#indieweb 2026-02-11

2026-02-11 UTC
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tantek.com do you have a personal website? you mentioned writing a digital garden, have you started publishing it?
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seb.the.canadian tantek_com[d]: Yeah! Iā€™m primarily working on the garden here: [https://cognitivearchitecture.ca] and thanks to inspiration from this community I have a personal webpage here: [https://sebthecanadian.ca]
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Weeknote 2026-W06: Bookwyrm, CNY, NB 2002R & AI" https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w06/
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[tantek] the interactive graph on that digital garden is very cool!
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[tantek] will be interesting to see how you evolve your personal site and digital garden! lots of folks here also experimenting with different approaches, figuring out things as we go
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seb.the.canadian [tantek]: I can't take credit - but it's a big reason why I love Obsidian!
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capjamesg Welcome seb_the_canadian[d] šŸ‘‹
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burgeonlab Hi and welcome seb_the_canadian! I like the little pixel greenery along the borders!
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Rethinking Where I Publish My Content" https://elliottrichmond.co.uk/rethinking-where-i-publish-my-content/ (from https://artlung.com/indienews/ed447fd6ab9fb490fe8f919214fc389d)
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NucleicAcidTest hi :p
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mahboubine hi
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mahboubine have mini indiewebcamps meetups been hosted? especially outside europe/usa
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mahboubine what I mean by mini is that it only includes members living in the meetup's location?
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[artlung] https://indieweb.org/IndieWebCamps and https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club are the two sites. Brasil is not represented by the latter but has had events in the past year. https://events.indieweb.org/ has future (and past) events on it. If you have questions about getting started many here would be glad to answer questions!
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mahboubine thanks, that's what i was looking for
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mahboubine I decided to host a homebrew website club online meeting
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mahboubine but I don't have any experience in informing people
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mahboubine is there info on what exactly I should say say in the meeting?
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mahboubine how to efficiently encourage non-technical people to get into it
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gRegor Nice! We've documented some steps here on the wiki: https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club#How_to_Organize_Virtual_Events We can probably discuss more in #indieweb-meta
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mahboubine sure, i'll join there.
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NegateThis How do y'all decide when something should just be a tag vs a new subpage?
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mandaris Hello! I've joined through the web interface instead of discord.
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[Murray] o/
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mandaris I'm hoping that it makes me only come here when I'm able to talk AND listen.
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[Murray] @NegateThis: after years of struggling with that very question, the digital garden stuff I mentioned earlier will ultimately turn all tags into pages of their own, specifically so I can stop worrying about that šŸ˜„ (it's a little driven by patterns I picked up from Obsidian, and I really like it overall)
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[tantek] NegateThis++ asking the hard questions šŸ™‚
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Loqi NegateThis has 4 karma over the last year
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NegateThis [Murray]: So what happens if a post has multiple tags? Is it available at multiple slugs?
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[aciccarello] I've used tags to collect related posts. So instead of a TIL page, I tag posts.
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bubbybumble that's how it is working on my site. if I click one of the tags it only shows posts with that tag
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[aciccarello] https://www.ciccarello.me/posts/tags/til/
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bubbybumble do SSGs like hugo typically automatically handle SEO for you?
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[aciccarello] bubbybumble, the SEO would be handled by whatever templates you have. I assume most Hugo templates have some level of SEO
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Loqi friendly reminder bubbybumble [aciccarello], we try to keep jargon (SSGs, templates) out of this channel to make it more inviting to newcomers, can you move this to #indieweb-dev?
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[aciccarello] True, true
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Loqi Homebrew Website Club - Eastern is starting soon! Join us! https://events.indieweb.org/YSe1jf9bk953
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bubbybumble [aciccarello]: ok, thank you
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bubbybumble Loqi: didn't realize this. is jargon unwelcome to newcomers? oh well
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[tantek] what is jargon
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Loqi jargon is a specific unobvious word, concept, or technology (like Webmention), re-use of a word to mean something other than its common meaning (like feed), or sometimes re-using a word as an acronym (like POSSE), or any abbreviation that requires developer knowledge or skills https://indieweb.org/jargon
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bubbybumble lol
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bubbybumble theres a whole page for the word jargon
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gRegor gives Loqi some jargon
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Loqi laughs at the jargon
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bubbybumble this bot is more advanced than chat gpt
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bubbybumble šŸ¤Æ
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bubbybumble \
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[tantek] šŸ˜„
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[Murray] @NegateThis: yep, exactly. The long term goal is to turn all tags into the digital garden "seed" analogy. Once there are a few notes, articles, etc. linked to a tag, it becomes a "sprout", and then I can go in and add a proper definition, start gardening it properly, to turn it into a "sapling" etc. Always liked the metaphor šŸ˜„
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[Murray] but the other nice thing with that metaphor is that plants end up growing together, so if a post has multiple tags, it begins to built up a "related pages" style network, and then that can slowly help reveal bigger patterns and things worth turning into proper articles
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[Murray] at least, that's the theory; need to actually finish the implementation šŸ˜„
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