hate it.I didn\u2019t think of adding a disclaimer to my article saying that \u201cthis is my opinion, and this doesn\u2019t apply to all blogs\u201d was kinda understood, but next time I\u2019ll be sure to add it for clarity!\n\nI concede that my article\u2019s title, \u201cDigital Gardens vs Blogging\u201d, didn\u2019t help matters, but seriously, I had zero intentions to pit blogging and digital gardening against each other.\n\nFor one, I am still blogging side by side with my digital garden! The category, Journal, is literally my blog, which I still blog about my life, chronologically. And occasionally, I commit the sin of building my personal brand with it!\n\nMy website is actually a hybrid \u2013 a digital garden and a blog.\n\nAnd that\u2019s the best thing about digital gardening is that your website can look however you want.\n\nIt\u2019s not about which one is better\n\nAt the end of the day the difference between bloggers and digital gardeners is not whether one is better than the other, but in the way they organise and write their content.\n\nThat\u2019s it.\n\nLet me repeat for clarity:\n\nFrom what I understand from reading the many, many articles about digital gardens, the difference between blogging and digital gardening lies in the way content is:organised. Blogs = chronological, digital gardens = not chronologicalwritten. Blogs = usually polished and SEO optimised, so that it can be promoted via social media channels. Digital gardens = unfinished copy. The gardener may return to the post/page to update it with more information later.niched. Not necessarily true for all blogs, of course, but it is \u201ccommon wisdom\u201d that if you want to get more eyeballs, niching is the way to go for blogs. Digital gardeners usually do not write about one topic nor do they angst about niching. Usually.fleeting or evergreen. Blogs, due to their chronological structure is fleeting. Old posts are often buried. Digital gardens are structured in such a way that each post can be evergreen, resurfaced again and again. Often, digital gardens are organised by categories where people can \u201cfall into rabbit holes\u201d where one post can lead to links to many other posts.I think part of the problem is that there\u2019s a lot of mystery around the term \u201cdigital gardens\u201d. At least for now. So, it\u2019s being promoted as some revolutionary, new-fangled thing.\n\nHonestly, it isn\u2019t that mysterious or even new. One way to think about digital gardens is that it is simply an individual\u2019s curated wiki on the Internet, a knowledge base.\n\nBoth digital gardens and blogging have the same objective, sharing knowledge.\n\nSo, in conclusion:\n\nDigital gardening is just a different way to present your thoughts on the Internet.\n\nYou can blog and digital garden at the same time and in the same space like I do.\n\nDigital gardens give you the freedom to break free of preconceived notions or \u201cbest practices\u201d on how to write on the Internet.\n\nDigital gardens can be freeing. For one, it was one of the main reasons why I am writing more on my website now. Because I realise I don\u2019t have to dance to the algorithm anymore just to be read.\n\nI write in my digital garden because I want to learn in public.\n\nI write in my digital garden because I want to clarify my ideas and what I\u2019ve learned. By writing and teaching others about my ideas and learnings, I get to solidify what I\u2019ve learned in my brain. \n\nThe feedback I get, even negative ones, help me reshape my ideas.\n\nIn the end, I write in my digital garden because it makes me happy.\n\n#BeingAWriter #blog #blogging #digitalgardens #indieweb #Internet"
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