"On the drive home, we talked about how everyone we know is fighting their own battles. Every life, no matter how perfect it may seem, shows cracks under close scrutiny. But that’s okay. With other people beside you, it’s worthwhile."

https://quinnmaclay.com/blog/26-11-09-drones

#blog #smallweb #indieweb

Your site might be politely asking Google to ignore it.
Starters and preview builds often ship with noindex or a blocking robots.txt. Check both on production before you wonder why nobody finds you.
Save this and follow for more plain-words web checks.

webauditos.com

#SEO #WebDev #DigitalMarketing #IndieWeb

Feature request for #atproto apps:

Add and show metadata about which tool was used to eg. post a Bluesky post.

Twitter used to do this and it helped discoverability of third party apps.

The #IndieWeb documents their approach here: indieweb.org/h-x-app

/cc @mu.social@bsky.brid.gy @pfrazee.com@bsky.brid.gy @snarfed.org@bsky.brid.gy

It's another Monday so another round of weeknotes are up on my site. Enjoy!

#Blog #personalBlog #personalWebsite #personalWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb #weeknotes

Here's the Archive page in Persistwise. Each post from your feed gets one line, newest first, with a status for each copy:

Wayback: saving, trying again, or saved
IPFS: saving, trying again, or pinned
Saved copy: ready

"Trying again" means it's retrying by itself, so there's nothing to babysit. A post only counts as archived when both the Wayback snapshot and the IPFS pin are done, and each finished copy is a link you can open.

https://persistwise.com

#IndieWeb #Blogging

This is the nudge if you are looking for a sign to start a blog.

In this edition of Miscellanea, I wrote about choosing a domain & hosting for your future blog, and how the indieweb practices can help with discovery.

Plus, in the recommendations section: music by Areni Agbabian, a list of history books, a search engine for public domain images and an essay from Noemamag.

https://miscellanea.danielprindii.com/archive/start-blogging

#indieweb #rss #blogs #newsletters #books

@fasnix The examples at the end are telling, some people do still run Gopher (or, in my case, I adopted it this year), the bigger thing is seemingly Gemini, but Gemini and Gopher together are now both, alongside Finger and other protocols, associated with the whole #smolweb movement. And then there's #indieweb. Although I've been using the Internet since 2004, only now I've installed a RSS reader to point to the sites on bearblog.dev, bubbles.town etc., various blogs posted on Hacker News and Lobsters... Admittedly, I only just became a tech nerd. :) But I've seen on Bearblog and Bubbles plenty of warm-blooded personal pages, like on NeoCities. Will absolutely all of these remain niche? I don't know. Gemini is the one semi-"dark" web that is definitely the friendliest towards "normies".

A survey for users and creators of independent web:

Do you have a preference between a guestbook and a comment section for different pages of website?

#web #indieweb

Guestbook
Comment section
Both

Hi, I’m yarmuts. First of all a person, then an internet enthusiast.

I like GNU/Linux, code, the old internet, making websites by hand, space, plants, ugly drawings and old things that still work. I write words, I’m learning to write code, and I have opinions about most of it.

So I made myself a den: a website, written by hand, where I pin up what I find, what I think and what makes me mad. Take a look.

https://yarmuts.website/

#introduction #indieweb

I don’t think I’ve shared, but these and bunch of other things (included my posts to Mastadon) all get posted in my stream. #indieweb

https://jacobrcampbell.com/stream/

👋 Welcome our newest writer, Buretto to the moon! Their avatar emoji is 🏄🏾‍♂️.

View profile: https://moon-zine.net/profile/Buretto to the moon
#writingcommunity #indieweb #avatar

Tech news without the noise: https://hax0r.zip

One page with the front pages of Hacker News, Lobsters and Slashdot, plus Linux and BSD news, self-hosting, language weeklies, new repos, small personal blogs and a good handful of Lemmy communities. It refreshes through the day.

No JavaScript, no trackers, no ads. If you'd rather read it in your feed reader, there's an Atom feed.

#Tech #SmallWeb #SelfHosted #Linux #BSD #OpenSource #IndieWeb #RSS #Fediverse

Added a little badge to the footer of my #blog :)

#IndieWeb

New homepage is up. Design's still a work in progress, but I don't have time for perfect. Close enough, and a cigar!

<https://piewpiew.se/>

#IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #Hugo #StaticSite #SmallWeb #RetroComputing #BBS #microblog

You still have two weeks to submit your website to the second issue of the Internet Phone Book, a publication for "exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites".

https://internetphonebook.net/

https://tally.so/r/3EEZzL

#InternetPhoneBook #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite

#Webmention for #Craft CMS 1.6.0 is out! 🎉

Ready for @craftcms 5.12 and its MCP server: the Webmention Switch is now a real boolean, bulk resaves no longer re-send webmentions, and multi-domain sites get their mentions on the right entry.

github.com/matthiasott/webmention/releases/tag/v1.6.0

If you're tired of algorithms deciding who sees your blog: I just launched Webnetz 🚀

A lightweight, tracking-free recommendation widget designed to connect independent websites and share reach.

🌐 Free & privacy-first
🛡️ Manually curated
⚡ Under 5 kB

Check it out: https://webnetz.t-w.us?lang=en

#IndieWeb #WebDev #Blogging #OpenWeb #SelfHosted