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I'm learning about webmentions, and figuring out an implementation that would work for my own site (https://bigraccoon.ca). I'm going to dump my thoughts here in case it will help others too.

First, what are they? It's kind of a communication protocol to let another web site know that your web site has linked to it. With webmentions, your blog could "reply" to someone else's blog, and automatically notify that blogger.

Sadly, they're not simple to implement 😔

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#PersonalSites #IndieWeb
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If you have a website or are interested in making one, why not join the IndieWeb chat? https://indieweb.org/discuss

You can join with web chat, an IRC client of your choice, Slack or Discord.

#HTMLDay2025 #IndieWeb
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@meluzzy https://michael.kjorling.se/

#IndieWeb
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If you have a personal page / blog please comment this post with a link to it.
I'd love to check them out.
I will even comment on it if you want me to.
:blobcatthumbsup:
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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

New shirt arrived just in time for HTML Day! Of course I got the cat one, too.

Grab your own: drawingsbynicole.com
#indieweb #webmasters #HTMLday
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Dream logging?

You can syndicate your dream logging to OpenMentions by linking this page and sending a WebMention ping. If you don’t use WebMention, you can send a manual ping on the page.

Also on:

#WebMention

https://syndication.isbrill.com/hint-and-tips-for-syndication/2025/08/dream-logging/
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đŸ’­ïž Techno-Parasitism | August 02, 2025 - 12:00 p.m.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/chatter/#techno-parasitism-august-02-2025-1200-pm

#technology #tech #ai #artificialintelligence #society #parasites #philosophy #indieweb #chatter #personalsites #smallweb #techbros
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The #Indieweb continues to delight. I have found #Blaugust and am casting my hat in the ring on this lovely Saturday.

https://angrybunnyman.com/some-blog-lore-and-a-little-fun-script-blaugust-the-first/
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Showcase Saturday: Ge Ricci

Geri Ricci (Angela “Ge” Ricci) has been shaping the web since the mid 1990s, carrying a genuine love for writing clean markup and making the web accessible to all. She was born in São Paulo in 1966, fell in love with writing and drawing as a child, and later moved to France to build her career in visual communication and web standards. With over 32 years of experience, she still delights in crafting web pages, teaching, and speaking about the web in places like FFConf. Very cool!

Her personal style shines through her homepage where she introduces herself as being “married to HTML,” having “CSS as her sister,” and JavaScript as her “longtime lover.” That quirky phrasing hints at a deep appreciation for the web’s foundations: solid semantics, thoughtful markup, and the clarity that a well-built page can bring.

In her essay “The Web and the Butterfly Effect”, Geri explores how tiny early decisions, like choosing clean HTML, can ripple into massive effects later on. She champions progressive enhancement, reliability, and web performance as more than buzzwords. To her, they represent ethical design, user respect, and future proofing all wrapped up in one.

Her Work section features projects born more of passion than commission: a playful redesign for Open Web Advocacy and imaginative personal web experiments like “A Cuca,” a kind of visual blog mashup that blends design, storytelling, and curiosity. What they all have in common is intention and integrity, not flashy code, but thoughtful, human centered creation.

Geri’s website is full of little gems for anyone curious about design, accessibility, or the soul of the internet. She shares some really great advice on coding for those looking to expand their skills. Take a moment to explore! There’s a lot to learn, reflect on, and enjoy. ♄

Check it out at: gericci.me

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Want your personal website, webring, or community featured on the Sovereign Web? Submit your site to be featured here!
Don’t forget to join our webring and directory!

Mark As Read

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Source: https://sovereignweb.thecozy.cat/blog/showcase-saturday-ge-ricci/

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#Feature #Indieweb #PersonalSites #Personalweb #Personalwebsite #Smallweb #Sovereignweb #Webdesign #Webdev
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What are people in the #SmallWeb #IndieWeb using for their self-hosted blogs these days? I want something to do basic thought dumps, but I've never really liked Wordpress due to it being a cumbersome over commercialised beast.
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The Small God of the Internet

It was a small announcement on an innocuous page about “spring cleaning”. The herald, some guy with the kind of name that promised he was all yours. Four sentences you only find because you were already looking for a shortcuts through life. A paragraph, tidy as a folded handkerchief, explained that a certain popular reader of feeds was retiring in four months’ time. Somewhere in the draughty back alleys of the web, a small god cleared his throat. Once he had roared every morning in a thousand offices. Now, when people clicked for their daily liturgy, the sound he made was
 domesticated.

He is called ArrEsEs by those who enjoy syllables. He wears a round orange halo with three neat ripples in it. Strictly speaking, this is an icon1, but gods are not strict about these things. He presides over the River of Posts, which is less picturesque than it sounds and runs through everyone’s house at once. His priests are librarians and tinkerers and persons who believe in putting things in order so they can be pleasantly disordered later. The temple benches are arranged in feeds. The chief sacrament is “Mark All As Read,” which is the kind of absolution that leaves you lighter and vaguely suspicious you’ve got away with something.

Guide for Constructing the Letter S from Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta or The Model Book of Calligraphy (15611596) by Georg Bocskay and Joris Hoefnagel. Original from The Getty. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

There was a time the great city-temples kept a candle lit for him right on their threshold. The Fox of Fire invited him in and called it Live Bookmarks.2 The moldable church, once a suit, then a car, then a journey, in typical style stamped “RSS” beside the address like a house number. The Explorer adopted the little orange beacon with the enthusiasm of someone who has been told there will be cake. The Singers built him a pew and handed out hymnals. You could walk into almost any shrine and find his votive lamp glowing: “The river comes this way.” Later, accountants, the men behind the man who was yours, discovered that candles are unmonetizable and, one by one, the lamps were tidied into drawers that say “More
”.

ArrEsEs has lineage. Long before he knocked on doors with a bundle of headlines, there was Old Mother Press, the iron-fingered goddess of moveable type, patron of ink that bites and paper that complains. Her creed was simple: get the word out. She marched letters into columns and columns into broadsides until villages woke up arguing the same argument.3* ArrEsEs is her great-grandchild—quick-footed, soft-spoken—who learned to carry the broadsheet to each door at once and wait politely on the mat. He still bears her family look: text in tidy rows, dates that mind their place, headlines that know how to stand up straight.**

Four months after the Announcement, the big temple shut its doors with a soft click. The congregation wandered off in small, stubborn knots and started chapels in back rooms with unhelpful names like OGRP4. ArrEsEs took to traveling again, coat collar up, suitcase full of headlines, knocking on back doors at respectable intervals. “No hurry,” he would say, leaving the bundle on the step. “When you’re ready.” The larger gods of the Square ring bells until you come out in your slippers; this one waits with the patience of bread.

Like all small gods, he thrives on little rites. He smiles when you put his name plainly on your door: a link that says feed without a blush. He approves of bogrolls blogrolls, because they are how villages point at one another and remember they are villages. He warms to OPML, which is a pilgrim’s list people swap like seed packets. He’s indulgent about the details—/rss.xml, /atom.xml, /feed, he will answer to all of them—but he purrs (quietly; dignified creature) for a cleanly formed offering and a sensible update cadence5.

His miracles are modest and cannot be tallied on a quarterly slide. He brings things in the order they happened. He does silence properly. The river arrives in the morning with twenty-seven items; you read two, save three, and let the rest drift by with the calm certainty that rivers do not take offense. He remembers what you finished. He promises tomorrow will come with its own bundle, and if you happen to be away, he will keep the stack neat and not wedge a “You Might Also Like” leaflet between your socks.

These days, though, ArrEsEs is lean at the ribs. The big estates threw dams across his tributaries and called them platforms. Good water disappeared behind walls; the rest was coaxed into ornamental channels that loop the palace and reflect only the palace. Where streams once argued cheerfully, they now mutter through sluices and churn a Gloomwheel that turns and turns without making flour—an endless thumb-crank that insists there is more, and worse, if you’ll just keep scrolling. He can drink from it, but it leaves a taste of tin and yesterday’s news.

A god’s displeasure tells you more than his blessings. His is mild. If you hide the feed, he grows thin around the edges. If you build a house that is only a façade until seven JSters haul in the furniture, he coughs and brings you only the headline and a smell of varnish6. If you replace paragraphs with an endless corridor, he develops the kind of seasickness that keeps old sailors ashore. He does not smite. He sulks, which is worse, because you may not notice until you wonder where everyone went.

Still, belief has a way of pooling in low places. In the quiet hours, the little chapels hum: home pages with kettles on, personal sites that remember how to wave, gardeners who publish their lists of other gardeners. Somewhere, a reader you’ve never met presses a small, homely button that says subscribe. The god straightens, just a touch. He is gentler than his grandmother who rattled windows with every edition, but the family gift endures. If you invite him, tomorrow he will be there, on your step, with a bundle of fresh pages and a polite cough. You can let him in, or make tea first. He’ll wait. He always has.

Heavily edited sloptraption.

  1. He maintains it’s saffron, which is what halos say when they are trying to be practical ↩
  2. The sort of feature named by a librarian, which is to say, both accurate and doomed. ↩
  3. Not to be confused with the software that borrowed her title and a fair chunk of her patience. ↩
  4. Old Google Reader People ↩
  5. On festival days he will accept serif, sans-serif, or whatever the village printer has not yet thrown at a cat.
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  6. He can drink JSON when pressed; stew remains his preference. ↩

#AI #algorithmicFeeds #blogging #blogrolls #Discworld #doomscrolling #feedReaders #GoogleReader #history #IndieWeb #internetFolklore #openWeb #OPML #personalWebsites #philosophy #POSSE #printingPress #quietWeb #RSS #smallGods #TerryPratchett #webStandards #writing
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Dear #IndieWeb people

When using h-entry (or, honestly, #RSS even), is there anything people have been coalescing towards that’s kind of a push that says “hey have another look?”

For example, imagine the concept of an RSS reader but you don’t want the reader to have to poll.

I only know of #webmentions and #micropub here but idk if either of those is appropriate for this use case?
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Make websites look like this again.

#indieweb
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My #commit messages at the outset:
-m "Adding first post. Switching to PaperMod theme."

An hour later, in folder `quickstart3`...:
-m "please god will you work now,,,"

#hugo #ssg #IndieWeb #smallWeb

3/x
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Told y'all we were cooking.

Say hello to Conjured Ink ( https://conjured.ink ): an #IndieWeb-based, #decentralized ecosystem of shops networked together to resist the kind of nonsense Itch and Steam have been dealing with.

We're a collective designing and building the software needed for folks who aren't techies to basically self host without feeling like they're self-hosting. Because you shouldn't need to be a sysadmin to free yourself from this yoke.

Join us!

#ConjuredInk
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If you were to make your first website, would you prefer to:

#PersonalWebsite #indieweb #poll

Write a bit of code
Use a drag-and-drop interface
Something else?
Not interested in having a website
I already have a website
Something else entirely
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Apparently nobody uses RSS any more? I still do on my #indieweb site-- https://cidney.org/feed.xml . It's a mixture of work and personal stuff, but do gamedev blogs and things.
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Here’s an early submission for @immarisabel’s #IndieWeb carnival this month on ‘colours’ ~ https://vhbelvadi.com/threads-paints-hex-codes
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I need a section on my website to link to cool blog posts on other people's websites

I also still need to wrap my head around stuff like webmentions. Like, independent websites have been federating for ages, and I want mine to as well (without me stubbornly implementing full-blown ActivityPub)

#IndieWeb #PersonalSites
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Tenho dividido a Internet em duas:

- Internet pequena: mĂ­dias sociais e plataformas comerciais cujo negĂłcio Ă© servir ao capitalismo de vigilĂąncia e influĂȘncia de vieses e desejos. Essa nĂŁo Ă© aberta a tudo. Nela links sĂŁo restritos e o conteĂșdo Ă© homogeneizado com morangos do amor;

- Internet grande: redes sociais como Fediverso e fóruns, revistas e jornais, blogs, podcasts, malas diretas, IRC e uma vastidão de regiÔes

#Internet #IndieWeb #SociaMedia #RedesSocias