Anyone thinking about starting their own blog this year?

I thought I'd share my DigitalOcean referral link that gives you $200 to spend within the first 60 days:

https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9e279abc3337

DigitalOcean starts at $4/month and has one-click installers for WordPress and Ghost:

- https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/wordpress
- https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/ghost

#indieweb #website #NotAnAd #referral

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If you have a website with neo cities, just know that the creator actually likes AI, and will add it again based on this post alone. Moratorium on freaking out about AI https://kyledrake.com/writings/ai

One alternative I've found is https://nekoweb.org/

Background on NeoCities adding AI to their editor.

https://cohost.org/horseonvhs/post/5661130-fucking-come-on-man

#AI #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #neocities

horse on cohost

fucking, come on man. (edit from the future: a few hours after i posted this, the feature was reportedly turned off - see here [https://cohost.org/nicky/post/5665868-damn-i-should-be-sen] for more info)

^{horse on cohost}

I’m building https://lmno.lol, a new blogging service

- No #tracking
- No #ads
- No #paywall
- No #bloat
- No #distraction
- No registration to try

- #privacy first
- #light #dark mode
- Read anywhere (even on #terminal).
- #markdown drag/drop
- Bring your own #text #editor

You can check out my blog mirror at https://lmno.lol/alvaro

Happy to send invites.

Please help me get the word out 🙏

#vim #emacs #vscode #minimalism #indiedev #indieweb #indie

Tomorrow's the official start of #30DayFOSSChallenge! We've got a few people chatting in the #matrix already: https://matrix.to/#/#30DayFOSSChallenge:mozilla.org

Feel free to join us. Don't know what I'm talking about? Look here: https://nullarch.com/30DayFOSSChallenge.html

#foss #floss #opensource #freeculture #degoogle #indieweb

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation

^matrix.to

this post @capjamesg wrote is almost plucked right out of my brain; been having these thoughts for a while, and i'm so glad to share it. thank you for writing it, james!

"To have a personal website is, presently, an act of rebellion. It is a statement. You are saying: I want to define my experience on the web. I'll let you in on an open secret: Big tech companies aren't the only ones who get to decide how we share ideas on the web. The web is yours. You can put up a website where you share whatever it is that you want to share with others."

https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/27/the-indie-web/

#indieweb #personalweb #smallweb #internet

The indie web | James' Coffee Blog

I went twenty-two years not knowing how to cook an egg. Cooking classes were a rough time for an anxious student like I was. I did not know I was suffering from anxiety at the time; that is a recent realisation.

^jamesg.blog

If you browse a lot of #smallweb #indieweb blogs and websites, you should add the StreetPass extenstion to your web browser. It finds #fediverse accounts associated with the blogs you read, and allows you to view the accounts and follow them if you want.

How does it work?

1. Mastodon users verify themselves by adding a custom link to their personal site.
2. StreetPass lets you know when you've found one of these links, and adds them to your StreetPass list.
3. Browse the web as usual. StreetPass will build a list of Mastodon users made up of the websites you go to.

##StreetPass is made possible by open web identity verification standards and is 100% open source!

https://streetpass.social/

@tvler

Need help finding or piecing together a software that does a thing.

Dadboss informed me of something our company used to use way back, Yahoo Groups, as an email newsgroup.

Apparently, our members were really into it because they didn’t have to go anywhere or log in to anything.

They received an email and simply hit reply and it added their response.

He wants something like that crossed with Substack.

Sounds like maybe something #Indieweb protocol can do?

I don’t know; I’m not a developer, but I’m pretty good at piecing things together out of existing technology.

And maybe it already exists!

If someone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.