@Amgine on the #indieweb wiki several of us have been trying to document “AI” scraping’s impact - it may be useful to you to click through to the mitigation schemes mentioned. https://indieweb.org/large_language_model_traffic
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#IndieWeb question related to scraping and permalinks: has anyone developed a method to reduce/address AI scraping?
I was thinking a more-complicated shorturl which checks the referer, which should match the syndication site else redir to a spider trap/boring page. Also consider(ed|ing) .onion or i2p as I really am not trying to communicate with folk who are not using one or the other.
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Grosse mise à jour de mon blog ce soir, avec un nouveau thème. Un retour à la simplicité pour moi. C'est ce que j'avais envie et besoin. Et ça me fait beaucoup de bien. 🙂↕️
➡️ https://alyve.be/blog/nouveau-theme-liberation-et-simplicite/
#blog #simplicité #smallweb #indieweb
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I’m falling down the rabbit hole of #blogging and the #indieweb. Does anyone know of good resources to get familiar with the core concepts and first steps? I’m a bit overwhelmed by the amount of information out there and not sure what I should focus on or where to start.
Goal: I want my own blog, the ability to easily share my posts on the #fediverse, and a straightforward writing tool I can use to publish them.
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You tell an llm to write function but you gotta recheck and possibly refactor it before adding it to your code base. What was even the point then huh?
#noai #llm #programming #testing #enshittification #python #golang #rust #javascript #indieweb
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A test page with 2000 randomly generated entries to answer a question from the HN comments section:
https://susam.net/code/test/2k.html
Actual page size is 240 kB and the compressed transfer size is 130 kB.
#webdev #web #indieweb #programming
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My Seek 2025 Year in Review:
* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)
Top three kinds:
* 64 new plants (down from 79)
* 14 new insects (down from 20)
* 8 new fungi
* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)
July, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.
Last year: June, March, July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
As noted last year: https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works:
1. works without creating an account
2. works completely offline to identify species
3. adds new species to your local collection on your device
Those first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 3 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport
→ 🔮
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first
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@tantek.com I would love to set up my own website again. Just posted to #indieweb re: looking for a host, as I've previously been with siteground who are now powered by AI #noai for me... are there #websitehosting recommendations for indieweb?
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My Seek 2025 Year in Review:
* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)
Top three kinds:
* 64 new plants (down from 79)
* 14 new insects (down from 20)
* 8 new fungi
* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)
July, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.
Last year: June, March, July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
As noted last year: https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works:
1. works without creating an account
2. works completely offline to identify species
3. adds new species to your local collection on your device
Those first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 3 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport
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Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first
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"html": "<p>My Seek 2025 Year in Review:<br /><br />* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)<br /><br />Top three kinds:<br />\u00a0 * 64 new plants (down from 79)<br />\u00a0 * 14 new insects (down from 20)<br />\u00a0 * 8 new fungi<br />* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)<br /><br />July, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.<br />Last year: June, March, July.<br /><br />Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.<br /><br />As noted last year: <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review\">https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review</a><br /><br />Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.<br /><br />Made by the iNaturalist folks (<a href=\"https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app\">https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app</a>), Seek works:<br />1. works without creating an account<br />2. works completely offline to identify species<br />3. adds new species to your local collection on your device<br /><br />Those first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span class=\"p-category\">indieweb</span></a> apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.<br /><br />This is post 3 of <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/100PostsOfIndieWeb\">#<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span></a>. <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/100Posts\">#<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/yearInReview\">#<span class=\"p-category\">yearInReview</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/iNaturalist\">#<span class=\"p-category\">iNaturalist</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/SeekApp\">#<span class=\"p-category\">SeekApp</span></a><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport\">https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport</a><br />\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e<br /><br /><br />Glossary:<br /><br />login wall<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/login_wall\">https://indieweb.org/login_wall</a><br />offline first<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/offline_first\">https://indieweb.org/offline_first</a></p>",
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Perks of trying to pick up blogging in 2026 again: finding out my RSS feed is broken.
There's virtually no reason for folks to actually subscribe to it, but that's also a nice way to learn that no one does 😬
#indieweb
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I love that @adam created https://url.town
I’ve found more interesting websites from my 20 minutes of perusing this URL directory than I have over the last couple of years searching on Google. Viva la #indieweb
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”A blog alarm clock lives inside me. As time passes, an uncomfortable pressure builds up until the alarm finally goes off, rattling my bones and my soul. Snoozing isn’t an option; the only way to turn the alarm off and release the pressure is to publish a blog post.” — Brad Frost
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#Business #Blogging #Writing #Publishing #Content #Blog #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #AlarmClock #Quotes
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Work on my TTRPG site is proceeding well, and hopefully I should have something announce-worthy within a few days.
Building your own web site engine as well as the web site itself does take a lot of time, but I think it's worth it. Once it's up and running, I should also be able to start a YouTube channel, and perhaps a podcast.
#TTRPG #IndieWeb
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I understand the world is falling apart, or at least part of it, but I can’t do anything about that right now.
Instead, I’ve been setting up a new Mailchimp account and integrating it with my personal website, so I can abandon all the other platforms and simply use my own site for all my output. I’m going to quit everything else. Still working out how best to automatically publish to here and how to get my RSS feed out to people. See if I can build my own audience and give it away.
#IndieWeb
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