#indieweb 2025-12-23

2025-12-23 UTC
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valerieflynn Greetings from Colorado, USA. I'm an author, podcaster and learner. I found out about IndieWeb via Chris Aldrich's website by way of shared commonplacing interest.
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valerieflynn I'm just in the learning phase now and I have my own websites.
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valerieflynn Curious if there was any links to the "Domain of One's Own" concept/movement.
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valerieflynn I think it's very cool what you guys are doing.
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capjamesg Welcome valerieflynn[d]!
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capjamesg We do have a wiki page on Domain of One's Own: https://indieweb.org/A_Domain_of_One%27s_Own
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capjamesg [edit] We do have a wiki page on Domain of One's Own: https://indieweb.org/A_Domain_of_One%27s_Own
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Top Four" https://peterspath.net/blog/project-top-four/
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tantek.com Welcome valerieflynn[d]++
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chrisaldrich Welcome valerieflynn 👋
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valerieflynn Thank you tantek_com[d] & capjamesg[d] for the warm welcome.
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valerieflynn That's a great wiki on Domain of One's Own. Thank you for that link, check out few of the links on the page too.
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valerieflynn I'm curious does anyone in IndieWeb work on helping seniors or Gen X work on setting up their Domain of One's Own? I saw the great resources available on IW getting started page, but wasn't sure if there was more or different members were actively working to help the elderly?
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chrisaldrich what is getting started?
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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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valerieflynn Thank you chrisaldrich[d] ! It's because of you and your kindness over on Reddit I'm here. Your website is very impressive!
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chrisaldrich Thanks. Mostly it's a result of small, incremental changes over time.
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chrisaldrich What is a commonplace book?
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Loqi 📓 A commonplace book (or commonplaces) are a way to compile and store knowledge, usually by writing information into books, notebooks, card catalogs, or in more modern settings on one's own website https://indieweb.org/commonplace_book
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chrisaldrich I often find that it's not so much age that is a differentiator for getting on the IndieWeb, but level of technical ability, and the amount of time one has to potentially donate to it.
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chrisaldrich Do you have your own site valerieflynn?
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valerieflynn Yes, I have multiple websites, one is my own domain of my personal name.
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chrisaldrich valerieflynn++
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chrisaldrich have you tinkered around in the /DoOO space in the past?
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valerieflynn Technically not in collage, I spent the 90s onwards creating websites for my Dad and my family when he was alive. I have had reseller hosting for quite a few decades, the host has changed over the years. So I kinda had our own Domain space for 30+ years. Still learning new stuff all the time.
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valerieflynn So I was doing it, not knowing what it was called.
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[tantek] Back then I think it was called being on the web :)
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valerieflynn LOL, yep!
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chrisaldrich I don't think that Jim Groom or Martha Burtis turned Domain of One's Own into a marketing thing until sometime after 2006 when the blogosphere was already in full swing.
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valerieflynn Huh. Interesting. Never thought of it as a marketing thing.
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valerieflynn So , I'm thinking of turning my podcast website into an Digital Garden/online Commonplace book. But I'm not that system/organizationally wired.
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valerieflynn I do need to reread the WordPress index link you shared on Reddit. But what were some of the evolution of figuring out what worked for you?
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capjamesg [edit] We do have a wiki page on Domain of One's Own: https://indieweb.org/A_Domain_of_One%27s_Own
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[tantek] Instagram << Why NOT to create posts (even POSSE) to Instagram: [[LLM]] generated meta "keywords" and [[OGP]] "og:description" contents based on your post caption that may not reflect what you mean which then show up in [[link preview]]s of your post when shared in txt, chat etc.: https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/
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Loqi ok, I added "Why NOT to create posts (even POSSE) to Instagram: [[LLM]] generated meta "keywords" and [[OGP]] "og:description" contents based on your post caption that may not reflect what you mean which then show up in [[link preview]]s of your post when shared in txt, chat etc.: https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/" to the "See Also" section of /Instagram https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=106997&oldid=106390
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gRegor Whoa. Just checked my latest IG post and the meta description is my caption. Wonder what the deciding factor is for them to use AI slop for that :/
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gRegor I do set alt text manually for my pictures, though that seems like an odd variable to trigger that. Could just be testing on certain accounts I guess. Sucks in any case if it's not opt-in.
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[KevinMarks] They think because it's called a meta description it's Meta's job to fill it in.
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gRegor hahah
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[tantek] lol [KevinMarks]++
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[tantek] gRegor my guess is that there's a "simple" length threshold, i.e. if caption > n chars, then LLM gen og:description.
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[tantek] gRegor what do your meta keywords look like on that same post?
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[tantek] i.e. are the meta keywords a subset of words from your caption or are there keywords in there that are not part of anything you typed in (caption or alt)?
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gRegor My caption was pretty long, a few paragraphs, so would seem to be eligible for a summary. Let me check keywords.
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gRegor -> dev for more details
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[tantek] sounds good
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