What's the downside to #selfhosting all the things?

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#AskFedi #IndieWeb

today is officially *THREE* weeks until the submission deadline for Good Internet magazine!

Good Internet launches in May 2025. it's a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.

🔍 we're looking for 1,500-4,000 word articles about anything related to that!

you could write about:

* #internet history
* personal #websites
* #accessibility on the #indieweb
* finding inspiration for a #blog
* #webdesign trends
* running from the #enshittification of the #web
* lessons or post-mortems from #webdev projects
* news or overviews of #opensource projects

if it relates to hobbies on "this side of the web," whether you call it the #smallweb or indieweb, we probably want to run it!

you can have your article as low-media (meaning only text and images) or interactive, where you code an entire webpage to help tell your story.

if you're interested in learning more, you can sign up for our email list for when we launch or you can check the submission guidelines @ goodinternetmagazine.com!

(please boost if you can! ❤)

@matrix has gone from $0 to $561K in recurring revenue in just 2 years. But our expenses run $1.2M/yr.

We've burned through reserves and are at a crossroads.

It's the classic FOSS funding problem: use and adoption are at an all-time high, wealthy companies and countries use it, and secure decentralized comms have never been more important. And yet we can't pay our bills.

YOU have a role to play in shaping what comes next: matrix.org/blog/2025/02/crossr…

#Matrix #FOSS #OpenSource #IndieWeb #Fediverse

We're at a crossroads

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Thib (matrix.org)}

🔖 Bookmarked The Free Web - The History of the Web (thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-fre…)

> Put something on the web. And do it for free.

Jay Hoffmann shares his motivations for his labour of love newsletter. He does it because he’s in awe of the web and believes in an open web. He encourages everyone to take action to help the open and free web.

🔥 flamedfury.com/bookmarks/the-f…

#web #indieweb #smallweb #socialweb #openweb #freeweb

The Free Web - The History of the Web

There is something you can do to help the open web. Put yourself on it.

^{Jay (The History of the Web)}

I'm happy so many people liked my first article!

Now I wrote about why focus outlines deserve better treatment in web design, and how to make them both beautiful and accessible ✍️

medienbaecker.com/articles/foc…

#accessibility #webdev #webdesign #indieweb

Beautiful focus outlines

Baker’s son turned web developer, kneading pixels and code for 15+ years. I help you bake your ideas into websites 🥨.

^{Thomas Günther (medienbaecker.com)}

Semantic websites are awesome! Among other things, they let you write reusable CSS. Please send me your semantic websites, so I can analyze them for common patterns and write a composable CSS framework.

jak2k.schwanenberg.name/post/c…

#indieweb #smolweb #semanticHTML #html #semantic #css #semanticcss

Written by an 18 yrs. old:

“I wish I was around when people had blogs or even myspace. This era was deeply personal and creative. Most writing on the internet was individual, not written in search of “SEO” or profit but driven by the need and want of people to share knowledge–pure curiosity.”

Great blog post re: #IndieWeb #OldWeb

rohan.ga/blog/early-internet/

/via @feedle

Looks like Libre.fm, an open-software version of Last.fm by the GNU Project, is being reworked to support ActivityPub!

roadmap.libre.fm

#LibreFM #LastFM #Fediverse #SocialWeb #IndieWeb #ActivityPub #GNU #GNUProject #Music #FediMusic

my hope is that in this new surge of renewed interest for having your own damn blog on your own damn website, this finally gives #indieweb the push for adoption that it’s been sorely needing

it’d also be really funny to me if the indieweb community got totally overrun by socialist therian plural furries with a taste for anti-racist action

"Apple made a fateful decision that mobile-phone internet should be app-centric, not browser/website centric. Then Android copied their mistake."

Many interesting things in this article, but this is one particular gripe I have about today's Internet. I will go to so much unnecessary trouble just to avoid using somebody's app.

tumblr.com/accordion-druid/685…

#IndieWeb #Enshittification #Web3 #SocialMedia #Blog

Back in March I scanned through a terabyte of old geocities sites with the goal of finding *all* the 88x31 buttons. Recently, I realised that I didn't scan for all the geocities subsites (e.g. de.geocities.com, br.geocities.com, etc). I've fixed that mistake and have added 1.8k new 88x31 buttons from Germany, Brazil, Hong Kong and many more international sites. Feel free to explore the updated site or download the zipped button archive (31k buttons, 156MB)

>>> hellnet.work/8831/ <<<

#indieweb #smallweb #geocities
#neocities #88x31

Reminder: You have until June 23 (tomorrow!) to submit your "tiny, homemade, personal webprojects", and, as a separate category, your "tiny, homemade multiplayer web projects":

tinyawards.net

#TinyAwards #indieweb #SmallWeb #websites

Tiny Awards

Tiny awards, tiny prize, tiny trophy, big love

^{tinyawards.net}

And now, pages.casa complies with #smolweb guidelines

pages.casa/register-on-pagesca…

Even @dillo can display it.

And #netsurf give the same render as firefox.

#smallweb #indieweb

New bookmark: ActivityPub on a (mostly) static website.

There have been other attempts to document the process of bringing ActivityPub to a (mostly) static site, but this is my favorite so far. I wonder if I should give it a go, if POSSE ever stops serving my needs.

Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #IndieWeb #Security #Web

My bookmarks

Links from around the web, curated and annotated by Rohan Kumar.

^{Seirdy’s Home}

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:

digitalocean.com/?refcode=9e27…

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

- marketplace.digitalocean.com/a…
- marketplace.digitalocean.com/a…

#indieweb #website #NotAnAd #referral

DigitalOcean | Cloud Infrastructure for Developers

An ocean of simple, scalable cloud solutions.

^{www.digitalocean.com}

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 kyledrake.com/writings/ai

One alternative I've found is nekoweb.org/

Background on NeoCities adding AI to their editor.

cohost.org/horseonvhs/post/566…

#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 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 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: matrix.to/#/#30DayFOSSChalleng…

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

#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."

jamesg.blog/2024/01/27/the-ind…

#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!

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.

My self-hosted, #indieweb #Twitter archive is up. Thanks to @eleventy and the excellent work done on the Tweeback project: github.com/tweetback/tweetback

You can find mine here: twitter.marcozehe.de

Also, if you read German, my German language archive is here: twitter.marcos-leben.de

GitHub - tweetback/tweetback: Take ownership of your Twitter data and get your tweets back

Take ownership of your Twitter data and get your tweets back - GitHub - tweetback/tweetback: Take ownership of your Twitter data and get your tweets back

^GitHub

I turned off cross-posting from and to Twitter now. It just doesn’t work for me. It feels weird to see RTs here and Mastodon handles on Twitter.

Mastodon is not a cheap copy of the hellsite, but a platform of its own with a healthy, respectful community. 💚

I will, however, microblog on my own personal website more and syndicate the posts to different platforms. #IndieWeb FTW! I wrote about it here:

matthiasott.com/notes/syndicat…

Syndicating Posts from Your Personal Website to Twitter and Mastodon · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

^{Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer}

The other day I published my first blog post on my new #indieweb -focused site. It's on my first contribution to an #opensource project: Bees.

vzqk50.com/Blog/bees-and-their…

#introduction time 👋

- I'm a writer, programmer and researcher based in Melbourne.

- My day job involves a lot(!) of #dataviz and my main tools of the trade are #d3js, #python, #R and #GIS software. But I also play around with p5.js and SQL on occasion.

- Outside of that, I'm looking to learn more about digital librarianship and curatorship, digital humanities, early internet and the #indieweb, live art coding, generative art and cool web design.

- I was also a #music journalist for a few years and I'm a classically trained singer, so I'm always keen to hear new recs

✌️