If you don’t like reading, or can’t read, litterally, I have a podcast with narrations of my posts. The tip jar pays for narrators. I do not use AI for narrators. https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ #Podcast #Podcasts #Blogs #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Blog #IndieWeb

Currently indulging myself by reading about the enshittification of Substack lol.
It's sad, but predictable, how if you bring social media dynamics to a once-cosy platform of writers, things go to hell.
A well-known writer I follow who has 39k followers wrote about how things have drastically changed the last few months. Journalists, celebrities are now dominating the platform and small fry writers are no longer seen.

For me, I've seen an uptick of outrage content and reply guys and debate bros. It's sad how the moment one writes a narrative that the mob doesn't agree with, they pile on you.

This is the opposite of what Substack stood for in the past.

I will still use Substack, because I'm a practical person nor do I choose platforms based on its morality or ideals, but how it serves me. But it's sad because I remember how it was before the bigwigs tried to change it to the next Twitter.

However, this is a very good reminder for me to double, triple down on my website and remember NOT to "build a presence" and do more digital sharecropping than necessary on Substack.

#SocialMedia #Substack #Indieweb #Internet

Is there a #indiewebcarnival about #vim / #neovim?

Would you want to write about it ?

#blog #writing #fediverse #mastodon #indieweb

Yes
No
No, I use Emacs
No, I'm lost, and I use Vscode

Gonna write some html tomorrow.

You got some cool samples of html doing weird things?
Like drawings in tables ?

#html #web #indieweb

📝 What Jack Baty’s Blogging Anniversary Post Reminded Me Of
I was reading Jack Baty’s blog the other day via RSS and saw his post, “25 years of blogging”. That was three years before I started on Blogger, in the pre-Google days. I had a website before bloggin
https://mitchelltribe.com/2025/08/11/what-jack-batys-blogging-anniversary/
#Sharkey #Blogging #RSS #IndieWeb #Microblog

The Tiny Awards have celebrated the best of the small and creative web since 2023, and voting is now open (it closes September 1) to select one of the eleven nominations for the 2025 awards, here: https://tinyawards.net/vote

#TinyAwards2025 #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #TinyAwards #CreativeWebsites

Here's my entry for this month's IndieWeb carnival, hosted by @immarisabel!

I was excited for this prompt since it gives me the opportunity to talk about “color” as it relates to musical timbre, and how I like to emphasize those aspects when I write music:

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/08/indieweb-carnival-tone-colors/

#IndieWeb #Blogging #Blog #Musodon #Composer #ContemporaryMusic #ClassicalMusic #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic #NoiseMusic @contemporarymusic

I've been prevaricating recently with my #indieWeb workflow. Here I talk through my current setup, options that I have been considering, the latest update to @mauricerenck indieConnector plugin, and why I will probably end up changing (almost) nothing at all.
https://lee-perry.co.uk/notes/2025-08-11-digital-inertia

If you have a blog, what do you use for comment management?

#blog #comments #indieWeb #poll

Third party comment provider like Disqus or Github
Native comment management
Webmentions
Other (please specify in the comments)

Aha! It was Gowalla! Thanks @tantek.com #IndieWeb

I'm still trying to remember what site it was I had an account on where I did checkins but was NOT dodgeball/swarm. https://artlung.com/elsewhere/ - it may take a while before I feel like this page is complete.

In an #IndieWeb sense, my website has outlasted a whole bunch of these.

Number Go Up by Zeke Faux blends investigative journalism, social commentary, and true crime to recount some of the wildest crypto frauds – a ride I partly lived through in real time.

https://dominikhofer.me/number-go-up

#book #crypto #indieweb

Remember webrings?

I made Webring Studio to bring them back — and it’s live now. 🌐

Take a peek:

WP site → https://webringstudio.com

App → https://app.webringstudio.com

Sale details → https://webringstudio.com/app-for-sale/

Here’s the twist → my life’s shifting gears, and this indie web project is looking for a new owner.

#Webrings #IndieWeb #Fediverse #ForSale

Can I ask a small favour from anyone with a few moments to go look at a web page?

The #WebMention on this #WritingPrompts page came with pictures. I added some CSS to tidy up the images in the layout. Does it still look good on whatever you used to view it?

Page in question: https://openmentions.com/topics/art-and-literature/writing/writing-prompts/

I’m coming around to build what you need

I recently encountered a good counterpoint to my rejection of build what you need. Maybe it is okay after all.

#IndieWeb

Tuesday! Front End Study Hall! Join us for an informal space where we examine web pages and their styles, try to fix bugs and show what can be done and how to make sense of CSS and HTML+! 6pm BST/10am PDT/1pm EDT https://events.indieweb.org/2025/08/front-end-study-hall-034-UzkXwuTEzyuG #IndieWeb #WebDev

don't use AI at all? put it on ya website

https://lichendust.com/human

#smallweb #indieweb

🕸️💍 Ces derniers temps, avec le copain Arthur Pons, on parlait pas mal des webrings et de la meilleure façon d’en créé un aujourd’hui selon nous. Et comme à son habitude, il a commencé à creuser l’histoire du truc jusqu’à en faire un article pour partager ses découvertes. Et sans surprise, c’est passionnant : « L’histoire des webrings n’est peut-être pas celle que vous croyez ».

http://arthur.bebou.netlib.re/webring/index.html

#webring #CGI #WebHistory #IndieWeb #Enshittification