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Plain text, threaded conversations.
Ideas shared freely, no flashy UI — just thoughtful messages.
Author references propagated over network.
Small, readable, decentralized — lessons in simplicity and clarity.
Echoes today in IndieWeb: own your content, control your identity.

#Usenet #TextCulture #RetroInternet #ASCII #Hackers #FediTech #DigitalNostalgia #IndieWeb

🔖 Bookmarked: My first months in cyberspace https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/10/15/1995-internet/

Phil Gyford remembers the excitement and optimism of being online in 1995.

🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/my-first-months-in-cyberspace/

#Indieweb #Webhistory #Nostalgia #Culture

🔖 Bookmarked: The psychological cost of having an RSS feed https://refp.se/articles/the-weight-of-an-rss-feed

Filip explores the anxiety that comes with writing a blog knowing it has an RSS feed.

🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/the-psychological-cost-of-having-an-rss-feed/

#Indieweb #Personalweb #Blogging #Smallweb

Would my website and I be more relatable if you knew my first name?

#indieweb #personalweb

We have the beginnings of a welcome wizard 👀 … This is shaping up SO well!

It’s not yet functional, but the “stepping system” works #11tyCMS #11ty #indieweb

New blog post: “Embedding Bandcamp Tracks”

https://blog.kizu.dev/embedding-bandcamp-tracks/

A long time ago, back in LiveJournal, sometimes people embedded various music players in their posts. It was fun! I already had a “Current music” field added to most of my blog’s posts, but now I also added a way to enrich this field by adding an optional Bandcamp track reference, and spent my evening updating existing posts in the blog to have it.

#IndieWeb

I was just checking out the @bonfire installation guide (which is brilliantly written btw) and suddenly I realised there was something familiar about the layout... and guess what... Bonfire is built with #ElixirLang 🥰 hex docs ftw! https://bonfirenetworks.org/start/

#IndieDev #IndieWeb #Fediverse #Activitypub

Pika, Bear Blog, or Micro Blog as a neat platform for conversation and connecting? #indieweb #retroweb #SmallWeb #blogging Any thoughts or experiences?

I appreciate that part of the #indieWeb is “running away” from the corporate controlled web in #GeminiSpace, and there are some very interesting idea being developed around there. There's something to be said about not wanting to share your environment with the poison that a large part of the web has become, but at the same time, there's also something to be said about throwing away the baby with the bathwater. The problem with the web isn't technical, it's social. The tech itself is fine.

#Chrome's deprecation of #XSLT is just the next step in the decade-long efforts by #Google to kill an open, independent web (reminder that I've collected some of that history here <https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/>). The #WebKit developers at #Apple or the prone #Mozilla developers agreeing on this choice detracts nothing from the argument.

#openWeb #indieWeb

🧡Do you browse fedi and want to get something on your frontend fixed? Perhaps a website redesign, upkeep, maintained? Adding new features?

Are you willing to give me a chance? I promise I'm not a hallucinating AI model and for whatever you decide to pay me will not go towards datacenter maintenance but towards a great user experience for the users of your service/website or page?

My DM's are always open. I'm fully open to working in whatever timezone remotely. You will love my attention to accessibility and user-first UX.

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[ #hiring #gethired #indieweb #accessibility #fedihire #remote #freelance ]
ps: wanna support as a passive audience? boost me instead 😌

What's going on, Internet?

Looking for some examples of media logs on personal websites? Think a fire hose of all the shows, movies, music watched/listened to in a long ass list with pagination or something. Hit me up.

#indieweb #personalweb #webdev

Great #indieweb sessions at #btconf #Berlin!

Yesterday, Sacha Judd (@sachajudd.com) reminded us to “teach someone …. something about building for the web”, and to “take back control of your feeds, your attention, and … go exploring again”. She encouraged us to “build healthy online neighborhoods”. That’s a great metaphor and very complementary to rebuilding your own home(page) on the web with perhaps a digital garden as well!

Today, Ana Rodrigues (@anarodrigu.es @ohhelloana.blog) connected the dots from Sacha’s reminders to encouraging everyone to join burgeoning healthy online neighborhoods like:
* 32-Bit Cafe (@32bit.cafe and see their Discord & Discourse)
* IndieWeb Community (@indieweb.org and see @chat.indieweb.org for Discord, IRC, Slack)

Both are filled with online neighbors helping and teaching each other how to make what people want to express on and for their personal sites!

Know of other healthy online neighborhoods? Let me know and I’ll add them to the IndieWeb communities page!

Want to connect your online home with online neighbors?
* Join the IndieWeb #webring: https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Webring

Prefer events? Join a virtual Frontend Study Hall, Homebrew Website Club meetup, or the next #IndieWebCamp!


Glossary and links:

btconf (Beyond Tellerrand conference) Berlin 2025
  https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2025
communities (IndieWeb)
  https://indieweb.org/communities
digital gardens
    https://indieweb.org/digital_garden
home (page) on the web
  https://indieweb.org/homepage
Homebrew Website Club (HWC) online and in-person:
  https://events.indieweb.org/tag/hwc
Front End Study Hall (FrESH)
  https://indieweb.org/fresh
IndieWebCamps - in-person and hybrid!
  https://events.indieweb.org/tag/indiewebcamp


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#indieweb #btconf #Berlin #webring: #IndieWebCamp #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts

Ok #Neocities question: my blog apparently has 91k views??? Surely not?! That HAS to be a bug :kek: . Its literally just a blog with rambling about stuff. It was 70k about a couple weeks ago. Where has that extra 20k come from? #indieweb #blog #blogging

I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPHP Vol. 51: "XTeddy" https://xteddy.org/

#SmallWeb #indieweb #homepage #blog
#screenshot #retrocomputing

Great #indieweb sessions at #btconf #Berlin!Yesterday, Sacha Judd (@sachajudd.com) reminded us to âteach someone â¦. something about building for the webâ, and to âtake back control of your feeds, your attention, and ⦠go exploring againâ. She encouraged us to âbuild healthy online neighborhoo... tantek.com

Hi #IndieWeb friends, I have a question if you use #RSS feeds for reading/exploration.


What's your thoughts on feeds that have the entire post in the feed versus having a truncated version?

I've added #syndication to my #bookblog 😃 It uses h-review #microformat, #microformat2 (yeah, I know it will likely be replaced by h-entry soon, but it's good for now).

If you have read any of the books I have and are in the #indieweb movement with a microformatted blog of your own, I'd love some interaction!

My blog is at https://khleedril.org/dale-mellor/bookblog.

Please spread the word to other readers you know in the IndieWeb. Thanks.

ps. There is also an RSS feed on the blog, if that is more use to you.

My report of the first day of last weekend’s IndieWeb Camp in Berlin.

https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/indieweb-camp-berlin-2025

#IndieWeb

Great #indieweb sessions at #btconf #Berlin!

Yesterday, Sacha Judd (@sachajudd.com) reminded us to “teach someone …. something about building for the web”, and to “take back control of your feeds, your attention, and … go exploring again”. She encouraged us to “build healthy online neighborhoods”. That’s a great metaphor and very complementary to rebuilding your own home(page) on the web with perhaps a digital garden as well!

Today, Ana Rodrigues (@anarodrigu.es @ohhelloana.blog) connected the dots from Sacha’s reminders to encouraging everyone to join burgeoning healthy online neighborhoods like:
* 32-Bit Cafe (@32bit.cafe and see their Discord & Discourse)
* IndieWeb Community (@indieweb.org and see @chat.indieweb.org for Discord, IRC, Slack)

Both are filled with online neighbors helping and teaching each other how to make what people want to express on and for their personal sites!

Know of other healthy online neighborhoods? Let me know and I’ll add them to the IndieWeb communities page!

Want to connect your online home with online neighbors?
* Join the IndieWeb #webring: https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Webring

Prefer events? Join a virtual Frontend Study Hall, Homebrew Website Club meetup, or the next #IndieWebCamp!


Glossary and links:

btconf (Beyond Tellerrand conference) Berlin 2025
  https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2025
communities (IndieWeb)
  https://indieweb.org/communities
digital gardens
    https://indieweb.org/digital_garden
home (page) on the web
  https://indieweb.org/homepage
Homebrew Website Club (HWC) online and in-person:
  https://events.indieweb.org/tag/hwc
Front End Study Hall (FrESH)
  https://indieweb.org/fresh
IndieWebCamps - in-person and hybrid!
  https://events.indieweb.org/tag/indiewebcamp


This is post 16 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts

https://tantek.com/2025/311/t1/indiewebcamp-berlin-sessions-demos
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