#indieweb 2023-09-07

2023-09-07 UTC
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[aciccarello]
Would have been fun to join the HWC Europe while I'm here but I was out getting drinks at the time.
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Loqi
life has 2 karma over the last year
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tyil
HWC?
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[aciccarello]
What is HWC?
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Loqi
Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with blogging! https://indieweb.org/hwc
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[aciccarello]
Glad to see http://micro.blog recommended in this thread!
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Loqi
[preview] [Matt Haughey 🦣] I hate it when you follow a link to a really great blog post and you're two paragraphs in thinking oh my god this is really good but then a modal popup window from substack asks you to subscribe to this newsletter and you have to hit "continue readin...
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c​apjamesg
That is a good thread.
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[manton]
Nice, glad to see that recommendation. Matt’s right that too many platforms are reader-hostile now. “Subscribe now”, “Accept cookies”, “Download the app to continue”, etc.
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tyil
I had one of those today, someone mentioned a linux magazine on fedi so I looked it up, first thing that happened when opening the site was a popup to subscribe to their newsletter
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tyil
I don't even know what you're about yet, why would I want to subscribe right away?!
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[tantek]
Substack << Criticism: will it last? Thread: https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/111020301146427089
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Loqi
ok, I added "https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/111020320007737221" to the "See Also" section of /Substack https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=89200&oldid=89199
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Loqi
[preview] [a new hope :blobcatcoffee:] got a domain renewal notice for another side project i never did.................
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rubenwardy
I need to exercise restraint to not buy domain names
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c​apjamesg
Today I lost sandwichesand.coffee
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rubenwardy
expired?
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