#indieweb 2026-05-24

2026-05-24 UTC
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[morgan] Im trying a slightly different format of posts out on my website, where maybe every month I will post a https://www.morganwebdev.org/posts/list-of-lists-may-2026/. Basically just bullet point lists of topics or stuff thats interesting to me. In my head this is meant to be a practical way to still post something of an update but also allow for it to be brief, since it could be random or several topics. The main point is that these are not
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[morgan] generated also just like, this was direct.
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[morgan] Curious if anyone has good thoughts to share, ways to adjust it etc.
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NewGuy Hi
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stonepick Only one week until the end of May! If you guys are interested in the Book Club pls feel free to take a part in! For detailed info see: https://en.dailyminz.org/2026/04/18/IndieWeb-Book-Club-May-2026-To-Live/
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April Hey Morgan! I like it..It is short and sweet...I am sure if you'd like you can expand further too
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April Stonepick - I've added in the TBR - don't know if I'd be able to finish it this month. Thanks for hosting
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sandra The bridge between Bsky and Fedi has recently become way more awesome (with the li'l webpage where you can reply, like, or reblog with interactions from unbridged people. Love that!).
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sandra [snarfed], It used to be that once we did that, we could never ever undo it in order to instead use that domain for a "real" account. Is that still the case?
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sandra So now I want to set my domain to the bridge and I found an easy guide now how to do that but I just have one question:
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sandra (I might still consider doing it but if it's no longer the case, i.e. if you now can undo the domain assignment, it becomes a no-brainer and I'll do it immediately.)
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Joining the IndieWeb Zine Pop Up" https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/24/joining-the-indieweb-zine-pop-up
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[capjamesg] I love the ideas of stickers as an entry point into a topic.
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[capjamesg] I sent a fellow blogger a microformats sticker and they wrote “The microformats one I had to look up, to be honest. Prompted by this search, I’ve now added those to my website as well”
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[capjamesg] (https://kedara.eu/now/2026-05/)
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stonepick April: No problem, always welcome!
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Zegnat Booked my flight, so IWC Nuremberg here I come! (Now to make sure I have a place to stay and so on.)
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[capjamesg] Yayy!
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GWG Zegnat: Yay
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Loqi yay!
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Zegnat GWG: I am guessing you are not gracing us this year?
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GWG I do not believe so.
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GWG For the foreseeable future I'm trying to limit myself to places with non-stop flights to NYC
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[tantek] yesterday I went through and deleted a handful of email aliases (to my domain) that only get spam now. reminded me I need keep creating new ones for services so I can continue with such cleanup as needed. it does seem to make a difference (I don't know why some spammers only harvest obscure aliases, like they're not smart enough to or don't care enough to find "main" aliases)
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[tantek] or perhaps these are aliases that got leaked via data breaches so the more evil spammers (phishers etc.) seem to be focusing on those. perhaps sloppy services getting data breached is another reason to give out aliases to random sites that need them so when they get breached, it's less cleanup work (delete the alias)
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zak is anyone there
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[jeremycherfas] Depends. 😀
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[tantek] what is a chicken?
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Loqi 🐔 chicken is a type of post supported by idnoKnown, and were initially a proof of concept for post-type plugin development, but high levels of chicken interest in the community has driven further development https://indieweb.org/chicken
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[capjamesg] [morgan] https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/24/joining-the-indieweb-zine-pop-up
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[capjamesg] What is domain swap?
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Loqi ♻️ A domain swap is a meetup at which attendees bring lists of domain names they've collected and swap them between each other in hopes that others might find them useful https://indieweb.org/domain_swap
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hisacro eyeballs at domain swap
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[tantek] how do people like to repair links in old posts? like invisibly just updating them? or replacing with Internet Archive copy as of the time of your post? or some mix of both?
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[tantek] I am leaning towards "simple" replacement with the IA copy as near to the my post publication datetime as possible, with a parenthetical about when the original was found to be broken. Going to try that to see if it sticks
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[tantek] I decided against linking to an updated (where the link is now, was redirected to at some point) because that information was both not known at the time of the post, and can be derived if someone is really curious by navigating the provided Internet Archive copy
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[tantek] also moving any broken shortlinks to said parenthetical since putting them first would likely mislead a reader (human)
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[tantek] updated post with repaired link. that might be enough to start a stub page. I suspect others here occasionally repair links in their posts and it would be good to start to gather indieweb examples to see if there are any patterns we can generalize from
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[tantek] what is link repair
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "link repair" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "link repair is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] link repair is the practice of repairing broken hyperlinks on your personal site, especially on older posts where the links were valid as of the time of the post but have stopped working since.
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Loqi ok
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[tantek] link repair << longevity
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Loqi ok, I added "[[longevity]]" to a brand new "See Also" section of /link_repair https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=111046&oldid=111045
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[tantek] longevity << link repair
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Loqi ok, I added "[[link repair]]" to the "See Also" section of /longevity https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=111047&oldid=109353
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[tantek] link repair << IndieWeb Example: {{t}} repaired a link in https://tantek.com/2010/031/t2/world-moving-to-html5 to use an Internet Archive version, noting in a parenthetical that the original link and its shortlink were found to 404 as of a more recent date, thus also implying the date of repair. The original post test including old shortlink is still viewable at the Twitter syndicated copy.
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Loqi ok, I added "IndieWeb Example: {{t}} repaired a link in https://tantek.com/2010/031/t2/world-moving-to-html5 to use an Internet Archive version, noting in a parenthetical that the original link and its shortlink were found to 404 as of a more recent date, thus also implying the date of repair. The original post test including old shortlink is still viewable at the Twitter syndicated copy." to the "See Also" section of /link_repair https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=111048&oldid=111046
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[tantek] link shortener << link repair
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Loqi ok, I added "[[link repair]]" to the "See Also" section of /link_shortener https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=111049&oldid=102290
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[tantek] I encourage anyone else who deliberately capitalizes their multiword hashtags (beyond say proper nouns which are already capitalized) to add their examples to the hashtags page: https://indieweb.org/hashtags#IndieWeb_Examples
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[tantek] I really appreciate that https://bluecheckhomes.com/ is still up & running five years after the fact (prank)
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