I answered @daj 's Ten Pointless Facts https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/tenpointlessfacts/ #Blog #Blogging #Blogpost #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #PersonalBlog
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Can directories rise again? · “It may be once again time for the surfers.” https://ilo.im/16428z
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📝 New #blost - "The Small Web Made Me"
Read my entry for this month’s #IndieWebCarnival!
As we keep our search for the most interesting #fediverse #peertube content creators to fill our "Curated Creators" section on https://tube.inlinestyle.it/ we came across the amazing retrogaming content of @retrodanuart
As said on https://tube.inlinestyle.it/c/retrodanuart@video.hardlimit.com/videos channel, games are a form of art.
Like for other creators we have been adding to our curated creators list, we are also showing support by subscribing to the creator Patreon
#gaming #retrogaming #degoogle #SmallWeb #indieweb #videogames
I got watchdog working -now I can log my birds next week and have it update my journal streamOf.me from my numbers file changes from my phone.
I don't think we should always have to include the "upswing" in struggles we share
When you're in the shit of it & all you hear is upswing, you can feel more alone—that you need to "suck it up/be positive." And I find that toxic
Still, I have BIG feelings about sharing my suck with so little upswing
...cause I'm a hypocritical asshole when it comes to myself🙃
Full thought: https://fromemily.com/feedbackless-feed/#May-22-2025-09-36-AM
#ChronicIllness #IndieWeb #writing #MentalHealth #spoonie #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #blog
💚 Thread Thursday #11 💚
How do you keep your website feeling fresh and engaging? Do you think it’s important to refresh your site frequently, or are small tweaks enough? Let us know! 👇
https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%9a-thread-thursday-11-%f0%9f%92%9a/
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Was playing around with vector embeddings today. (Side note: Turns out my blog has duplicate posts! Maybe I need to clean up the database someday.)
Got an idea for a quick LLM enhancement that I could build into Bowl: I guess I could call it "vibe-tagging".
Compute embeddings over the post's content (maybe with a vision-capable embedding model), and then compute embeddings over common tags used in posts before (I vaguely remember Micropub having a ?q=category extension that one could use for that) and propose several tags that are above the similarity threshold (cosine similarity?).
The good thing about it is since embedding models are tiny, this could be potentially ran entirely on-device, without a need for an external API. (To be completely honest, Smart Summary could also run on-device with a small enough model, but I reached for the Ollama API out of habit to simplify handling model deployment and use GPU acceleration.)
🔖 Bookmarked A Blog Is Freedom (https://reeswrites.com/posts/a-blog-is-freedom/)
We all need a bit more freedom across the web
🔖 Bookmarked My happy space in the web (https://plunch.de/my-happy-space-in-the-web/)
> This website is my happy space in the web.
The web doesn't have to be complicated.
🔥 https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/my-happy-space-in-the-web/
🔖 Bookmarked lmno.lol (https://lmno.lol/)
> Wholesome blogs minus the yucky bits of the modern web
Another new small blogging service
Another Update on my NOW Page: https://plunch.de/now/
Nearly done with the kitchen renovation. But the last 5% tend to take longer than expected.
I had a blog post brewing about the #smallweb, #indieweb, #digitalGardening, you mention it. A friend whose website I look after asked me if I could remove the “Blog” section from said website. This prompted me to ship the article.
Small (web) is beautiful
A friend whose website I look after asked me if I could remove the “Blog” section from said website. I pushed back. Posting on our own websites is the way we have to counter Big Tech / Social Media conglomerates. We should all be doing it. You own your content, and people can subscribe to it, and you can follow their blogs / websites / instances as well. The alternative is an amalgamation of “content” tailored to make the uber-rich richer, and the regular people slaves to the algorithms and screens.
People reforesting Instituto Terra (photo by Sebastião Salgado)I dream of a web that fosters healthy conversations, together with personal and intellectual growth. The world is diverse and fascinating, and we can be information explorers together. Whenever I write a longform blog post and share it with the world (on my RSS feed, on Mastodon / ActivityPub or on Reddit), I get people recommending me similar reads, which in turn I use to improve the original blog post (and my own personal knowledge). I love it when people challenge my ideas — as that opens my mind to unseen perspectives — and I wish the web was a safe place where this could happen much more often.
Similarly, one of my favourite pastimes is visiting someone’s digital garden (there are search engines and directories just for this, go explore!) and click around. Discover their interests, what and who they link to, who was there before me. What cool side projects have they been creating. I favour a kind of active serendipity as opposed to a passive one, promoted by the brainrot child of TikTok’s and Instagram’s doomscroll (ideas for names for a metal band, anyone?).
Even though the internet and the World Wide Web are now decades old, owning and expanding on a website is still a practice reserved for the privileged few of us. One of the missions I pursue in my career as a web builder is to give friends whose work I admire a place on the web. These people are bringing amazing ideas to fruition every day, and yet had no way of showcasing them except by sharing on social media and thus being subject to the whims of a much obscure algorithm, or worse, being forced to pay for reach, using the platform’s ads.
If you are a web developer (or you can simply write HTML and CSS) and you are reading this, try reaching out to a non-geek friend with a lot to say, pay for their hosting, build them a website, and educate them on the art of the IndieWeb. Automatically post to the Fediverse / Mastodon using ActivityPub (WordPress and Ghost both let you do this easily), make sure they have an RSS feed that is easy to find on the website, expand their discoverability by sharing the URL on personalsit.es, indieblog.page, Feedle, et al. Plug them directly into the small web. The Real web, as Kinopio‘s creator Piri beautifully phrased it:
If you are not familiar with web development, you should learn. It’s not that hard and it’s fun. If you’re in a rush to be online and experiment with all the beauties of being retrievable and have your ideas expanded upon, some platforms allow you to do that easily, today. Weird.one is one of them. Share other tools you know in the comments below.
Link, and thou shalt be linked
The antidote to ultra-capitalistic platforms whose main goal is to keep you inside their walled gardens can be traced back to the very origin of the World Wide Web; the humble link. Hypertext is the HT in HTML.
Ever noticed that Instagram doesn’t allow for links, except for the one Link In BioTM? Did you know that LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter X will demote your post on their platforms if it contains a link (any link) to an outside resource or website? (This is why you will see people adding links to threads or comments on the post, not the post itself.)
If you want to make Big Tech tremble, link out of your web property. Ask people to link back to you, and be fearless about following links. This is how we keep the web buzzing with connections and community, where ideas can thrive and be found. (If this post were an email, it would surely be flagged as spam because of all the links.)
Build it and they will not come
As I alluded in a previous post, owning a website and your data is amazing, fundamental, liberating and life-changing… if people notice you. Being online is the first (necessary) step, but you will still need to get your content out there since that’s when the fun begins. Remember this is a long game, and heed some tips from a seasoned web publisher (me), who is still only beginning to learn:
- POSSIE (Publish Once, Syndicate Everywhere, automatically)
- You can post a copy of your text that links to your original text on platforms such as Medium
- Submit your website to indie / smallweb directories, such as:
- Write honest and heartfelt posts and then share the link on Reddit and Lemmy. Find the sub-forum that hosts content on that topic. Play nice and reply to all comments in a civilised manner.
- Maintain a healthy mailing list of your friends, family, colleagues, neighbours, webizens, and ship out a sporadic email reminding them that you are doing cool stuff, and asking what they are building themselves. Link to them. Again.
- Interact online in an honest and altruistic fashion on Discord, forums, Mastodon, Bluesky. These interactions will turn into connections. Delete all things Meta and X.
- Get on a webring. These are closed loops (rings) of websites, each directing to the next, until you reach the last that links to the first. A great way to forest an improbable community. I’m on CSS Joy, as you can see in the footer below.
The small and indie web are topics that are very dear to me. I am constantly reflecting upon them, and this Kinopio space is where I expand the mind map that helps me connect the many pieces.
Meanwhile, I’ll let you know if my friend is keeping his blog or not.
More amazing reads, by very talented neighbours
- Digital Gardening Chris Armstrong, who, in turn, links to:
- How the blog broke the web. Amy Hoy
- A brief history & ethos of the digital garden Maggie Appleton
- My blog is a digital garden, not a blog. Joel Hooks
- Planting your digital garden. Conor Dewey
- Reweirding the web John Allsopp
- We can have a different web Molly White
- Everybody’s Free (To Write Websites) Sara Joy
- The open web as gift economy (Part 4) Tracy Durnell via Anne Mueler via Dense Discovery
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Learning to Code Over and Over https://mtwb.blog/learning-to-code-over-and-over/ #programming #blogging #coding #development #indidev #indieweb #amwriting #writing
Just started my #freelancing journey and would love some shares of my company. If you or someone you know needs any #digital #web work done share this with them please! #indieweb
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💛 Webring Wednesday #9: The Magical Ring 💛
Read the full post: https://smallweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%f0%9f%92%9b-webring-wednesday-9-the-magical-ring-%f0%9f%92%9b/
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At Google I/O, everything is changing · “The great disruption to the web continues.” https://ilo.im/1641yo
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RSS May Be The Best Invention Ever https://mtwb.blog/rss-may-be-the-best-invention-ever/ #internet #indieweb #writing #amwriting #blogging #amblogging
Note's from today's #FrontEnd Study Hall event are now posted. Lots of fun discussion! https://indieweb.org/events/2025-05-20-front-end-study-hall #IndieWeb ... next one in 2 weeks. Thanks to all who came and participated!