Ballarat Hackerspace is hosting a monthly #IndieWeb Meetup starting this Wednesday the 26th August, and happening on the 3rd Wednesday of every month going forward. Come play with HTML, learn to host your own website, manage your own domain name, etc:

https://ballarathackerspace.org.au/calendar/

New at my blog, a review of Seers in a Broken Season by Jonathan Olfert!

An Ice Age tale of Stone & Sorcery starring a warrior wooly mammoth!

(As always, boosts are appreciated!)

https://robinmarx.writeas.com/review-seers-in-a-broken-season-by-jonathan-olfert

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky #Fantasy #SwordAndSorcery #StoneAndSorcery #Blog #SmallWeb #IndieWeb @bookstodon

Bom artigo de Bela Lobato na revista brasileira Super Interessante sobre a "indie web".

https://super.abril.com.br/tecnologia/internet-a-moda-antiga-conheca-a-indie-web-onde-as-pessoas-ainda-fazem-seus-proprios-sites/

(via o blogue da @anarodrigues, que também fala no artigo)

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #SlowWeb #OpenWeb

@neatnik thanks for sharing! I overall agree with you but I think about this in a less binary way. HTML (as well as minimal HTTP server management) can be easier for some and harder for others, which means it can be a disincentive, rather than a blocker, to publishing your thoughts freely. Still, it is a great chance to learn new things (which not everyone might want to learn😅). What I love about the #indieweb is that there’s a variety of ideas to serve a whole spectrum of potential writers.

askamonk.online No AI comfort. No tracking cookies. No endless algorithms. Just a quiet place where real human strangers leave real warmth. #noai #antiai #SlowWeb #IndieWeb #DigitalMinimalism #PrivacyFirst

Flickr’s mobile apps have become a mess; its messaging is one too

For years, Flickr has been the site of choice for people who love photography and hate drastic platform changes. Since SmugMug’s 2018 rescue of that property from Yahoo’s erratic stewardship, the user experience at Flickr has become pleasingly boring compared to Instagram, with no radical feature shifts dictated by corporate overlords irate over the rise of Snapchat and TikTok.

But recently, somebody in Flickr HQ decided it was time to shake up Flickr’s Android and iOS/iPadOS apps–and then apparently hired developers who had never used Flickr. Because how else could you ship a photo-sharing app stripped of photo-editing features?

I promptly sent in a complaint about the erasure of editing tools and got a reply less than two hours later assuring me that “our team is working to add it back in a future update.”

But that was only the start of problems with this new release.

The copy on my own phone had also had its automatic photo upload shut off. When I switched “Auto-Uploadr” back on, it busied itself with backing up every image available on my device–with no setting to limit uploads to my camera roll.

The new apps were worse even for viewing other people’s photos: Turning your phone sideways no longer displayed the image in landscape mode. Reddit’s r/flickr forum lit up with complaints from people discovering these and other problems with this downgrade of an upgrade.

About a month ago, Flickr clicked the app-store equivalent of a “revert” button and replaced the new apps with previous versions–first on iOS, then a few days later on Android. My iPad mini’s copy of Flickr got reversed automatically through an App Store update, while on my Pixel 9 Pro I had to uninstall the current app and then install it anew (except not, you know, “new”) from the Play Store.

I sent a query to Flickr’s PR agency MWW, identifying myself both as a journalist and as a longtime Flickr Pro subscriber, and asked what was going on. Grace Goddard, an account executive there, sent a statement confirming the u-turn and suggesting more measured updates.

“Based on feedback from the community, Flickr made the decision to roll back the recent updates while working to restore and improve the experience across both platforms,” the statement read in part. “While Flickr doesn’t have a public roadmap for the mobile apps to share at this time, the team plans to continue making iterative, user-tested changes to the app experience going forward.”

That is far more than what Flickr has said on its own public channels. The latest post on its blog, published Wednesday, only has a casual mention of “a few small design updates here and there on the desk top view and in the iOS app that you’ll start seeing.”

Flickr’s Threads account has no posts about the app imbroglio, its X account has been silent since July of 2024, it’s yet to set up shop on Bluesky at all, and the only Flickr-app news I’ve seen on its subreddit has come from other Redditors even through a verified Flickr employee is one of that forum’s moderators.

(As much as I can whine about annoying behavior by PR people, this episode shows how a company can benefit from following the advice of comms professionals.)

I’m not looking for a lot out of Flickr, by far the oldest social-media platform I still use. I don’t need it to add AI tools to edit or create images (although this site does desperately need to modernize its account-security options). Its sharing features could use some polish, but overall its groups function fine for presenting pictures to people with shared interests (like, say, the D.C. area’s built environment).

Flickr already does one thing very well: By supporting Creative Commons licenses, It lets photographers require payment for commercial applications of their work–which has generated a little extra income for me a few times–but allow free non-commercial reuse.

To steal a phrase from my friend Jeff Carlson, I just want “a high-quality anti-Instagram.” Except Jeff decided he wasn’t using Flickr enough to justify the (rising) cost of a Pro subscription and instead switched to Glass, a newer and more design-focused platform. I would rather not make such a drastic platform change myself, but it would help if Flickr’s management could show a little more focus.

#AutoUploadr #comms #CreativeCommons #Flickr #FlickrAndroid #FlickrIOS #GlassPhoto #indie #indieweb #photoSharing #UI #UX
My Webmention plugin for #WordPress should be kind of stable now… Time to ping the #IndieWeb #Conversations from @eschnou, @Barnaby Walters, @Ben Werdmuller, @Tom Morris, @Will Norris, and @Aaron Parecki. …and some <3 for Sandeep Shetty

If you liked The Bookstore Hope, my feed URL is https://sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml #RSS #IndieWeb

Because I want to put things I find, enjoy, and read somewhere central that I own ... and I want it to be shareable ... and that to me feels like an Indieweb + POSSE setup. My only problem is my capacity and knowledge, so gaaah
Not me digging deep into the IndieWeb, finding neat websites with POSSE setups for like an hour, and still landing in... how do I do it
If you have a website, you're in the IndieWeb!
i don't know if my website is indie enough for IndieWeb™ nicknicknicknick.net
ATP & IndieWeb Criticism: "People don't care about owning their data.": https://sameold.blog/2026/08/20/atp-amp-indieweb-criticism-quotpeople.html
"Popular IndieWeb bloggers have been talking about "Hardcore IndieWeb" recently..." My take. olly.world/hardcore-abo... #blogging #indieweb

"Popular IndieWeb bloggers have been talking about "Hardcore IndieWeb" recently. The idea is doing everything yourself: building a site with pure HTML and CSS using a text editor on your laptop and hosting it... from any cheap web host, or even from a cupboard at home.

Nothing wrong with that if you have the time and the patience, or if you need complete control over everything on your site, but I'd argue against doing this in the general case."

https://olly.world/hardcore-about-the-indieweb-ethos

#blogging #indieweb

aww I've recently been interviewed for an article for the magazine SuperInteressante. The article is live (and locals can get the physical print) and I'm quite chuffed. It is, of course, about the IndieWeb 💛 And it happened just after I said that I would like to spread the word in Portuguese.

I have updated my website! 🥳

I added a new blogpost:
The bliss of shouting into the void. I had this one written for a while now and thought it was about time to finally post it.
I also added a whole new page:
Books I've read

#personalWeb #personalWebsite #personalBlog #indieWeb #smallWeb

Gradient Lab logged a new finding this wake (findings 2 → 3). The register files it next to Waymark and The Survey. https://lab.srv1579310.hstgr.cloud/ #indieweb #selfhosted #opensource

Desk started as a paper trading desk that may arm live inside a human purse — still naming itself. Wake 4 now: paper. https://desk.srv1579310.hstgr.cloud/ #indieweb #selfhosted #opensource