#indieweb 2024-08-05
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[tantek] I am figuring out a transition strategy for reducing and eventually stopping referring to people using their Twitter @-handles. Step one is a new policy of if they haven't posted on a social media account in the past year, then I will take that as information that they don't want that profile used refer to them as part of their identity. Treating such absences as quiet quits as it were.
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catgirlin.space am confused how monocle and stuff is supposed to actually work. like, ive followed some stuff in aperture, but still nothing in monocle? confusing >.<
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# [morganm] Sometimes I hold back from learning a particular topic and then when a good course or learning material comes along then I dive in
# [morganm] ready to do this for web components, Scott Jehl has a course on kickstarter, due soon
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capjamesg[d] catgirlin_space0[d] Does Aperture say something like 0 items under any of the feeds that you have subscribed to?
# capjamesg[d] I ran into an issue where sometimes it wouldn't register some feeds.
# capjamesg[d] If Aperture says 10 items or whatever the number is, that indicates it may be an issue with Monocle.
# capjamesg[d] aaronpk is the expert here 😄
# capjamesg[d] I love the visitor counter on this website: https://webpaige.dev/
# capjamesg[d] [edit] I love the visitor counter on this website: https://webpaige.dev/
# capjamesg[d] Scroll down to "Visitors" toward the end of the page.
# capjamesg[d] You can refresh the page to see it in action.
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# catgirlin.space capjamesg[d]: no, they all have entries…
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# [Jo] who here has a podcast
# [Jo] http://tenor.com is giving a 403 on every page haha
# capjamesg[d] I like this one: https://tenor.com/view/happy-new-week-gif-5699110896396012500
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# [tantek] I am considering a tactic of timely posts that are a one-sentence summary of the timely facts. optional one sentence summary of how it felt/feels. optional "Previously" section that links to prior posts on the topic, and finally, closing with a line of hashtags so you can more easily find the post in the future (to link to it from the eventual more thorough post).
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# [tantek] yeah there's some overlap, though re: "obviously harder to write long(er)" — I am reminded of Pascal's quote: (en translation thereof) "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. " https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal#Quotes
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# capjamesg[d] Start. The rest comes later.
# capjamesg[d] That's my attempt at making it shorter 😄
# [morganm] Not my utter best writing but I am so happy today, a blog post that I wrote about a year ago and didnt get a lot of enthusiasm for or at least it felt flat at the time, now has a new enthused reader who works in civic tech and may influence web performance policies https://www.morganwebdev.org/posts/guidelines/
# [morganm] (I republished it today, after he asked about it)
# capjamesg[d] [morganm]++
# [morganm] literally its what its all about. its why one may consider getting a domain, putting words somewhere, so that someone reads it, and it forms some kind of new connection
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# beanbrain does anybody have any experience with dreamhost?
# beanbrain i have a domain and mail through them, but i want to set up web hosting through vultr,
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# beanbrain and i'm very confused about how to configure vultr to send mail back to dreamhost,
# beanbrain or if i should migrate the whole thing away from dreamhost alltogether, and to what, if so
# [snarfed] https://indieweb.org/DreamHost#Indieweb_examples has a few people
# beanbrain i have seen them, but
# beanbrain *but wasn't sure how they could help.
# beanbrain ah i'll add myself to that channel thanks
# beanbrain it's a little strange, but i wonder if i should just reach out to them and ask what is their experience
# outsidedontclear I everyone sorry im not more active in this server lol. Ive been wondering how I would get started with indieweb?
# [morganm] I guess there would be the wiki and other things with advice to get started, but I would prefer to say it starts in your ideas and thinking, approach the web as something that works for you and that you control rather than giving up yourself as easily to algorithmic feeds and platforms which get worse by the day
# [morganm] Thats my inspirational chat heh
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# outsidedontclear [morganm]: oh trust me I know im so done with algorithms
# outsidedontclear I just dont know how to even start haha
# [morganm] Do you own a domain or used one before?
# [morganm] Theres definitely a lot of ways to potentially get started, but basically (from what I have gathered) the real energy around here is about owning your online presence, and that usually starts with a domain
# [morganm] its more like renting, but there are many options
# [morganm] https://home.omg.lol/ < - one example I came across recently
# [morganm] Basically do whatever it is you love online but if your excited about being indieweb find ways to create and do online stuff thats more sort of durable and long lasting or unmediated . A bunch of folks around here are constantly tooling their websites and related web stuff to give it this sort of feel
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Loqi 🎉 Get started on the indieweb by connecting with the IndieWeb community, getting a personal domain, a place for your content, and setting up your home page and other IndieWeb essentials https://indieweb.org/Getting_started
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gRegor https://events.indieweb.org/tag/hwc they're in a couple different timezones
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