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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://mstdn.social/@11tyCMS/115412753114767388",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Metadata editing? Completed it, mate \ud83d\ude0c . Shaping up very nicely indeed. Really looking forward to writing the next update post.</p><p>Next up? Either the site dashboard or the ability to add new collections I think. The new post menu also needs an overhaul so- we\u2019ll have to see what takes my fancy. <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/11tyCMS\">#<span>11tyCMS</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/11ty\">#<span>11ty</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Metadata editing? Completed it, mate \ud83d\ude0c . Shaping up very nicely indeed. Really looking forward to writing the next update post.\n\nNext up? Either the site dashboard or the ability to add new collections I think. The new post menu also needs an overhaul so- we\u2019ll have to see what takes my fancy. #11tyCMS #11ty #indieweb"
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    "published": "2025-10-21T15:00:54+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://post.lurk.org/@pixouls/115413363873338576",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Tomorrow <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://jawns.club/@ragman\">@<span>ragman</span></a></span> will be running this awesome workshop for \u201cmaking your first website\u201d at <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://post.lurk.org/@iffybooks\">@<span>iffybooks</span></a></span>. I\u2019ll be there to hang out as well. Looking forward to seeing folx there :)  </p><p><a href=\"https://iffybooks.net/event/first-website-oct-22/\"><span>https://</span><span>iffybooks.net/event/first-webs</span><span>ite-oct-22/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://post.lurk.org/tags/HTML\">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href=\"https://post.lurk.org/tags/HTMLDay\">#<span>HTMLDay</span></a> <a href=\"https://post.lurk.org/tags/indieWeb\">#<span>indieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://post.lurk.org/tags/smolWeb\">#<span>smolWeb</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://jawns.club/@ragman\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://post.lurk.org/@iffybooks\"></a>",
        "text": "Tomorrow @ragman will be running this awesome workshop for \u201cmaking your first website\u201d at @iffybooks. I\u2019ll be there to hang out as well. Looking forward to seeing folx there :)  \n\nhttps://iffybooks.net/event/first-website-oct-22/\n\n#HTML #HTMLDay #indieWeb #smolWeb"
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    "published": "2025-10-21T17:36:14+00:00",
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        "html": "<p>New on the blog: <a href=\"https://theresmiling.eu/blog/2025/10/cleaning-buddies\">The one where I talk about cleaning buddies</a><span> and how to find them. Kind of.<br />I had this one pretty much written up for a while, and when I read about errand hangs last week or so here in the fedi I wanted to finish it and publish it. Because seeking company while doing housework, or any other kind of work, is </span><i>not</i><span> a failure!<br /><br /></span><a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/personalBlog\">#personalBlog</a> <a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/blog\">#blog</a> <a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/personalWebsite\">#personalWebsite</a> <a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/personalWeb\">#personalWeb</a> <a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/indieWeb\">#indieWeb</a> <a href=\"https://ibe.social/tags/smallWeb\">#smallWeb</a></p>",
        "text": "New on the blog: The one where I talk about cleaning buddies and how to find them. Kind of.\nI had this one pretty much written up for a while, and when I read about errand hangs last week or so here in the fedi I wanted to finish it and publish it. Because seeking company while doing housework, or any other kind of work, is not a failure!\n\n#personalBlog #blog #personalWebsite #personalWeb #indieWeb #smallWeb"
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    "published": "2025-10-21T14:00:17+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
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    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
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        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://mas.to/@lylo/115408687543340263",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Ok, long day but it's live (for me only \ud83d\ude0a). Reworked everything on the Pagecord public blogs, and now enabled custom CSS for my blog and made some tweaks.</p><p>What do you think to my new theme and design?</p><p><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/bloggers\">#<span>bloggers</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/buildinpublic\">#<span>buildinpublic</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://olly.pagecord.com/experimenting-with-custom-css-in-pagecord\"><span>https://</span><span>olly.pagecord.com/experimentin</span><span>g-with-custom-css-in-pagecord</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Ok, long day but it's live (for me only \ud83d\ude0a). Reworked everything on the Pagecord public blogs, and now enabled custom CSS for my blog and made some tweaks.\n\nWhat do you think to my new theme and design?\n\n#blogging #bloggers #indieweb #buildinpublic \n\nhttps://olly.pagecord.com/experimenting-with-custom-css-in-pagecord"
    },
    "published": "2025-10-20T21:46:59+00:00",
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    "_id": "46289867",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://mas.to/@lylo/115407516545999161",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Really chuffed with this major new feature for Pagecord. Please consider signing up and kicking the tyres! </p><p>It's literally free, and all the fancy features (analytics, custom domains, email subscriptions) only cost $29/yr. Get it while it's hot!</p><p><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/opensource\">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/buildinpublic\">#<span>buildinpublic</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://blog.pagecord.com/create-a-custom-home-page-for-your-pagecord-blog\"><span>https://</span><span>blog.pagecord.com/create-a-cus</span><span>tom-home-page-for-your-pagecord-blog</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Really chuffed with this major new feature for Pagecord. Please consider signing up and kicking the tyres! \n\nIt's literally free, and all the fancy features (analytics, custom domains, email subscriptions) only cost $29/yr. Get it while it's hot!\n\n#blogging #opensource #buildinpublic #indieweb \n\nhttps://blog.pagecord.com/create-a-custom-home-page-for-your-pagecord-blog"
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    "published": "2025-10-20T16:49:11+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@inneraxislab/115406199596683257",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Funny, how astrologers talk about cosmic destiny but skip Earth, climate and ecology. </p><p>Btw. I attended my first class on herb cultivation at university! I'm excited \ud83d\ude0d\ud83c\udf3f</p><p>No one has asked me about the topic of my thesis yet, but I already have one in mind: \"hydroponic herb growing at home\".</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/astrology\">#<span>astrology</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/hydroponics\">#<span>hydroponics</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/herbs\">#<span>herbs</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://inneraxislab.neocities.org/astrology-hydroponics-and-ecology\"><span>https://</span><span>inneraxislab.neocities.org/ast</span><span>rology-hydroponics-and-ecology</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Funny, how astrologers talk about cosmic destiny but skip Earth, climate and ecology. \n\nBtw. I attended my first class on herb cultivation at university! I'm excited \ud83d\ude0d\ud83c\udf3f\n\nNo one has asked me about the topic of my thesis yet, but I already have one in mind: \"hydroponic herb growing at home\".\n\n#astrology #indieweb #hydroponics #herbs \n\nhttps://inneraxislab.neocities.org/astrology-hydroponics-and-ecology"
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    "published": "2025-10-20T11:14:16+00:00",
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    "_source": "8007",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.lol/@flamed/115405028382467115",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\ud83d\udcdd New Post: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022) </p><p>Catching up on TV shows.</p><p>\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https://flamedfury.com/posts/cyberpunk-edgerunners-2022/\"><span>https://</span><span>flamedfury.com/posts/cyberpunk</span><span>-edgerunners-2022/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Media\">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Blogging\">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Personalweb\">#<span>Personalweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\ud83d\udcdd New Post: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022) \n\nCatching up on TV shows.\n\n\ud83d\udd25 https://flamedfury.com/posts/cyberpunk-edgerunners-2022/\n\n#Indieweb #Media #Blogging #Personalweb"
    },
    "published": "2025-10-20T06:16:24+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "46282647",
    "_source": "8007",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.lol/@flamed/115405030141271155",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\ud83d\udd16 Bookmarked: the internet's too fast <a href=\"https://junejuice.bearblog.dev/the-internets-too-fast/\"><span>https://</span><span>junejuice.bearblog.dev/the-int</span><span>ernets-too-fast/</span></a></p><p>Has the pace of the internet become so fast that it\u2019s overwhelming?</p><p>\ud83d\udd25 Read more: <a href=\"https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/the-internets-too-fast/\"><span>https://</span><span>flamedfury.com/bookmarks/the-i</span><span>nternets-too-fast/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Smallweb\">#<span>Smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Culture\">#<span>Culture</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\ud83d\udd16 Bookmarked: the internet's too fast https://junejuice.bearblog.dev/the-internets-too-fast/\n\nHas the pace of the internet become so fast that it\u2019s overwhelming?\n\n\ud83d\udd25 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/the-internets-too-fast/\n\n#Indieweb #Smallweb #Culture"
    },
    "published": "2025-10-20T06:16:51+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "46282492",
    "_source": "8007",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/115404814474479518",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>If you liked Mortified spotlight, my feed URL is <a href=\"https://sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml\"><span>https://</span><span>sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/RSS\">#<span>RSS</span></a> <a href=\"https://caneandable.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "If you liked Mortified spotlight, my feed URL is https://sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml #RSS #IndieWeb"
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    "published": "2025-10-20T05:22:00+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@z1nz0l1n/115401463459424879",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>This week, i\u2019ve read a coffee-adjacent magazine which might my best read of the year. (And i wrote an alphabetical review of alphabetical diaries.) <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/weeknotes\">#<span>weeknotes</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://z1nz0l1n.com/25w42/\"><span>https://</span><span>z1nz0l1n.com/25w42/</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "This week, i\u2019ve read a coffee-adjacent magazine which might my best read of the year. (And i wrote an alphabetical review of alphabetical diaries.) #weeknotes #IndieWeb https://z1nz0l1n.com/25w42/"
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    "published": "2025-10-19T15:09:48+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://scicomm.xyz/@ratika/115401921338724772",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Taking a break from Inktober over the Diwali weekend. Here's a poem I wrote some months ago:</p><p><a href=\"https://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/patte-ki-abhilasha/\"><span>https://</span><span>chavanniclass.wordpress.com/20</span><span>25/10/19/patte-ki-abhilasha/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/poetry\">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/hindi\">#<span>hindi</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://scicomm.xyz/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Taking a break from Inktober over the Diwali weekend. Here's a poem I wrote some months ago:\n\nhttps://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/patte-ki-abhilasha/\n\n#poetry #hindi #blog #blogging #IndieWeb"
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    "published": "2025-10-19T17:06:15+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "46278734",
    "_source": "8007",
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@ngate/115401394163265078",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Ah yes, another groundbreaking revelation: websites are indeed for humans, not the squirrels that secretly run the internet. \ud83d\udc3f\ufe0f The author bravely navigates through a maze of cat videos and AI paranoia, pondering the mysteries of Instagram while accidentally stumbling upon the obvious. \ud83d\ude44 So avant-garde, so <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a>. \ud83c\udf10<br /><a href=\"https://marcus-obst.de/blog/websites-are-for-humans\"><span>https://</span><span>marcus-obst.de/blog/websites-a</span><span>re-for-humans</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/webdesign\">#<span>webdesign</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/humansfirst\">#<span>humansfirst</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/AIparanoia\">#<span>AIparanoia</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/catvideos\">#<span>catvideos</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews\">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated\">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Ah yes, another groundbreaking revelation: websites are indeed for humans, not the squirrels that secretly run the internet. \ud83d\udc3f\ufe0f The author bravely navigates through a maze of cat videos and AI paranoia, pondering the mysteries of Instagram while accidentally stumbling upon the obvious. \ud83d\ude44 So avant-garde, so #IndieWeb. \ud83c\udf10\nhttps://marcus-obst.de/blog/websites-are-for-humans #webdesign #humansfirst #AIparanoia #catvideos #HackerNews #ngated"
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    "published": "2025-10-19T14:52:11+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "46277912",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
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        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
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    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@inneraxislab/115401161244703620",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>What is <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/astrology\">#<span>astrology</span></a> ?</p><p>Btw: I want to show off my website, which I am building in HTML \ud83d\ude0d</p><p>I discovered places where people are trying to bring back the vibe of the old internet. Without monetization. With being creative. <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/neocities\">#<span>neocities</span></a> is one of them. <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://inneraxislab.neocities.org/what-is-astrology\"><span>https://</span><span>inneraxislab.neocities.org/wha</span><span>t-is-astrology</span></a></p>",
        "text": "What is #astrology ?\n\nBtw: I want to show off my website, which I am building in HTML \ud83d\ude0d\n\nI discovered places where people are trying to bring back the vibe of the old internet. Without monetization. With being creative. #neocities is one of them. #indieweb\n\nhttps://inneraxislab.neocities.org/what-is-astrology"
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    "published": "2025-10-19T13:52:57+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
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fluffy rambles: IndieRadio progress: Canimus

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    "published": "2025-10-18T23:55:10-07:00",
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        "html": "<p>Remember that <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11155-A-fair-independent-streaming-platform\">idea I came up with a couple months ago</a> and then rambled about a bunch and then stopped talking about it?</p><p>I finally had the spoons to write a draft of what I hope will eventually become a specification, which I am (for now) calling <a href=\"https://github.com/PlaidWeb/Canimus\">Canimus</a>, after the Latin word for \u201c<a href=\"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cano\">we sing</a>.\u201d It also has a few other meanings, such as \u201cwe play an instrument,\u201d \u201cwe prophesize,\u201d and \u201cwe hoot.\u201d</p><p>Or, more broadly, \u201cwe make music.\u201d</p>\n\n\n<p>This is quite a bit different than my original vague protocol \u201cspec,\u201d as conversations with a bunch of other folks got me thinking about stuff. I especially want to thank <a href=\"https://github.com/simonv3\">Simon</a>, one of the developers of <a href=\"https://mirlo.space/\">Mirlo</a>, who has kept me motivated on the project and who asked a few of the right questions to get me thinking about some of the hairier stuff.</p><p>And of course, I always have to thank <a href=\"https://jamey.thesharps.us/\">Jamey Sharp</a>, who was instrumental in improving my understanding of how things like paginations and deletions/revocations should work, particularly from our prior conversations about RFCs <a href=\"https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5005.txt\">5005</a> and <a href=\"https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6721\">6721</a> which were the direct inspiration for those facets.</p><p>I also decided to write a bit more about how the consumers of the feeds might interact with it, a bit more on how private collections might work, and an <em>extremely</em> rough sketch of how some payment strategies might be implemented. That last topic alone could be the source of a dozen fully-fledged whitepapers.</p><p>There is still a <em>lot</em> to do on this. Many sections could be rewritten for clarity, and there could be much better examples. Having everything in a single big <code>README.md</code> is probably not great, either.</p><p>I\u2019d really like to get in discussion with some of the existing open streaming initiatives, like <a href=\"https://open.audio/\">Funkwhale</a>, <a href=\"https://bandwagon.fm/\">Bandwagon.fm</a>, and <a href=\"https://theindiebeat.fm/\">TheIndieBeat</a>, and see if there\u2019s any interest in them supporting the protocol, or any issues they have with it that could be shaken out.</p><p>To that end, I\u2019ve started a thread for it on <a href=\"https://the.socialmusic.network/\">The Social Music Network</a>, which is a great gathering place where a lot of folks are working on these projects. I think of it as being \u201cIndieWeb, but for Spotify.\u201d I\u2019m hoping that a lot of the discussion will take place there, and it\u2019s definitely a place where folks should join if they want to talk about the future of independent music on the Internet.</p><p>My own next step is to completely rewrite the JSON feed for <a href=\"https://sockpuppet.band/\">my music website</a> now that I have a better idea of how it should be shaped. Building an actual implementation will probably help me to shake out some of the details.</p><p>Anyway, now that this is published in a public, editable space, I hope others will join in with their own edits and pull requests so that we can make something incredible together.</p><h3><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/10464-IndieRadio-progress-Canimus#10464_h3_1_Some-ancillary-thoughts-about-pr\"></a>Some ancillary thoughts about protocol stuff</h3><p>Protocol-wise, I am primarily leaning towards using JSON. HTML+mf2 makes a certain amount of sense for the same reasons IndieWeb prefers it (namely that there\u2019s no need for \u201can API\u201d when the data is just embedded in the webpage that it\u2019s about, with no need for ancillary discovery), but most of the platforms which are interested in supporting this are all implemented as SPAs and so they aren\u2019t actually rendering HTML in a way that it can be used as an API, so there\u2019s going to have to be some sort of explicit API anyway, and JSON is a lot easier for implementors to reason around. It does mean that there\u2019s now a need for actual API discovery, but two mechanisms are briefly described in the current spec.</p><p>Also, the current mf2 audio vocabulary is\u2026 limited, at best, and I feel like mf2 necessarily requires way too much semantic interpretation on the part of the consumer/client. See how <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/post-type-discovery\">IndieWeb post type discovery</a> works and then add the myriad complications with things like albums, compilations, playlists, singles, and so much else\u2026 I just wanted a clean slate that is shaped like how music collections actually work.</p><p>I\u2019ll continue to support mf2 <a href=\"https://pin13.net/mf2/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsockpuppet.band%2Falbum%2Ftransitions\">on my own website</a>, of course, but I don\u2019t expect that to ever actually be useful in the big picture. But it could still be nice as a means for a client implementor to add more fine-grained content discovery, or for things like <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/social_reader\">social readers</a> to embed players for newly-published content even if it doesn\u2019t go into a collection.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/10464-IndieRadio-progress-Canimus#comments\">comments</a></p>\n\n        \n        <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/?id=10464&amp;tag=music\">#music</a>\n        \n        <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/?id=10464&amp;tag=streaming\">#streaming</a>\n        \n        <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/?id=10464&amp;tag=indieradio\">#IndieRadio</a>",
        "text": "Remember that idea I came up with a couple months ago and then rambled about a bunch and then stopped talking about it?\n\nI finally had the spoons to write a draft of what I hope will eventually become a specification, which I am (for now) calling Canimus, after the Latin word for \u201cwe sing.\u201d It also has a few other meanings, such as \u201cwe play an instrument,\u201d \u201cwe prophesize,\u201d and \u201cwe hoot.\u201d\n\nOr, more broadly, \u201cwe make music.\u201d\n\n\nThis is quite a bit different than my original vague protocol \u201cspec,\u201d as conversations with a bunch of other folks got me thinking about stuff. I especially want to thank Simon, one of the developers of Mirlo, who has kept me motivated on the project and who asked a few of the right questions to get me thinking about some of the hairier stuff.\n\nAnd of course, I always have to thank Jamey Sharp, who was instrumental in improving my understanding of how things like paginations and deletions/revocations should work, particularly from our prior conversations about RFCs 5005 and 6721 which were the direct inspiration for those facets.\n\nI also decided to write a bit more about how the consumers of the feeds might interact with it, a bit more on how private collections might work, and an extremely rough sketch of how some payment strategies might be implemented. That last topic alone could be the source of a dozen fully-fledged whitepapers.\n\nThere is still a lot to do on this. Many sections could be rewritten for clarity, and there could be much better examples. Having everything in a single big README.md is probably not great, either.\n\nI\u2019d really like to get in discussion with some of the existing open streaming initiatives, like Funkwhale, Bandwagon.fm, and TheIndieBeat, and see if there\u2019s any interest in them supporting the protocol, or any issues they have with it that could be shaken out.\n\nTo that end, I\u2019ve started a thread for it on The Social Music Network, which is a great gathering place where a lot of folks are working on these projects. I think of it as being \u201cIndieWeb, but for Spotify.\u201d I\u2019m hoping that a lot of the discussion will take place there, and it\u2019s definitely a place where folks should join if they want to talk about the future of independent music on the Internet.\n\nMy own next step is to completely rewrite the JSON feed for my music website now that I have a better idea of how it should be shaped. Building an actual implementation will probably help me to shake out some of the details.\n\nAnyway, now that this is published in a public, editable space, I hope others will join in with their own edits and pull requests so that we can make something incredible together.Some ancillary thoughts about protocol stuffProtocol-wise, I am primarily leaning towards using JSON. HTML+mf2 makes a certain amount of sense for the same reasons IndieWeb prefers it (namely that there\u2019s no need for \u201can API\u201d when the data is just embedded in the webpage that it\u2019s about, with no need for ancillary discovery), but most of the platforms which are interested in supporting this are all implemented as SPAs and so they aren\u2019t actually rendering HTML in a way that it can be used as an API, so there\u2019s going to have to be some sort of explicit API anyway, and JSON is a lot easier for implementors to reason around. It does mean that there\u2019s now a need for actual API discovery, but two mechanisms are briefly described in the current spec.\n\nAlso, the current mf2 audio vocabulary is\u2026 limited, at best, and I feel like mf2 necessarily requires way too much semantic interpretation on the part of the consumer/client. See how IndieWeb post type discovery works and then add the myriad complications with things like albums, compilations, playlists, singles, and so much else\u2026 I just wanted a clean slate that is shaped like how music collections actually work.\n\nI\u2019ll continue to support mf2 on my own website, of course, but I don\u2019t expect that to ever actually be useful in the big picture. But it could still be nice as a means for a client implementor to add more fine-grained content discovery, or for things like social readers to embed players for newly-published content even if it doesn\u2019t go into a collection.\n\ncomments\n\n        \n        #music\n        \n        #streaming\n        \n        #IndieRadio"
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        "html": "<p>Third time in a week my website boykisser.nl experiencing downtime.<br />Next time i will consider moving hosts.<br /><a href=\"https://meow.social/tags/website\">#<span>website</span></a> <a href=\"https://meow.social/tags/forum\">#<span>forum</span></a> <a href=\"https://meow.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://meow.social/tags/community\">#<span>community</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Third time in a week my website boykisser.nl experiencing downtime.\nNext time i will consider moving hosts.\n#website #forum #indieweb #community"
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    "url": "https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/115399367520398851",
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        "html": "<p>The website of <a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> Club <a href=\"https://fantastic.earth/tags/Bangalore\">#<span>Bangalore</span></a> is finally up at <a href=\"https://blr.indiewebclub.org\"><span>https://</span><span>blr.indiewebclub.org</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "The website of #IndieWeb Club #Bangalore is finally up at https://blr.indiewebclub.org"
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        "html": "<p>Project Gutenberg has an AI bookshelf that provides several stories, novellas, and novels that explore AI's potential impacts on humanity.</p><p><a href=\"https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/10/18/gutenbergs-ai-bookshelf/\"><span>https://</span><span>readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025</span><span>/10/18/gutenbergs-ai-bookshelf/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/technology\">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/tech\">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/reading\">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/books\">#<span>books</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon\">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/ai\">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/artificialintelligence\">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/projectgutenberg\">#<span>projectgutenberg</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Project Gutenberg has an AI bookshelf that provides several stories, novellas, and novels that explore AI's potential impacts on humanity.\n\nhttps://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/10/18/gutenbergs-ai-bookshelf/\n\n#technology #tech #reading #books #bookstodon #ai #artificialintelligence #projectgutenberg #indieweb #smallweb"
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    "url": "https://dice.camp/@thoughtpunks/115398781821027199",
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        "html": "<p>For real, I love my <a href=\"https://dice.camp/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> &amp; <a href=\"https://dice.camp/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> dev friends on <a href=\"https://dice.camp/tags/Mastodon\">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> and throughout the <a href=\"https://dice.camp/tags/Fediverse\">#<span>Fediverse</span></a>. Y'all are great. I can flip in a chat or post about some fiddly fedi thing, even vulgar as hell. Someone will usually be like oh yeah, that's a pain try this or that instead. Or even when it's you're not supposed to do that or do it that way, lot of times someone suggests a kludge to hack it into place. </p><p>Dealing with <a href=\"https://dice.camp/tags/ATProto\">#<span>ATProto</span></a> / <a href=\"https://dice.camp/tags/ATProtocol\">#<span>ATProtocol</span></a> <a href=\"https://dice.camp/tags/Bluesky\">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> people gives me a whole new appreciation.</p>",
        "text": "For real, I love my #ActivityPub & #IndieWeb dev friends on #Mastodon and throughout the #Fediverse. Y'all are great. I can flip in a chat or post about some fiddly fedi thing, even vulgar as hell. Someone will usually be like oh yeah, that's a pain try this or that instead. Or even when it's you're not supposed to do that or do it that way, lot of times someone suggests a kludge to hack it into place. \n\nDealing with #ATProto / #ATProtocol #Bluesky people gives me a whole new appreciation."
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    "url": "https://pony.social/@axxuy/115398737801770412",
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        "html": "<p>Who wants some rambling about expensive hobbies? Blame <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@joel\">@<span>joel</span></a></span> and <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@kev\">@<span>kev</span></a></span> for this.</p><p><a href=\"https://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/hobby-tiers/\"><span>https://</span><span>axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/hobb</span><span>y-tiers/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/Blog\">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/Blogging\">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/Blogpost\">#<span>Blogpost</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/PersonalWebsite\">#<span>PersonalWebsite</span></a> <a href=\"https://pony.social/tags/PersonalBlog\">#<span>PersonalBlog</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@joel\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@kev\"></a>",
        "text": "Who wants some rambling about expensive hobbies? Blame @joel and @kev for this.\n\nhttps://axxuy.xyz/blog/posts/2025/hobby-tiers/\n\n#Blog #Blogging #Blogpost #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #PersonalBlog"
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    "url": "https://cyberplace.social/@khleedril/115396922774848685",
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        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@reiver\">@<span>reiver</span></a></span> For the <a href=\"https://cyberplace.social/tags/posse\">#<span>posse</span></a> amongst us, my service should you wish to send a private message to me is <a href=\"https://khleedril.org/dmbcs/contact\"><span>https://</span><span>khleedril.org/dmbcs/contact</span><span></span></a>.</p><p><a href=\"https://cyberplace.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@reiver\"></a>",
        "text": "@reiver For the #posse amongst us, my service should you wish to send a private message to me is https://khleedril.org/dmbcs/contact.\n\n#indieweb"
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