It's July. That means the #TourDeFrance is on. I wrote a little piece about why I love the #tour.

https://tlohde.com/blog/2025/07/le-tour/

#tdf #tdf2025 #smallWebJuly #blog #indieweb

Photo button when editing posts

Announcing a change to Micro.blog’s editing interface for photos.

I added a theme toggle to my site. It should respect the system settings unless toggled. Otherwise should be respect whatever was last set.

#indieweb #darkmode

I'm glad I figured out variable colors becaues all this took was two line changes for :root colors and the script to toggle it.

Still some alignmenty weirdess on mobile to figure out but it looks pretty neat.

😬 The Obsessive Need to Track Everything - So It Goes… https://notes.krueger.ink/posts/the-obsessive-need-to-track-everything

#Blogging #IndieWeb

I've collated a minor fraction of the cool or interesting #indieweb and #infosec stuff that I've seen over the last week into today's edition (#4) of my #linklog - Scraps!

https://fyr.io/scrap/2025-07-11

Featuring a request for content for @xandra for the next edition of the Good Internet Magazine, a fresh RSS guide by @readbeanicecream (who is also down for more indieweb), plus we have some time travel by @bcshort @theadhocracy and the great @kedara_eu, and a bunch more cool stuff.

We have another update, complete with screenshots and juicy details: https://thinkymeat.neocities.org/posts/11tycms-metadata-editor-11ty-build-integration/

Get em' while they're hot! #11tyCMS #11ty #eleventy #IndieWeb #SSG #blog

Attempting to reset/restore some ability to pay attention and think deeply....

#blog #indieweb #ugh

https://angrybunnyman.com/what-the-actual-fuck-am-i-even-doing/

Talking over on my Bear project about getting microformats working over there....

🪴 in #indieWeb
https://lee-perry.co.uk/microfeed/2025-07-11-using-microformats-with-bear

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#Admin #FediAdmin #IndieWeb #CommunityGuidelines

Internet “tolls”

The addiction to traffic and impressions-based advertising has been an Achilles’ heel of the media establishment. It is hard for them to look at the world through the lens of engagement. The rise of “chat-based” informational interfaces is yet another victory for engagement-trumps-all doctrine. 

Here comes the Internet of “tolls” – On my Om

For all my liberal sentiment around how I believe the Government has a serious role in ensuring a strong net for the polity, I also have a cut throat capitalist streak. As a result, at the risk of sounding corporatist, I believe that no corporation must exist. Sure things will be different and there can be benevolent corporations. However, capitalism deems that companies live and die by their ability to keep themselves alive.

“It felt like we were back in the Napster days for the music industry and that maybe we could supply a Spotify-like solution – a recurring revenue model for the publishing industry,” Joslin said. 

Since then – just 18 months – Tollbit, has become one of the most talked about new ventures in the tech/media startup community. More than 2000 publications now use Tollbit’s system including Time, Newsweek,  AdWeek and the Associated Press. That list also includes publications owned by Penske Media, like Rolling Stone; publications owned by Mansueto Ventures, like Inc and Fast Company; publications owned by Lee Enterprises, which includes almost 80 newspapers; and publications owned by Hearst, which include 27 magazines like Elle and 30 newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle. 

https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/06/22/why-the-ai-revolution-needs-tollbooths/

Online tolls is such a new business that it’s too soon to predict how meaningful first mover advantage will be. But we’re about to find out how much it matters. Cloudflare, the $60 billion content delivery network and cybersecurity giant, is gearing up to launch its own online tollboth on July 1, according to someone who has seen a draft of the press release. 

The prospect of a new revenue stream like this is tantalizing for publishers. For those with long tenures in the business it also feels richly deserved. One of the biggest mistakes the industry made 25 years ago was not taking Google’s rise seriously enough and therefore not demanding more compensation for letting Google crawl their websites when Google was small enough to be pushed around. “Pointing this out is often the last thing we tell publishers when we meet with them,”Panigrahi said. “ Imagine knowing what you know now about Google back then. This is your opportunity to turn the clock back 25 years.’”

This paragraph fills me with dread. Google’s growth, like the web’s (and bitcoin’s) was organic. Engineering incentive alignment has rarely, if ever, worked to meet its design goals. However, as I said, I am ruthlessly capitalistic in these situations and the sad truth is that, in life, there are going to be cases where someone is at an (unfair) disadvantage. In that moment, you can only think about two things – survival and then realistic options. Ideally, they work together to let you play another round of the game.

#ai #browser #indieWeb #Internet #media #models #publishing #web

I've finally published my new personal website after 3 months of coding! I wanted to make my happy / safe space on the web, where my interests, personality, and queerness could be expressed with no bounds.

I'm extremely proud of it and would love it if you checked it out on: https://dorianbay.neocities.org/

#indieweb #neocities #winxclub #winx #Y2K #nostalgia #lgbtq #lgbtqia

From The Archive [2024]

Wie fange ich an?

A few semesters ago, I built this web index together with a friend. It gathers German initiatives for social engagement and includes filter options for various topics, locations and modes of engagement. It's the first website I made :)

wfia.de

#graphicdesign #smallweb #indieweb #activism #engagement

Hold on tight! 🚀

We're about to update the Custom CSS to bring indieweb.social the latest Bird UI update and sort out the Mastodon 4.4 gremlins.

#IndieWeb #AdminUpdate

Notes: RSS is (not) dead (yet)

🚀 PeerTube 7.2.1 is out — and we’re in it.

The latest release of #PeerTube includes a small but important fix… contributed by our team 🛠️

We had patched it on our own instance first, then sent it upstream right away, just like we aim to do with every project behind our services.

Because using open-source is great.
Contributing back is better.

Try peertube on tube.inlinestyle.it
#DeGoogle #FOSS #IndieWeb #Fediverse #BuyEU

My website, kevingimbel.de, is now running on Kirby 5.0.1!

If something breaks please let me know, I think all is working well. :)

#personalwebsite #smallweb #indieweb #kirbycms
📌 https://kevingimbel.de/status/1752224530

Hi everyone, we are aware of issues with Bird UI on indieweb.social since the latest Mastodon update.

We are looking into it!

#MastoAdmin #IndieWeb #BirdUI #Mastodon #MastoUpdate

The Internet is international. The Web is short for World Wide Web. It is perhaps only fitting that this Summer I bring Good Internet issue 1 with me on a mini-european tour...

Let's begin its journey this morning in my hometown of Fribourg, in Switzerland. Other photos will follow in the comments.

/ht @xandra 🎩

https://goodinternetmagazine.com

#goodinternet #goodinternetmagazine #indieweb #printisnotdead

❤️ Monday Memes #16 ❤️

You don’t have to stay. You don’t have to believe big tech when they tell you other alternatives aren’t worth you time or energy. That’s what they want you to believe, so they can keep profiting off of you. You might say “but everyone is still on those platforms”. You don’t have to be a follower and wait for someone else to lead you to better alternatives. You have the power to be your own leader, step outside of the box big tech has confined you to – confined us all to for so long while they stripped away our online creativity, our privacy, our freedom. The current corporate state of the web doesn’t have to be the future. You are not powerless because you are “only one person”. You are powerful because you are one person that can be brave enough to try something different from the status quo, and that in itself can create incredible change. It only takes one person to start a ripple. You can be the one to inspire others who were not brave enough to step outside of the box first. ♥ If you’ve been looking for a sign, this is your sign.

Happy Monday!

@sovereignweb @indieweb @neocities @smallweb @webdev @blog @webdesign

Mark As Read

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Source: https://sovereignweb.thecozy.cat/blog/%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f-monday-memes-16-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f/

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#Indieweb #Memes #Neocities #Nostalgia #Oldweb #Smallweb #Webdev #Nekoweb