The indieweb (specifically Neocites and Nekoweb) was a fucking mistake. Script kiddies running the fuck around making the most cookie-cutter-ass webshits with the only differences being what brightly-colored, rapidly-flashing GIFs they put up. and if you call them out on it they scream and cry that you're stifling their creativity.

#indieweb #ableism

One week early, but I'm not going to touch the computer much next week, so here we go.

A short post to celebrate 7 consecutive years of my #personalwebsite.

https://ttntm.me/blog/seven-years/

#SmallWeb #indieweb

Authors who inspired you – a writing and reply challenge/competition

I’d like to challenge you to write about the authors who inspired you. I’ll pick my top favourite answers at the end of the challenge, but I will honourable mention every reply.

How this works

Anyone can take part. There’s no charge at all (much like a dead battery). You can enter as many times as you wish. Write about all the authors you love.

You can join this challenge in one of three ways.

  1. You can post a reply right here. But you want to own your own content, right?
  2. You can answer with a blog post or web page (or even a forum post) of your own. Just link to this page and put the URL in the ping form at the bottom (unless you have automagical WebMention pings set up).
  3. You can also reply via any ActivityPub blog or social media (Mastodon, for example).

The last day of this challenge is the 30th of September. After that, I will collate all of your lovely replies and pick a “winner” or two.

If you have nowhere else to publish your entry, you can use our general chat forum.

If we get a large number of entries, I’ll write a roundup post of the entries so far. So get in sooner rather than later for the most attention.

How I pick a winner will be based on a mix of how much I enjoyed reading your writing as well as the number of comments, likes, shares, boosts, mentions, replies, and so forth.

Prompts about your author (all optional)

  • When did you first discover your author?
  • What book from your author did you read first?
  • Where did you read this book?
  • How was that first reading?
  • What about this author inspires you?
  • Why did you first pick up a book by your author?
  • What do you admire about them?
  • What’s a perfect quote from your author?
  • Which book by your author should new readers try first?

I look forward to reading your entries.

#Author #AuthorPlatform #blogging #blogs #challenge #reading #WebMention

In this short post @mark_schmeiser explains what our mission is and why we started Sociabli in the first place:

https://sociab.li/blog/2025/our-sociabli-mission/

#crossposting #IndieWeb

Buying independence beyond platforms.

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"Relying on any single platform—no matter how writer-friendly—means ceding control over the stability of our audience. Our solution is not to abandon ship, nor to retreat into isolation, but to prepare. Preparation means taking agency to build an independent presence: A home for our words no algorithm can bury, a way to stay connected even if the digital tides turn."

#indieweb #blogging

https://lamonicacurator.substack.com/p/owning-the-pen-is-a-sunday-reflectins-about-self-publishing-offering-resource-for-creating-your-own-footprint-instead-of-relying-upon-social-media-platforms-for-authors-writer-poets-and-journalists?utm_medium=ios

Even though I hate the layout of this site, the annoying trend of making every word a heading, and even though I don’t like rings very much, this could be useful to someone though! I personally like directories more but check out Webring Studio - Modern Webrings for Indie Creators https://webringstudio.com/ #WebRing #WebRings #IndieWeb

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.