#indieweb 2026-01-04
2026-01-04 UTC
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[morgan] @osteophage I really enjoyed your article, it made me think, for now I might send a email reply
# [morgan] @christopher-besc Incredibly good webpage there, that has real educational value for people
# [morgan] My recent post on my website is about praising the original 1989 world wide web website and browsers for still making it work in 2026. Also I document an example of updating the 1989 website ever so slightly in HTML to something 'fresh'. For me this was a way to revisit some really enduringly good qualities about the web: https://www.morganwebdev.org/posts/an-updated-world-wide-web/
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# [Al_Abut] That's an interesting experiment [morgan]. Makes me want to do the same but for layout.
# [Al_Abut] Reminds me of the old series 37signals used to do with public redesigns of other websites:
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# christopher-besc @Al_Abut and @morgan, thank you so much for the kind and motivating words!
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# gusseting Greetings! As per Tanteks post: (https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://tantek.com/2026/001/t1/no-socials-january ), I'm looking to restart my personal website gusset.net - I have the domain, but I need to get myself a new host and am looking for recommendations. After someone anti AI and indieweb friendly, whom is simple and cheap to use for a tiny site. I've previously used wordpress, but hasn't there been something rancid going on? Is there
# gusseting something non rancid CMS wise (or another way?) to build sites with these days? Been tinkering with HTML since 1998.
# ikiru gusseting maybe check out https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started#Set_Up_Hosting
# ikiru personally i use nearlyfreespeech.net
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Loqi Web hosting can be the primary regular cost in maintaining an IndieWeb site; this page lists several options from free on up depending on your publishing needs, like a static, shared, private, or dedicated server https://indieweb.org/web_hosting
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[tantek] from you noted it sounds like you are looking for a shared hosting provider: https://indieweb.org/web_hosting#Shared_Hosting
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# blacklight I'm working on Webmentions implementation on my blogging platform (Madblog). If it works I'd also like to submit a PR to WriteFreely. I was investigating if there were any discussions about Webmentions on Mastodon (or any other Fediverse-compatible software) and found this https://rknight.me/blog/mastodon-webmentions-and-privacy/
# blacklight What would be the best practices from a UX/transparency perspective to avoid any issues with "I didn't know that my comment would end up on your website?", and thus ensure that any discussion about Webmentions with the Mastodon dev community doesn't get stuck on the privacy issue again?
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[KevinMarks] This is a good read on why to blog https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/
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# [KevinMarks] Site Death warning for livejournal https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2y4g225
# ttakuyaki. 👋
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# osteophage [KevinMarks]: The Blogging in the Ruins post is one we also discussed at the 32-Bit Cafe: https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins-ja-westenberg/4012 (I had some objections)
# osteophage Also, thank you Tantek and Morgan. Looking forward to that email, if you're still so inclined.
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# Loqi A blog (or weblog) is an online journal or diary typically written by one person (there are some group blogs) about whatever subjects they wish (like science or politics), usually on its own domain, often a personal IndieWeb site; blog or blogging is also the act of posting to a blog; there is also a .blog top-level domain https://indieweb.org/blog
# osteophage Tantek: that part of my message was for Morgan. Sorry if that was unclear.
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# [snarfed] more background: https://snarfed.org/2024-01-21_moderate-people-not-code
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# blacklight [tantek]: I fully agree - I also see the inconsistency with saying yes to content being broadcast and republished over ActivityPub relays, but no to the same interactions being broadcast over direct HTTP hooks
# blacklight [tantek]: has there been any discussion with Webmentions support in ActivityPub software? The trivial use-case would be "I write a Mastodon post that links your site, your site gets a notification, even if you're not on the Fediverse". I'd like to submit a PR to WriteFreely first, and then explore what's the stance on Mastodon and Pleroma/Akkoma
# blacklight @Loqi: sure :)
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simpleauthority Hello everyone :) I recently learned about IndieWeb and I am looking forward to joining and getting started on my own website.
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