I haven't seen a "indieweb" ready theme in available from one-click install but it shouldn't be too hard to use existing Hugo themes to do just that (I'm trying and documenting my progress)
I’ve spent the last few months crafting my own home on the Web, and I wanted to make sure it presented me as a human, not defined solely by my work as a #DesignEngineer / #WebDev.
This has also been a great opportunity to finally use #Svelte & #SvelteKit in a project. I love how easy it was to learn and how intuitive it is, as someone who started with vanilla HTML and CSS
Doing a study on social engagement for non-Mastodon-content-focused accounts that cross-post almost the same content on both platforms.
(BTW the best practice for doing this to my mind is posting original content HERE and crossposting it THERE, but that's not the point of this exercise)
I want to compare social engagement for big and small accounts and work on a ratio to compare engagement apples to apples.
Does anyone do this, or recommend accounts I look at that do?
Been playing around with Bluesky a bit & it’s pretty interesting. They have an easier consumer experience (signup/discovery/UI works like Twitter) and it all feels very snappy. I like how they use domain names (or subdomains) instead of what look like funky email addresses. By far the biggest problem Jay & co face is that Jack Dorsey has effectively poisoned the well on everything from people assuming it’s a crypto platform (it’s not) to assuming (understandably) that be bad at trust & safety.
The #indieweb developer in me loves that. I am not sure why we would need much of the other BlueSky complexity to adapt that feature to ActivityPub based systems…
A #feditip to those trying other #fediverse software: Treat your new account as you would signing-up in a new #SNS.
A more detailed #feditips: 1. Let each of your account grow separately.
It is fine to follow certain groups and users. These are your ‘core’ interaction. But for the rest, keep them separate and let it grow organically.
2. Define a certain theme or topic or purpose for your new account.
Since we are in an interconnected network, you will end up having a major overlap between your first account and your succeeding accounts. Which might confuse you later (as well as your followers).
For example, I still post my new articles through my @youronlyone account, for two major reasons: Follower Badge, and #Indieweb support via #Bridgy.
3. Use this opportunity to learn how discovery, growth, and reach, works in the #MycelialNetwork (or #SocialWeb)
By letting your new account grow organically, and keeping the overlap with your first account at a minimum, you will be able to observe how discovery, growth, and reach, works in the network.
The Misskey and Calckey accounts are organically growing. I also discover new people, new content, that I haven't seen in my #Mastodon account (@youronlyone). And I asked myself, why? As I find answers to that question, I slowly adjust my interactions, and this in turn helped me discover more and reach wider.
The Mycelial Network (as I now prefer to call the Fediverse), is huge. When it started in 2008, it was small, and we all know each other. Today, I've probably only discovered and reached 0.5% of the network. It grew that fast.
Now, this is super interesting. Last night, I asked how people display #Webmentions on their (#IndieWeb) sites. I already got a few really good answers, including e.g. the sites of @sia, @nhoizey, and @andy. 🙏
But now, I want more. 😁 And I’ll write a summary (with details), of course.
Have you seen a Webmention implementation with great UX or anything that looks like a great best practice? LMK below!
This might be the most important blog post I ever wrote. It's been a while since I wanted to publish some sort of personal manifesto on my site.
After I stopped promoting myself as if I were a brand, I needed to put my foot down and declare what I stand for, on the only place that's not going away: my personal website.
So, here it is. A personal manifesto, where I touch on these topics:
Tiny websites have always fascinated me, along with internet web portals (which haven't been a thing for many years-- at least in the way we used to know them). I'm talking a simple HTML page with just a graphic or two, and a bunch of links. Something that might resemble the early days of Yahoo, etc.
The idea for this site I made has been buzzing around in my head for a while now. It is NOT responsive, there is NO JavaScript, and there's just a TINY bit of CSS. The whole site (one HTML page) is only about 9kb!
A simple site like this one might look primitive compared to some of the huge, complicated websites we see as standard on the internet today, but this site is guaranteed to work on any browser or device.
I used links for sites/documents that I frequent or use a lot, and mixed in my own personal projects for fun. It's a super simple page-- mostly for my own usage. But I really love the design of it!
As we slowly watch cryptocurrency and NFTs get replaced by the next big fad in venture capitalism, AI, I'd just like to thank everyone fighting for a free and open internet. #mastodon#fediverse#indieweb#FreeAndOpenInternet
“There are those who see the web merely as a tool to sell things or to gain influence or otherwise profit, and then there are the “web people” who enjoy the web as a medium of creation, who simply enjoy putting things out there for other people to appreciate.”
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
A reminder that you can pull your posts from your #Mastodon server using the RSS feed or the JSON API, and put them on your own website, like I did: https://abhinavsarkar.net/microblog/
G'day folks! My name is Kris. I'm an Aussie-American who relocated back to Sydney at the end of 2022 after a couple years in Europe.
I'm an old-school #blogger who's been interested in the #IndieWeb for a long time and finally moving in that direction. I've been running the @roalddahlfans website since 1996, so if you want to know anything about #RoaldDahl, consider me your expert. I also dabble in #knitting and #sewing, and my Instagram is full of #selfies and #food.
For my day job, I'm the Head of APAC DevRel for AWS. I love going to tech meetups, and I help run Sydney Tech Leaders. Looking forward to reconnecting with everyone now that I'm back!
Webmentions replies/likes/reposts are now being merged with ActivityPub interactions
Improved microformats2 markup in templates
Also, in case you're worried, microblogpub is not vulnerable to the activitypub-troll[.]cf "attacks", as we're not fetching all the profiles mentioned in a note.
It seems like the people responding to this poll (so far) skew towards those who experienced the Internet in the 1990s and earlier.
Which might suggest there are a lot of people on the #Fediverse that not only remember the #oldInternet , but might want to support, bring back, and re-create & restore the best parts of the "old Internet".
I'm Jacky Alciné, a software developer by trade and interest. When I'm not doing that, I'm usually ranting, reading or writing about what I'm learning and understanding about #Racism, #Communism across the world and the fight against constant Anglo/European imperialism, #USPoliticalHistory or something about #FLOSS.
I like the idea and prospect of an open Web so I'm an adamant supporter of things like the #IndieWeb, #Fediverse and the offline Web (hey SSB!).
Emotion is a website directory of anime, manga and video game shrines, which are a specific type of fansite.
If you can, please spread the word (especially due to the URL change) so that visitors and creators can keep finding their way to shrines for a long time. 🥰 They're truly one of my favourite things in the world wide web.