#indieweb 2026-01-16

2026-01-16 UTC
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fnhipster_ Ekul: Nice. Added!
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lunar.serval Hello
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capjamesg lunar_serval[d]: Hello!
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lunar.serval Im not sure how to navigate this discord, i was unable to use the chat on mobile and my laptop is dead
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capjamesg Welcome! #indieweb is for chatting about personal websites generally; #indieweb-dev is for technical questions about websites; #indieweb-random is the "watercooler" chat where random things can be discussed; #indieweb-events is about the events we run, and #indieweb-meta is the channel for discussing the community itself and the wiki.
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capjamesg You may enjoy exploring https://indieweb.org as you get started and coming here to ask questions / share what you make, or you can lurk and listen to what others' share, or share something you've already made!
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capjamesg [edit] You may enjoy exploring https://indieweb.org as you get started and coming here to ask questions / share what you make, or you can lurk and listen to what others' share, or share something you've already made!
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Ekul fnhipster_ awesome! 🔥
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capjamesg [tantek] Your 88x31 button is now on my button wall: https://jamesg.blog/buttons#buttons-from-websites-i-enjoy
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capjamesg [edit] [tantek] Your 88x31 button is now on my button wall: https://jamesg.blog/buttons#buttons-from-websites-i-enjoy
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Wojtek1 Hi everyone!
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Wojtek1 I recently build a posse flow for ghost syndication to mastodon and bluesky and wanted to share it with the community
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Wojtek1 And wonder if it would be possible to link it in your article about posse along with my blog that runs it
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Wojtek1 The posse flow is published at https://github.com/wpowiertowski/posse
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Wojtek1 And the blog is at https://behindtheviewfinder.com/
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capjamesg Feel free to add this to the POSSE page on the wiki!
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capjamesg What is POSSE?
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Loqi POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content https://indieweb.org/POSSE
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capjamesg ^^
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Wojtek1 I was looking at the wiki but don’t see an obvious edit button, let me try to register and login a
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capjamesg You can only edit when you are logged in.
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capjamesg You can log in with your domain name.
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capjamesg We have some instructions on https://indieweb.org/How_to_set_up_web_sign-in_on_your_own_domain 🙌
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capjamesg [edit] We have some instructions on https://indieweb.org/How_to_set_up_web_sign-in_on_your_own_domain 🙌
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Wojtek1 Oh sweet, thanks for the link
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zachary.kai Because I seemingly can't stop, I've created another directory! Feel free to suggest changes, sites, and edits! https://zacharykai.net/lists/crosscurrent
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capjamesg zachary_kai[d] ++!
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Loqi zachary_kai[d] has 9 karma in this channel over the last year (33 in all channels)
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girlonthemoon love the directories, zachary_kai!
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zachary.kai Thank you both so much!
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[Al_Abut] zachary_kai[d]++ very cool!
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Loqi zachary_kai[d] has 10 karma in this channel over the last year (34 in all channels)
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[social] zachary_kai[d]++ I really like the list and love the name
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Loqi zachary_kai[d] has 11 karma in this channel over the last year (35 in all channels)
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "A Website to Destroy All Websites #indienews 16 January 2026 #" https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/ (from https://artlung.com/indienews/bb7ab69d0a547f8a6988766f82b3a905)
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "How Markdown Took Over The World #indienews 9 January 2026 #" https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/ (from https://artlung.com/indienews/d5f50db49f2e75783bc3cc24bd5c5e9a)
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[artlung] ^ that's been an itch I've wanted to scratch for a while, to submit things to indienews which I did not write. And I sorted out the display after this, date and hashtag removed for final.
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "IndieWeb Carnival: Meaning of Life" https://kiko.io/post/IndieWeb-Carnival-Meaning-of-Life/
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gRegor [artlung]++ nice!
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Loqi [artlung] has 28 karma in this channel over the last year (228 in all channels)
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Bear Blog Discovery Feed" https://bearblog.dev/discover/ (from https://artlung.com/indienews/d72c3ef9bd52b1ac2b3c85b55c8b1951)
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gRegor He's on a bookmarking storm :)
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[artlung] Consider the itch scratched. The other one I wanted to submit was submitted by the author (I like to think at my suggestion)
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zacharykaiwrites [artlung]++ This is so cool!
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Loqi [artlung] has 29 karma in this channel over the last year (229 in all channels)
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[morgan] artlung++
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Loqi artlung has 30 karma in this channel over the last year (230 in all channels)
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Loqi [indienews] New post: https://stephango.com/file-over-app (from https://btrem.com/2026/01-bookmark-file-over-app)
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capjamesg [edit] We have some instructions on https://indieweb.org/How_to_set_up_web_sign-in_on_your_own_domain 🙌
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fnhipster_ How does the Loqi bot works and how can I add my blog to indienews?
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fnhipster_ I think I found the url https://news.indieweb.org/how-to-submit-a-post
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[tantek] what is relevant to the indieweb?
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Loqi Anything directly related to people with their own websites, such as technologies and services used, design and UX, formats and protocols, as well as events or podcasts with IndieWeb talks or content are relevant to the IndieWeb wiki https://indieweb.org/relevant_to_the_IndieWeb
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[tantek] Please read that first before posting to IndieNews
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gRegor what is Loqi
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Loqi Loqi is a friendly and useful bot, digital assistant present in the IndieWeb discussion channels https://indieweb.org/loqi
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[tantek] Well well well, not surprised: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/x-down-twitter-not-working-status-b2902008.html
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btrem Loqi, that's a lot of dev talk (UX, formats, protocols). Can you move to #dev to keep this channel more inclusive? :-D
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gRegor 🤞 please stay down, please stay down
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[artlung] 🤞 https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/indieweb-sickos/
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[morgan] GET SOME 👊
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[morgan] Sorry got excited for a second
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girlonthemoon [artlung]: that is so awesome lol love sickos
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gRegor lol [artlung]++
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Loqi [artlung] has 31 karma in this channel over the last year (231 in all channels)
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[aciccarello] All this recent news about governments shutting off the internet has got me thinking more about censorship resistance and p2p systems. But it seems like a rabbit hole.
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[tantek] that's like a diverging network of rabbitholes with a number of traps
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[tantek] what was Planetary
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "Planetary" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Planetary is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] wat
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gRegor what is ipfs
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Loqi friendly reminder [aciccarello], gRegor, it looks like this conversation is getting pretty technical (P2P, IPFS), can you take it to #indieweb-dev?
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Loqi IPFS is short for InterPlanetary File System, potentially a static site storage method using content based addressing https://indieweb.org/IPFS
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gRegor well dang, caught in one :D
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[snarfed] yup. if your threat model is state actors and all national ISPs, and you have to start looking at radio mesh networks or microwave or satellite providers...that's generally more ambitious than us here
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[snarfed] IPFS is well and good but doesn't help if you have no network connectivity
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[snarfed] but yeah sorry I fell victim to the rabbit hole nerd snipe, I'll refrain now 😆
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gRegor haha
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[artlung] I feel like somebody mentioned a store and forward scheme using radio in a HWC in the past 2 or 3 months.
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[snarfed] now they have two problems 😁
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[tantek] Planetary is /Secure_Scuttlebutt
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Loqi ok
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[artlung] I believe it was about messaging and the goal was security but we didn't delve into it too much. I can't find the link and that bugs me.
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[artlung] It didn't seem to overpromise which is a nice exception to secure comms/prepper networks typical hype
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gRegor oh I really thought you were referencing that term I won't mention, haha
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[tantek] every time I see prepper I can't help but read preppie. like bunkers full of IZODs and Le Tigre
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[artlung] [aciccarello] session from Berlin 2018 https://indieweb.org/2018/Berlin/censorresist
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[tantek] what is censorship
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Loqi https://indieweb.org/censorship
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