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#IndieWeb folks - I am only just getting into webmentions, and I am wondering a bit about etiquette.

Are webmentions mainly for blog posts, or would you send a mention if you link out from a note or permanent page?

Are they for any time you link to another site at all, even if it's just in passing?

So I thought I'd ask all of you: when do you send webmentions?
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I always thought it was odd that everything the #IndieWeb org and #IndieWebSocial guys seemed to advocate for had to do with making it easier for bots to identify you.

Then when they celebrated #Threads adopting rel=me links I knew what their game was.

#Meta #SocialWebFoundation

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower
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Hi, fedi! I'm crawling out of my hermit hole to share my new app, TumblBee, with you all 🐝

https://lilacpixel.itch.io/tumblbee

TumblBee is a pay-what-you-want cross-platform app for exporting your original #Tumblr posts (and pages) to Markdown or HTML. Back up your content and browse it locally, or export to Markdown and drop your posts into your favorite static site generator. (There's even a guide to exporting for Obsidian, if that's your thing.)

If you decide to give it a try, I'd love to hear about it! Boosts are, as always, hugely appreciated 💕 :boost_requested: Thanks so much!

#software #tools #IndieDev #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #blogging #backup #markdown
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One more typewriter post, for anyone who's interest I've piqued.

https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/soyouwantatypewriter/

#Blog #Blogging #Blogpost #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #PersonalBlog #Blaugust #Blaugust2025 #typewriter
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Progress update on my #XSLT #SVG #sparkline generator

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-sparklines-xslt/

Another step in my path to revitalize usage of XSLT on the web. And before you ask, no, this is not to spite the #WHATWG and their #XML-aversive #JavaScript brainrot, it's something I've wanted to do for years, as documented by my previous posts on the subject.

However, since the corporate-controlled WHATWG is using metrics as excuse to boycott the #openWeb and #indieWeb, it becomes doubly important to do this now.
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[🗞️Veille] This page is under construction - localghost https://localghost.dev/blog/this-page-is-under-construction/
Une ode Ă  l'indieweb crĂŠatif et aux sites personnels
#blogging #indieweb 🗃️Toute ma veille commentée https://veille.louisderrac.com
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I'm still developing a little CMS for the IndieWeb in Rust. You could help me by filling out this little survey: https://heyform.jak2k.eu/form/z40kq9sh

#indieweb #rust #poll #survey #cms
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"My motivation for creating Unplatform is simple. Once upon a time, I, too, was a digital defeatist that believed that the internet was beyond saving, and that Silicon Valley had achieved total control over the digital world. It's been a deeply humbling and extremely inspiring experience to be proven wrong - and not only do I no longer believe that the internet is a lost cause, I believe there's never been a better time to take it back.

But it won't be easy. Silicon Valley is holding our communities, careers, and conciousnesses hostage. They lured us onto their platforms over the course of 20 years with the promise of access and convenience, and now that they've gone completely mask off, they're betting on the idea that we've got too much invested in them to walk away. Unplatform is here to help you prove them wrong."

unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.com/

#Unplatform #FromTheSuperhighway #IndieWeb #SocialMedia #SiliconValley
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The web’s kaleidoscopic tomorrows

My proposition is to imagine new futures (plural) for the web. The plural is essential. The more perspectives and stories and ideas, the more ideas that are out there that may inspire discussions between — preceding the creation of new communities and visions and technologies by — makers, writers, artists, technologists, journalists, and users. Indeed, if I have learned anything about making things, it’s that inspiration comes from many, many places, not just one.

With every new thing we make – and with every new communication strategy we try, recognising that there is (not yet) one universally resonant argument for why an indie web is necessary – we can both add to and help people realise the potential of the web.

Futures for the web | James’ Coffee Blog

I think of the web as the multi-verse. You don’t even need everyone to buy into your version of the web. However, I want to lend some of my thoughts into what James is considering here. I like that they are thinking about imbibing the web platform with additional capabilities. Empower the web with additional primitives around people, collaboration etc that allows for easier path to the people trying similar things after you. To me, that’s what made the web organic, empowering and continue to be relevant across every single computing shift.

After the last decade, where platforms have emerged as a core constituent of the web on which many rely, it may feel like things cannot change. That the giants are so big that there is no other way. Yet, to give into this feeling – that things can’t change – is not necessary. It is the way it is is not true on the web. We can make change. It’s your web.

…

Things can be different.

The next decade of the web

It’s the plurality of the web that we must accept, applaud and encourage. I am a big believer in the small, IndieWeb. However, that doesn’t mean that something like social media shouldn’t exist on the web.

I am not a big fan of ads peppering a website. However, for years, I am a patron to Daring Fireball, where ads are tasteful and integrated in a way that doesn’t hurt the experience of reading. This also doesn’t mean that ad-baits shouldn’t exist on the web.

We must trust that there will always be novel ways to hook people’s interest and once that novel way is out, it’s going to be adopted by well intentioned and not-well intentioned purposes. We have to trust the human spirit and community that good shall prevail over bad. There will be innovation when things go overboard on one side. Most people didn’t know about ad-blockers ten years ago. Today, majority of the websites have blockers on ad-blockers because people decided enough’s enough.

The web is the one last remaining platform where you can both carve your niche and own your distribution. However, the web itself isn’t fully permission less. It’s important that more people participate in the building of the capabilities of the web platform, which today, is dominated by the few that make browser-engines – Google, Mozilla, Apple. More regular people representation needs to happen. Here again, I wish I could lead by example. I need to think more deeply about that.

#blogging #browser #indieWeb #innovation #tech #w3c #web #webPlatform
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I made a small thing that's been on my mind for a while, I'd appreciate any boost for my little bit of #indieweb https://akpcep.com/eightings/
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Build what you need?

I do not wholly subscribe to the mantra of “build what you need”. To an extent, yes, make the thing you want. Only, stop doing that as soon as someone invents a less square wheel than yours. Use their wheel instead.

See also: Make what you need might be all wrong for the IndieWeb’s future

#buidWhatYouNeed #code #dev #ethicalHacking #IndieWeb #notInventedHere #reinventTheSquareWheel
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Today my blog turns seventeen years old, and my website that it is part of is now twenty-nine years old

https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/29-years-of-promises-and-give-me-more

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb
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Opened up a gallery on my site. So far, it's just backfilling from @ross@pics.rossabaker.com, but it will unify older archives. Apps and networks come and go, but the personal site endures.

https://rossabaker.com/gallery/

#IndieWeb #OwnYourData
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let's party like it's 1999. 🎉 #indieWeb
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This is now the official account for #11tyCMS updates! More updates to come. We'll be posting here in the coming weeks 👀 #11ty #IndieWeb
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Finally, an update to my now page, including a listen brainz widget and a bookwyrm widget, yay open sauce

Content warning for food mention

https://www.pixouls.xyz/now.html

#html #htmlEnergy #personalSite #personalWebsite #indieWeb
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All the typos in this were for sure 100% intentional to prove my point haha :ajlying:

https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/finaldraft/

#Blog #Blogging #Blogpost #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #PersonalBlog #Blaugust #Blaugust2025 #typewriter
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i spent a while making this @gohugoio theme and even tho it may have some rough edges codewise, i think it's headed in the right direction:

https://betterwebsites.dev/

#betterwebsites #blog #blogging #webdev #indieweb
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My Refrigerator Thinks I’m in a Cult. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250808/ #Tech #SmartHome #Humor #Technology #Blogs #Blog #IndieWeb
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Make what you need might be all wrong for the IndieWeb’s future

IndieWeb has this idea of “scratch your own itch” or “make what you need“. It’s okay in as far as it goes, but I (and I said this at great length before) feel it is wholly incomplete over simple, and, therefore, wrong.

I get the idea. If I want a cheese sandwich, I should go into the kitchen and make myself a cheese sandwich. Fine. Cool. But I’m not making what I need – I’m assembling the prefabricated parts.

I did not first have to make a bread knife, and a butter knife, and a plate, and a chopping board. I did not have to bake the bread. I did not have to spend a year or two maturing milk into cheese. I did not build the kitchen or the worktops. In fact, I did not build what I needed at all. I acquired well-made things I needed so that when the time came, I could put the cheese and the bread together in a pleasing shape.

In the same way, “make what you need” works well when IndieWeb is a frontier wild west of ideas. Where the only ones making the new tools are the ones using those tools and only because those were the only nerds who could make the things.

We no longer live in the wild west. We live in towns. We go to supermarkets and order pizza delivered to our door.

I get that dogfooding is the best way to make sure the tools available are the best they can be. I’m not a novice at this. What I am saying is that it is time we started putting together pre-baked bread, already matured cheese, and a sharp knife that works out of the box.

Early adopters can and should make their own. That’s the innovation scale and space. But there has to come a time when we start embracing pre-sliced bread, cheese someone else made, and all that, without forcing everyone to fire up the forge because you want a sandwich.

If we want indieweb ideas to go from niche coders doing niche coder things, we need something the next wave of later-early adopters can get to grips with. In such an environment, “make what you need” is not good enough. It has to give way to “make what those around you need” or “make something you can use, but your mum could use too”.

One example of “make what you need” screwing the pooch is the number of websites that stopped using WebMention because of spam. WebMention should, by its nature, be nearly spam-proof. I would hazard a guess that the roll-your-own WebMention did not follow the step where it confirms the link that forms the core mention.

When WebMention runs in WordPress, the mention fails if the link is not there. Then the mention, if from an unrecognised blog, is held in a queue to be manually checked. These steps mean that no spam makes it into my blog via WebMention. Via local comments – yeah, loads of spam; but WebMention – never.

There is an expression in developer circles which is a warning against reinventing the square wheel. By rolling their own, some devs will make an objectively worse version. There might be better versions too; its a wild world out there. The point is, though, rather than reinventing the wheel for each and every website, some battle-hardened, mature, production-ready, tested and true tools and libraries might offer something of an advantage.

That’s the power of Open Source development. One person makes a thing; a bunch of people use the thing; someone has an idea for a new feature and adds it. I think IndieWeb needs that too. At the very least, “make what you need” should become “adapt what you need; reuse when possible”.

Check out my longer form post: Let’s talk about making IndieWeb weirder and easier

#IndieWeb #makeWhatYouNeed #rollYourOwn