Plain Texting Almost Everything

I use plain text for as much as I possibly can. However, there are just some things that I cannot or do not use plain text for. As much as I prefer plain text, here are the things I that I do not use plain text for.

https://readbeanicecream.codeberg.page/posts/2026-09-20.html

#PlainText #OpenSource #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BlogPost

If any of your communities use Slack, especially the “free” version, once in a while Slack seems to temporarily upgrade your “Slack team” to their “PRO” version (for 30 days).

In the Slack mobile app, you may see a dismissible banner like:

“PRO: Your team is on a free trial”

This is your chance to go back and manually archive or follow-up on old dms and “saved” posts.

If you happen to use the bookmarks (AKA “Later” or “Save for later”) feature to collect Slack posts that you want to follow-up on later, you may have noticed that any such “saved” posts older than 30 days are usually no longer viewable.

When your Slack instance is on a PRO free trial, you can once again view these older posts.

Use this opportunity to go through any saved posts older than 30 days (maybe older than 15 days to give yourself a buffer, or all of them to clear them out) and decide what to do with them.

If there is anything about them you still want to save (for reference), copy them somewhere else accordingly, or if you saved them as a reminder to follow-up, copy them to a persistent plain text inbox, or if following-up will only take a few minutes, then take care of them.

The other thing you get longer term access to are direct messages (dms).

Slack PRO provides you full access to your (potentially years of) dms, instead of only the past 30 days worth. Worth checking your dms to see if there is anything you want to copy or save.

I advise using the web version of Slack to do this, since it’s much easier to merely open another tab to copy/paste or otherwise take care of dms and saved posts.

That’s my #WASSUP tip for the day.

The IndieWeb community Slack (which itself is merely one of several ways to access the IndieWeb chat) is currently in a Slack PRO free trial, and I have been going through a few saved posts, copying content to the wiki or otherwise handling them.

Glossary:

IndieWeb chat
  https://chat.indieweb.org/

This is my eighth #WASSUP2026 post, and sixth useful web tip for September.

#Slack #SlackTeam #SlackPRO #SlackTip #tip #webTip

This is post 21 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #indieweb

https://tantek.com/2026/244/t1/september-blogging-challenge-wassup
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howd i do, you think? i think im getting vaguely competent at this indieweb stuff voxelroguery.neocities.org/about_me/

Multics is live! (AGAIN)

The index grew from 45k pages to 2.3M personal blogs, self-hosted projects, the wider IndieWeb (source: github.com/kagisearch/smallweb). At 23GB, downloading the whole database stopped making sense.

Search still runs client-side nothing you search is sent to a server but now fetches only the pieces a query needs. Most searches move a few MB. Popular words (like "indieweb") can hit ~80MB.

https://zevlo.app

#indieweb #mutlics #searchengine #privacyfirst #smallweb

Test toot syndicated from my site.
#indieweb

https://ilye.ss/notes/202609201628/

Hey Canada indie web - Anyone ever think of trying to set up something similar to Neocities or NekoWeb in case the states do a rug pull? #indieweb #canada

Quote of the Day, see more at https://lzon.ca/quotes

--
And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.
- Edgar Allen Poe, To One in Paradise
--

#IndieWeb #PersonalWeb #Blog #Quotes

Updated my 'Now' page to mention my new job and photography hobby

https://rubenwardy.com/now/

#IndieWeb

Really couldn’t be happier, and as a #selfhosting and #indieweb user since the 90s, this pleases me greatly. I really like simplicity and KISS really applies here. Much easier to troubleshoot, one less layer that can fail and just feels better from a user and privacy standpoint. 3/3

The sites in question are actually way faster and in the 20 days since Cloudflare was enabled our organic rankings and traffic have exploded. Really couldn’t be happier, and as a #selfhosting and #indieweb user since the 90s, this pleases me greatly. I really like simplicity and KISS really applies here. Much easier to troubleshoot, one less layer that can fail and just feels better from a user and privacy standpoint.
2/2

Test toot POSSE’d from my site.
#indieweb

https://ilye.ss/notes/202609201145/

Hey. I am on 13,96 in #PixelArea.

Here:

https://pxlarea.com/x13y96

I beg the guy should add two tags, #poetry and #philosophy :D

#smollweb #smallweb #indieweb #blog #blogging #writing

📦 indieauth/client 1.1.7 IndieAuth Client Library 🔗 https://github.com/indieweb/indieauth-client-php

If you read web site feeds and you're given a choice which do you pick?

Boost for reach.
#blogging #indieWeb #smallweb #cosyweb

RSS
ATOM
JSON

Request: Every single Fediverse self-hosted project should come with a flag to activate protection against scrapers and AI.

Peertube, NeoDB, Mastodon, GoToSocial etc. These projects should invest aggressively in developing these kinds of tools if the current ones are not effective or clash against this value (Anubis is proof-of-work but SlopWare and iocaine isn’t proof-of-work apparently).

The reason why I use my own servers is because I actively protect them from AI and scrapers.

I’m not gonna write, code, design or record videos so you can train a plagiarism machine and capitalize my knowledge so you can (wishful thinking) replace me in the near future.

This ideal should be at the core of the Fediverse and the open web. The open nature applies to humans, not to predatory companies and LLMs. Enough.

The current stance of the OSS and FOSS scenes is disappointing and pusillanimous, best case scenario they don’t care or even are happy with the scrapings, worst one they are actively using AI.

Lame and weak.

#Fediverse #NoAI #FuckAI #LLM #FuckLLM #BigTech #IndieWeb #Programming #OSS #FOSS

I took a moment to make a todo list for my trip to Goatmire 🐐. I will edit it as my luggage plans become more concrete during the week (because of course, packing 🧳 is best done as a last minute activity).

#ElixirLang #IndieWeb

https://iamkonstantin.eu/blog/goatmire-the-final-countdown/

I wrote a little essay about trying to grow a deeply personal, quirky corner of the internet in an algorithm-driven world – without losing what made that corner special in the first place. #food #webculture #personalweb #indieweb #creativewriting #poetry #ai
Grieving Alongside Water https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/grieving-alongside-water/ #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb #NoPaywall