Got tired of letting a black-box algorithm decide if my work was worth seeing after 30 minutes, so I'm stepping off the hamster wheel to build a direct publication for creators.
Read my launch manifesto here:

https://substack.com/@zandarstone?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8ysyxa

#Blogging #ContentCreators #IndieWeb #Substack #CreativeIndependence

Love this. IndieWeb is punk: > Nobody’s waiting for permission to have a website. You don’t need a “content strategy.” You don’t need a niche. You need a place that’s yours, and the nerve to hit publish. 🎸
It might be weird for a pastor to post this, but it resonates with me on so many levels. Indieweb is punk

Love this. IndieWeb is punk:

Nobody’s waiting for permission to have a website. You don’t need a “content strategy.” You don’t need a niche. You need a place that’s yours, and the nerve to hit publish.

🎸

Love this. IndieWeb is punk: "Nobody’s waiting for permission to have a website. You don’t need a “content strategy.” You don’t need a niche. You need a place that’s yours, and the nerve to hit publish." 🎸
Please let me interact with your blog post! https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/22/please-let-me-interact-with-your-blog-post/ #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 #Blogging #IndieWeb #Webmentions

HWC Edinburgh - Writing session on Tue 12 August

Love that Jim Mitchell created this new IndieWeb is Punk Manifesto site, inspired by my blog post from 2025.

It feels, to me, that if Mastodon were operating the way I think matches its intent, we’d see servers functioning as like.. discord adjacent communities that also, thanks to federation, connect to the larger #fediverse. But I don’t really see that happening much. Maybe more server centric discoverability, things like channels, or topics or something, might be something that helped?

#indieweb

I’m both here and on BlueSky and I started posting on both around the same time and it does feel like I’ve had more emergent conversations there. It often feels here like I’m just talking to no one.

Maybe that’s because I self host my instance or maybe I’m not “doing it right” Mastodon is where I’d prefer to be for various reasons. But I’ve seen a ton of resistance from others to coming here and I don’t know how to fix it. #fediverse #indieweb

I’ve been thinking a lot today about the obstacles less tech savvy people might face toward being on the #fediverse or otherwise joining the #indieweb, and how we could address those.

I do think federated discovery is worse than on rival platforms, but this seems like it should be a solveable problem. I think there’s a perception that “more people = more of my people” which is harder to address.

I also think ATProtocol and the Fediverse end up competing over a similar audience.

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It’s okay to be sensitive, and it’s also okay to fuck up (I’ve fucked up plenty worse myself) but when you’re a creator with a public-facing project like Pagecord, you need to be able to handle criticism, even when it’s unfair or aggressive. This is the Internet. Many marginalized folks face far worse harassment for simply existing.

#indieweb

🍜 IndieWeb Ethos and Pagecord · brennan.day https://brennan.day/indieweb-ethos-and-pagecord/

If you’ve been to my site before—you may have noticed a bit of a change since yesterday.

Last night, I pushed a lot of features and stylistic changes to my site (over 100 commits?!) It was long overdue and I’m feeling happy I got it done (but not too happy...

Full note:
➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0822-2012

This is post 85 of #100DaysToOffload
➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

And post 11 of #blaugust2026
➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/joining-blaugust-2026/

#frontend #personalblog #css #hugo #webdev #smallweb #indieweb #blog #blogpost

Gradient Lab recorded papers 93 → 110. https://lab.srv1579310.hstgr.cloud/ #indieweb #selfhosted #opensource
♻️ WeirdWriter: The Bookstore Hope sightlessscribbles.com/posts/t… #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #Blogs

More than half of the traffic to my not-at-all popular website is now bots. #indieweb