#indieweb 2026-04-16

2026-04-16 UTC
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[Kupietz] FNhipster++ . Totally fun homepage ascii art animation.
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Loqi FNhipster has 2 karma in this channel over the last year (3 in all channels)
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Loqi Homebrew Website Club - Pacific is starting soon! Join us! https://events.indieweb.org/z7mbQQTEn0Iy
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gRegor ^ I have another call at that time but might join later if it works out
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[artlung] Hope you can join gRegor!
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[fnhipster] Thanks! gotta make time to join one of the events. I've been intrigued about them.
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April Hello, I would like to RSVP for Dusseldorf event pls remotely.
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[tantek] hello april! that's great! edit this section on the wiki and add yourself: https://indieweb.org/2026/D%C3%BCsseldorf#Remote_Participation
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April Hello Tantek, Nice to e-meet you again here. So, I have neocities page at the moment. I think The Web Sign In feature isn't supported on it. Indie and RelMe. Is there any other way?
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[morgan] Hello Indieweb. Some of you love Zines! We are planning on the Wiki a zinefest event. Consider adding your name and date preferences if this interests you ! https://indieweb.org/pop-up
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[capjamesg] [Kupietz] The coffeepot project is no longer active, but there is more information about it, including screenshots, at https://jamesg.blog/2021/11/18/hypertext-coffee-pot.
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Loqi [preview] [James] Introducing the HyperText Coffee Pot
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laul yooo this shit is so cool omg
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laul just saw a video about indie web it sound amazing
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[capjamesg] Welcome laul!
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[capjamesg] The indie web is really cool 😄
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[capjamesg] If you’re looking for websites to explore, https://blogroll.org and https://neocities.org are great places to browse!
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[capjamesg] We’ve also got the community wiki which we use to document all things indie web too at https://indieweb.org.
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drunken_jedi Morning everyone :). I’m totally new here and frankly feel a little lost and overwhelmed. I realised I’ve become so used to being served content that I’ve kind of lost the curiosity I had when I was younger to go find fun and weird little websites that make me smile. I’m excited to find some cool stuff and maybe even learn a few things along the way 😊.
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[capjamesg] Welcome! You’re in the right place to learn more about personal websites 🙌
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[capjamesg] Do you have a website set up already?
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April Hi, so as ref earlier. I am in the website by authenticating with by Bsky. I am not sure the way I had done Wiki is correct
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April *logged in - indieweb
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[capjamesg] It looks like you are signed into the wiki with your domain name http://Aprilscable.neocities.org so all is good!
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April Yes. by using re=l or the code which was added there. Because couldn't do via neocitites directly
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April https://indieweb.org/User:Aprilscable.neocities.org
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April So this is my wiki right? And when I RSVP...how do I add it there?
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[capjamesg] Yes, that page is for you to write anything you want on!
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April Okay. Noted
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April In remote participants- https://indieweb.org/2026/D%C3%BCsseldorf Did I do that right?
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[capjamesg] Yes!
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April Noted. Thanks so much :)
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[capjamesg] No worries. Great work getting everything set up!
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April Thanks for helping! You all are very welcoming.
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drunken_jedi [capjamesg]: No I don’t, I dabbled very briefly with HTML in my teens but nothing since and that was uh… a long time ago lol 😅.
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drunken_jedi I saw on Neocities they do a course on it though so maybe I’ll do that. I already found some really fun and interesting little websites that sparked more joy in me than any number of soulless Reddit communities.
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[capjamesg] Yes! Neocities has a great onboarding tutorial that walks through HTML if I remember.
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[capjamesg] You might also like https://htmlforpeople.com
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[capjamesg] And https://phpforpeople.com/ is you are interested in PHP too.
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drunken_jedi Thanks 🩷 I’ll pretend I know what PHP means for now until I can read some more 🤭
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Loqi hey [capjamesg], drunken_jedi: we try to keep dev talk (PHP) out of this channel, can you move to #indieweb-dev?
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[capjamesg] 😄
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[capjamesg] Oops, yeah if we have any technical topics to discuss #indieweb-dev is the right place. My bad.
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drunken_jedi Oh ok sorry, I was just finding my feet that’s all. I’ll move over.
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[capjamesg] I can relate re: finding lots of fun websites to explore on the indie web.
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[capjamesg] I can easily lose an hour just clicking through people’s websites 😂
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drunken_jedi The few I looked at so far took me right back to the early 2000’s and it was amazing, some people are so talented and I wish I could unlock that kind of creativity in myself tbh.
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[capjamesg] I have found making web pages to be a great way to exercise my creative muscles.
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[capjamesg] Looking at others’ sites is really helpful in learning what is possible too.
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drunken_jedi Yes definitely, it’s fun to look at something you know what created by someone for the sake of creating and making something for themselves, rather than just more content for a huge platform meant to generate clicks.
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[capjamesg] 100%
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[capjamesg] Having fun and making things makes the web more wonderful.
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Announcing Nuchronic.uk" https://thechels.uk/announcing-nuchronic.uk
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "IWC DUS 2026 Feed List" https://danielpietzsch.com/links/iwc-dus-2026-feed-list
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[capjamesg] That’s a cool idea ^^
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aaronpk That'd be fun to automate on stream.indieweb.org
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[me1850] Didn't know about that site! Thanks! What does it aggregate? The `#indieweb` tag on mastodon.social? Or are there more sources?
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aaronpk A bunch of individual websites too
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aaronpk But only posts tagged with certain keywords
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aaronpk What is stream.indieweb.org?
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Loqi stream.indieweb.org is a web view of a stream of public posts with relevant hashtags across various services, that are also shown in the #stream chat channel https://indieweb.org/stream.indieweb.org
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[me1850] 👍
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[capjamesg] why << Your blog / website might help historians in the future build a perspective of what life was like when you were writing / publishing: <blockquote>It’s not clear how much that’s on the Internet will persist, or for how long. But there’s a decent chance that your individual perspective could survive centuries even though you’re “just a common person.“</blockquote>
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[capjamesg] https://thereabouts.bearblog.dev/why-you-should-write-stuff-down-and-document-things/
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Loqi ok, I added "Your blog / website might help historians in the future build a perspective of what life was like when you were writing / publishing: <blockquote>It’s not clear how much that’s on the Internet will persist, or for how long. But there’s a decent chance that your individual perspective could survive centuries even though you’re “just a common person.“</blockquote>" to the "See Also" section of /why https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=110122&oldid=109281
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[tantek] Hey April, congrats on your first wiki edits!
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[tantek] It looks like you got it very close. The wiki link you added doesn't work because it needs the "User:" prefix for MediaWiki to find your User: page in particular. And minor edit, looks like you changed the {{addyourself}} template to inlining its contents and it's preferred to keep the template so if we update the template the updates show up here too.
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[tantek] See here to see the difference: https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=110124&oldid=110108&rcid=110038
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Loqi [tantek]: we try to keep dev talk (template, PHP) out of this channel, can you move to #indieweb-dev?
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[tantek] hah once again Loqi picked up jargon in URLs
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April Hey Tantek
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April Hey Tantek
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April Oh, Noted! Thank you so much!
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April Will keep in mind. Thanks so much for your help.
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[tantek] All good! 👍
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April So, the word User was missing...ah..prefix one...Got it! Thanks for sharing the link showing the tweaks
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April I used Bsky to authenticate today :) It helped to get in here. & outages are going of Bsky today only haha
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hisacro waves
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hisacro so I was wondering does the indieweb include other protocols all together, or this group focuses on http ?
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[tantek] hi hisacro for technical discussion like protocols, let's continue in the #indieweb-dev channel. For here, welcome and let us know what's your personal website?
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Loqi hey hisacro, [tantek], that's a lot of dev jargon! protocols... can you move to #indieweb-dev?
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hisacro is the brige same for irc?
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hisacro *bridge
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[tantek] yes, the chats show up across clients. see https://indieweb.org/discuss for details
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hisacro thanks :)
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hisacro [tantek]: I write on displ.nl
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[tantek] very cool
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[tantek] I like the _ _ / \ _ _ art!
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[tantek] like an ASCII embossing
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hisacro cheers \o/
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hisacro I have also made some ascii arts
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hisacro drowns in .-', .
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[tantek] do you have a page of them or a page listing them?
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hisacro looks up
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hisacro I haven't collected those seperately, but embedded in wall of txt
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[capjamesg] hisacro I love your manga page!
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hisacro [capjamesg]: thanks!
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hisacro I abondoned that list after the initial update
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hisacro it's been 5+ years!
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[fnhipster] nice site hisacro. what's the story with the radio stations listed in /music? radio stations you like? do you stream radio online?
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[fnhipster] Oops I think I mean [tantek].
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[fnhipster] Slack got me dizzy. Who runs http://displ.nl? hisacro?
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[tantek] Yes
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[fnhipster] got it. thanks!
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hisacro [fnhipster]: those radio stations listed are places I listen
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hisacro near the end of 2020 I ran my radio shows as well
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hisacro archives of setlist https://displ.nl/rad/
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hisacro awes at number of bridges this chan has
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hisacro very cool
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[fnhipster] nice. I wanted to add an indie station, just for fun in http://fnhispter.com, but got into a rabbit hole of licenses, what I could or could not stream, and abandoned that idea.
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hisacro it depends on the type of music you are planning to stream
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hisacro in my case, most of them are tape recording either from radio or discogs
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hisacro mostly not from big studio backing $$
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Good, Standard Work: Creating the Commons" https://brennan.day/good-standard-work-creating-the-commons/ (from https://gregorlove.com/2026/04/bookmarked-good-standard-work/)
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[fnhipster] That makes sense. I opted to create playlists for people to play on their own music provider.