#indieweb 2022-12-19
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[chrisaldrich] What is a dictator?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "dictator" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "dictator is ____", a sentence describing the term)
# [chrisaldrich] I can be the dictator of my own site, and you yours, but there's a major inequality and lack of freedom for people stuck in a silo run as a dictatorship like Twitter now and FB to a lesser extent.
# [chrisaldrich] Is escaping a dictatorial silo experience a new reason /why Indieweb? We had a freedom sort of framing but we've not seen this sort of silo experience at this scale before beyond silo deaths.
# [chrisaldrich] I've got most of them in a folder with alt tags written. I'm waiting for good wifi while traveling with the family to do a bulk upload.
# [chrisaldrich] I'll try to get them up tonight at the hotel when the family sleeps
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cambridgeport90[ I keep forgetting to check on the awesome topics up here... but I have a bit of a pickle, and I figured that you guys might be the best ones to discuss it with. What do I do with my short domain, which I sort of fell in love with, at this point, considering Twitter is dying, so there's really no point in using it on the Fediverse for POSSE, since most admins of most fediverse servers frown upon that, some calling it malicious. I
# cambridgeport90[ think that a few of us on here have short urls; tantek definitely comes to mind.
# cambridgeport90[ My basic question is, for those of us who do have them, how can they be used outside of a POSSE scenario?
# Loqi short domains are commonly used on the IndieWeb for personal short URLs, or clever domain names https://indieweb.org/short-domains
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[tantek] re: how can they be used, see: https://indieweb.org/short-domains#Why_personal_short_URLs
# cambridgeport90[ In the documentation for Mastodon, in particular, it says that short links are not recommended. See here. Link shortening... (full message at <https://libera.ems.host/_matrix/media/v3/download/libera.chat/f6a914369b222fec52caaa5bc0e8d1d3335900d2>)
# cambridgeport90[ Yeah, hence why I was confused. That's the only place where I can find that documentation guideline at all. My markdown did something weird, but I linked to the actual page at the bottom of the message. It was hard to see it, though, because it didn't get parced correctly.
# cambridgeport90[ Other servers have ran with that; scholar.social being one, I think who explicitly bans short URLS anywhere, not even in your profile are you allowed to have one. Then again, they have other issues that make me wonder about them.
# cambridgeport90[ dang. I sense a documentation edit... perhaps, or at least a talk with Gargron, because with Mastodon, you can't just submit a pull request to fix the documentation.
# cambridgeport90[ I think you're right.
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gRegor This is interesting, similar website finder: https://explore2.marginalia.nu/ entering my domain returns a lot of common indieweb sites
# [tantek] aaronpk, your like here: https://aaronparecki.com/2022/12/18/6/ is perhaps a good example / use-case for storing external reply-context information
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# virtue an indieweb chat! but is it active (・_・;)
# [tantek] virtue, judge for yourself by the archives: https://chat.indieweb.org/
# virtue ooo
# virtue i shall!
# virtue fairly! i give it a 6.8/10 on my activity scale!
# virtue i like the code of conduct! i think i may add this channel to my join list :3
# virtue tempted to purchase a domain instead of using a neocity purely so i can use php to automatically fetch all images in a particular directory instead of manually listing every single one
# virtue i have avoided making the art page on my neocity purely out of dread over having to manually list, link, and alt text every single one of the hundreds of photos ive taken
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# Loqi The social web map is a metaphoric map of social web sites, from fully indieweb to silos, representing their relationships, sizes, levels of IndieMark accomplishment (or site-death) and any other axes of interesting details we can capture https://indieweb.org/social_media_map
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@kevinmarks @GalaxyKate There was also this one 3 years later. https://xkcd.com/802/ Topical highlights: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkV0QPFXEAACY0D.png (twitter.com/_/status/1604817288418525184)
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