#indieweb 2025-05-26

2025-05-26 UTC
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[tantek] Amazing. Sounds like a great resource!
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rosipov what's a zine? I've heard the word before but don't know the meaning
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Kolev magazine
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rosipov ah cool
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osteophage Yeah a zine is like the indie version of a magazine. They have a particular history of being created with black-and-white photocopiers by DIYers and activists, but it's become common to see digital ones as well these days.
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rosipov oh that's what that San Diego zine shop does
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osteophage https://www.loc.gov/collections/zine-web-archive/about-this-collection/
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osteophage [edit] https://www.loc.gov/collections/zine-web-archive/about-this-collection/
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perryflynn The wizard zines from Julia Evans are great. https://wizardzines.com/
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paperbritt osteophage[d]: Thanks for sharing this! I love zines. They are probably the closest thing to the personal site and blog that existed before the web.
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osteophage Definitely.
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[Jo] i think i should also share the zine archive that goes back to the 30s https://fanac.org/
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Robert1 Is @aaronpk in this room?
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Robert1 I'd like to have my user page removed from the wiki.
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doesnm Robert1: you can just delete it maybe
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zachary.kai Two great websites I find super useful: https://www.textfixer.com/ https://photocopyeffect.com/
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zachary.kai [edit] Two great websites I find super useful: https://www.textfixer.com/ https://photocopyeffect.com/
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zachary.kai [edit] Two great websites I find super useful: https://www.textfixer.com/ https://photocopyeffect.com/
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capjamesg zachary_kai[d]++
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Loqi zachary_kai[d] has 3 karma in this channel over the last year (9 in all channels)
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capjamesg These are cool sites!
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osteophage Agreed. Saved these for the next time I update my Useful Links page.
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zachary.kai capjamesg[d]: Scott, the fellow who makes them is so generous to put them together!
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[tantek] Feels very early web, and that's a good thing
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zachary.kai I have a question, if that's alright. I'm looking for a Slack eplacement for my family. Just need a chat app that works on older phones, is free, and is relatively easy to use. Any suggestions? Your help is much appreciated as always!
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zachary.kai At the moment I'm thinking of Discord, but was just wondering if there's something better you'd suggest, if anything.
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capjamesg Signal may be worth a look if you are looking for a group chat.
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Kolev For group chat, try Snikket. https://snikket.org/
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Kolev IWDiscord, Snikket works great as a family chat. We use it.
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[tantek] Or Mattermost if you're up for self-hosting. It's very slack-like and chill
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doesnm i think rocket.chat would be better by user ux
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perryflynn there is also matrix/element. (I am here via matrix and heisenbridge irc bridge)
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Kolev I am here via Biboumi on Snikket.
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doesnm i'm here via goguma and soju
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[tantek] Wow so many bridges
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[tantek] IRC is truly the common backbone
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Kolev [tantek], yes.
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[tantek] perryflynn, is heisenbridge something others can use or is that something private / friends-only that you have setup?
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[tantek] what is Snikket
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "Snikket" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Snikket is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] what is Soju
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "Soju" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Soju is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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perryflynn [tantek]: it's on github, I run it as docker container on the same system as my matrix instance: https://github.com/hifi/heisenbridge
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Loqi [preview] [hifi] heisenbridge: a bouncer-style Matrix IRC bridge
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[tantek] a-ha so a self-host solution. maybe that's sufficient for folks coming from Matrix
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perryflynn you have to install one instance per matrix instance afaik. but the setup is easy. not even a database or so necessary, as the settings like linked irc networks are stored in synapse.
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Loqi hey perryflynn, would you mind moving this more technical conversation (Docker, database) to #indieweb-dev? thanks!
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[tantek] oops sorry, I should have taken the convo to #indieweb-dev once I saw it was self-hosting based
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perryflynn :-D
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[tantek] I'll add a note to the /discuss#Matrix
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[KevinMarks] see also https://pypi.org/project/ftfy/
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[KevinMarks] oops , I was scrolled up. That was for zachary.kai
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