#indieweb 2026-11-02

2026-11-02 UTC
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reissfrost It’s regarding a inactive twitter account. A few other things which I would prefer to keep between me and him
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[snarfed] https://tantek.com/contact
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Loqi [preview] Tantek Çelik
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[tantek] Yeah I’m not really chatting about any Twitter account. Best you treat Twitter as defunct and not worry about anyone's accounts there
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reissfrost We’re reaching out about a potential trademark infringement involving a Twitter account we believe you own
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[tantek] Nah I doubt it. All my accounts are pretty generic names
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reissfrost https://x.com/falcon
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IWDiscord <r​eissfrost>
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reissfrost This one to specific
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aaronpk lol that is not how trademark laws work
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reissfrost We hold a trademark for Falcon and are interested in the @falcon handle. We noticed the account appears to be inactive. We wanted to know whether you be open to discussing a transfer.
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aaronpk filed on july 31st?
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[tantek] Nah there are lots of products and services called Falcon in various industries. Maybe check Wikipedia disambiguation page for examples and an actual IP lawyer about generic terms like that.
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[tantek] I suggest picking an account name that includes your industry or what the product is about. Like if your product is gears (random example) then something like Falcongears
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[artlung] Here's a gentle reminder to all here that this is a public channel, logged and archived into source control. And also, learn to take "no" for an answer.
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[tantek] I'll also point out that for example http://instagram.com/falcon is NOT me, and these days instagram is a much more popular and influential social media platform overall
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[tantek] Also in the theme of indieweb, consider pursuing your own domain name instead and post from there
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simpleauthority That was entertaining to read.
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[tantek] 🍿
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[aciccarello] haha, that was something...
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[Leo] having a short username is a a bit of a curse
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[Leo] I get the occasional person wanting to buy my gmail account
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trwnh lots of "your username is too short" on various services as well 😔
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[tantek] blame Twitter
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[capjamesg] What is crossposting?
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Loqi Cross-posting is the social media practice of syndicating or placing the same content, possibly slightly modified, on numerous different websites https://indieweb.org/crossposting
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[capjamesg] POSSE << https://francescrossley.com/all-our-eggs-in-one-archive/: <blockquote>I always thought POSSE didn’t apply to me because I don’t do social media and whatever but actually yes, a huge amount of my online life is completely out of my hands. It ought to exist with me and then be crossposted elsewhere. AO3 shouldn’t be the canonical source - not because it’s not great but because it’s not mine.</blockquote>
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Loqi ok, I added "https://francescrossley.com/all-our-eggs-in-one-archive/: <blockquote>I always thought POSSE didn’t apply to me because I don’t do social media and whatever but actually yes, a huge amount of my online life is completely out of my hands. It ought to exist with me and then be crossposted elsewhere. AO3 shouldn’t be the canonical source - not because it’s not great but because it’s not mine.</blockquote>" to the "See Also" section of /POSSE https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=114421&oldid=107734
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[tantek] Nice. Yeah the AO3 outage is waking up a bunch of people
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lecaseus Hey guys, I noticed that my u-photo isn’t loading on the webring for a few months now but when I right click on it and open image in new tab, it loads fine? I’m not sure whether its a me problem or the webring
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lecaseus might be because it’s set to hidden on my code?
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[schmarty] hi lecaseus! what's your URL on the webring?
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lecaseus [schmarty]: https://cheztervargas.com
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[schmarty] looks like maybe hotlink protection on http://cheztervargas.com? the request is being blocked, possibly because the webring directory page is on an unexpected domain.
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lecaseus Ahh yea that makes sense, I remember doing something in cloudflare that blocks scrapers and AI from reaching my site
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lecaseus I’ll check it out, thanks!
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[schmarty] thanks for reporting the issue! for what it's worth, the image request is coming from the browser (not a scraper or bot), but is likely being blocked because of some cross-domain rule or anti-hot-linking rule on cloudflare.
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[schmarty] fun site design, by the way. is that your actual heart rate data??
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lecaseus Thank you, its not mine though but I got it on Physionet which is open access
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[r1y] fun website for sure [schmarty] love the crt scanline effect ❤️
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[r1y] ah, sorry @ the wrong person 😳
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lecaseus haha lol, the ones that flicker more are very cool imo but I never really found a template to use so I just manually made mine in CSS
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lecaseus It was, in fact, cloudflare's hotlink protection setting lol. Thanks again [schmarty] !
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[schmarty] lecaseus: hooray, glad it's sorted out!
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[tantek] lots in here about /moderation failures, worthy read for anyone implementing comments of any sort (webmentions or otherwise) on their personal site or any indie site: https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-remembered-deactivated-22501548.php
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