#indieweb 2026-07-09

2026-07-09 UTC
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Loqi Homebrew Website Club - Pacific is starting soon! Join us! https://events.indieweb.org/sErqRaOjdvZT
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[artlung] Indeed! Starting
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MundusImaginalis Hi all! Nice to meet you all
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[pcarrier] hi! got a website, or looking to get one? 🙂
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "75 reasons to start a personal website" https://jamesg.blog/2026/07/09/75-reasons-to-start-a-personal-website
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doesnm i don't have enough fantasy to post in blog lol
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[tantek] this is a great article about the social benefits of a very lightweight sense of "presence" and something I distinctly remember from the times the same way the writer does. I wonder what this would look like today, using our websites for perhaps peer-to-peer distribution of our "presence" and "status", lighterweight than notes obviously: https://a.wholelottanothing.org/aols-instant-messenger-was-the-unsung-hero-of-the-early-aughts/
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[tantek] [capjamesg]++ your blog post about 75 reasons to start a website is great and I love the whiteboard photo!!! drafting/outlining a blog post on a white board is awesome
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Loqi [capjamesg] has 43 karma in this channel over the last year (224 in all channels)
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[tantek] it also made me think of: 🎶 I've got 99 reasons to start a website and a silo ain't one 🎶
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[capjamesg] Thank you! I think the whiteboard was the perfect place to start this post because I started having ideas quickly and I needed to write them down.
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[capjamesg] Going to the other room to open my computer would have been slower than picking up the pen and starting.
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[tantek] also the computer is more distracting, a problem that no UI has actually solved yet
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[tantek] "be as focus-enhancing as a blank white board" <-- seriously no general purpose laptop, OS, app has solved this
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "IndieWeb Fiction Carnival: May 2026 Roundup" https://werd.io/indieweb-fiction-carnival-may-2026-roundup/
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gRegor reading that AIM article and re: presence, someone recently set up a little bar at the bottom of each page showing stick figures of people on the site. you could move them left and right and even chat. I forget what site it was.
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gRegor found it via indienews: https://kiko.io/post/TownSquare-Chatting-with-Strangers/
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