#meta 2020-12-02

2020-12-02 UTC
#
[tantek] great improvements on the /outreach wiki page folks!
#
tantek.com edited /story (+20) "/* Criticism */ give it a heading, Causes FOMO" (view diff)
#
loqi.me created /FOMO (+55) "prompted by ndegruchy and dfn added by ndegruchy" (view diff)
[tw2113_Slack_], [eddie], [chrisaldrich], [Raphael_Luckom], dopplergange and [snarfed] joined the channel
#
@ChrisAldrich To test some image creation tools and simultaneously have some fun, I made a series of creative "advertising cards" for the IndieWeb. I'd love to hear folks' thoughts about them in general. [more...] https://boffosocko.com/2020/12/01/indieweb-advertising-cards/ (twitter.com/_/status/1334011266218659845)
[chrisaldrich], [jeremycherfas], swentel and [tantek] joined the channel
#
@lewisnyman ↩️ Definitely, it sounds like a good warm up for the next @indiewebcamp (twitter.com/_/status/1334047127014666240)
#
@CaenCamp Vous avez de l'appétence pour les technologies décentralisées : ActivityPub, IndieWeb, Solid, ... Mais vous n'avez pas encore trouvé de champs d'expérimentation ? Venez le mercredi 9 à 19h, on aurait besoin de vous. https://cutt.ly/rhjBSJ2 (twitter.com/_/status/1334051125650079744)
[Rose] joined the channel
#
[tantek] [chrisaldrich]++ these are gorgeous! https://boffosocko.com/2020/12/01/indieweb-advertising-cards/ — well folks it looks like we have our first day of the IndieWeb Gift Calendar! Released under CC0 also. Beautiful
#
Loqi [chrisaldrich] has 30 karma in this channel over the last year (83 in all channels)
#
[tantek] !tell [chrisaldrich] only nit, I would have called them Inspirational Posters 🙂
#
Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
#
[tantek] !tell [chrisaldrich] s/Reap what you sew/Reap what you sow
#
Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
#
[tantek] yeah these are great, we should use them in rotation on the screens before IndieWebCamps (and during breaks!)
#
[tantek] !tell GWG WDYT of [chrisaldrich]'s inspirational IndieWeb posters as placeholder material to have on the Zoom room in HWC when you've opened the room and are waiting for the official start time?
#
Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
#
tantek.com edited /2020-12-indieweb-gift-calendar (+95) "day 1: chrisaldrich's IndieWeb Inspirational Posters" (view diff)
#
[tantek] and now that it's past midnight PST, we can start adding things to 12/2 as well!
#
tantek.com edited /2020-12-indieweb-gift-calendar (+124) "day 2: HWC The Americas!" (view diff)
#
tantek.com edited /2019-12-indieweb-gift-calendar (+84) "see the current calendar" (view diff)
#
tantek.com edited /2020-12-indieweb-gift-calendar (+25) "credit gifters like we did in 2018" (view diff)
#
petermolnar !tell [chrisaldrich] re: https://boffosocko.com/2020/12/01/indieweb-advertising-cards/ - hats of for the effort, and idea is great - but I miss the fun, even if it's something as simple as https://cloud.petermolnar.net/index.php/s/SicjjEaxQyJbRL9 would be. All the images and the typography used in the cards you shared are way too much hero-image, and instagram "mindfullness" to me.
#
Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
jjuran joined the channel
#
jeremycherfas [chrisaldrich]++ petermolnar++
#
Loqi [chrisaldrich] has 31 karma in this channel over the last year (84 in all channels)
#
Loqi petermolnar has 5 karma in this channel over the last year (35 in all channels)
#
jeremycherfas There's room for lots of different takes here, hot and cool.
#
jeremycherfas As for "Keep the web ..." my own feeling is more along the lines "Create a weirder web ..."
#
[tantek] jeremycherfas++ indeed, and different messaging to appeal to different generations^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H audiences
#
Loqi jeremycherfas has 7 karma in this channel over the last year (37 in all channels)
#
jeremycherfas https://despair.com/collections/demotivators is full of js but fun if you don't mind that.
#
[tantek] if someone is feeling more on the 😈 side, they could make such "demotivators" that simply had factual summaries of what the silos are doing
#
[tantek] I mean they've got a head start already: https://despair.com/collections/demotivators/products/social-media-icon
#
petermolnar jeremycherfas: the web is still weird, but encountering that weirdness is tricky. I follow a few people on tumblr and through them, I encounter "WTF :D" moments basically daily.
#
tantek.com edited /social_media (+232) "despair demotivators social media icon" (view diff)
#
jeremycherfas Agreed, I occasionally come across weird and wonderful things. I'm angling for people to make more of them. Both work.
[jgmac1106], [KevinMarks], [Ana_Rodrigues], sebbu, ethanyoo, [arush], [Raphael_Luckom] and [chrisaldrich] joined the channel
#
[chrisaldrich] thanks tantek... the knitting one inspired the reaping one, so obviously my mind was stuck in the earlier framing. I'll tweak it this morning...
#
aaronpk These are great haha
#
[chrisaldrich] Some of the thrust of these "posters" was limited by the free presentation options that were provided by the tools. A lot of the photography available lends itself to that instagram mindfulness bit. Some of the fun was trying to come up with indieweb relevance for randomly presented photos... Maybe one day I'll share some of the snarkier failed attempts that weren't as fit for public consumption. 😉
#
[chrisaldrich] I do like the idea of keep the web weird ones...
#
aaronpk Minor nit: some of the IndieWeb.org text doesn't have enough contrast against the photos
#
[chrisaldrich] I did try a couple using the decaying silos photos, but I couldn't find anything on their licensing: https://www.behance.net/gallery/52646779/Social-Decay
#
[chrisaldrich] Remember I made these as tests.... One or two of the creation tools were incredibly simple and didn't offer much in the way of colors for contrast. I was also trying to stick to the red, orange, yellow colors for those parts.
#
[chrisaldrich] Most of these card creators are pretty slick--even the basic ones. Some are so clean and slick they make you seem more artistic than you ever could be. Others were more limiting even though they do a not too terrible job.
#
[chrisaldrich] There was one I felt a bit guilty (but not) placing indieweb.org over the shining sun as a metaphor....
#
[chrisaldrich] I think I spent more time copying over the alt-text to post them on my site than I spent making them, so feel free to criticize.... I still have one or two other of these tools to play with, so I'll try to touch up a couple as I can.
#
[chrisaldrich] Maybe I can find some openly licensed photography here: https://twitter.com/darkstockphotos
ethanyoo joined the channel
#
[chrisaldrich] Maybe this for a commentary on visiting Facebook or Twitter? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEArdaNW4AA55BU?format=jpg&name=large
ethanyoo joined the channel
#
[chrisaldrich] Incidentally, some of the best worst ones I made and didn't post used this: https://imgflip.com/demotivational-maker
#
jeremycherfas Have you looked at unsplash.com?
#
[chrisaldrich] Thanks [jeremycherfas]. I've seen it and it's on my list. Some of the tools build into various repositories via API. Pixabay may have one of the easier APIs as there were a few using it. (or maybe they have a broader license on their photos?)
#
[chrisaldrich] There's also some possible inspiration to draw from these national parks posters with their one star reviews: https://www.boredpanda.com/one-star-reviews-into-illustrations-national-parks-amber-share/ (for doing anti-silo art, naturally)
[tantek] joined the channel
#
[tantek] I like these as inspiration to draw from: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/
swentel joined the channel
#
petermolnar we definitely need one with the stereotypical black hoodie hacker in a dark room
dopplergange, [Raphael_Luckom], [mapkyca] and [chrisaldrich] joined the channel
#
[chrisaldrich] https://media0.giphy.com/media/O5xChSjqUIxsk/giphy.gif
#
[chrisaldrich] I tweaked the text of the original post to inspiration from advertising. Also got that sew/sow typo.
#
[chrisaldrich] I do like those NASA posters...
#
@Pauho Just a reminder that we don't have to use the corporate web - options such as the #Fediverse and #Indieweb are available. Find me there at https://ift.tt/3pFmAyS and https://pauho.net (twitter.com/_/status/1334210787213275136)
[tantek] joined the channel
#
vilhalmer what automated thing generates these tweets?
#
aaronpk IFTTT apparently
ethanyoo, [schmarty], [Emma_Humphries] and [jeremycherfas] joined the channel
#
@theprincessxena Site Update: WebMention Support https://christine.website/blog/webmention-support-2020-12-02 #indieweb (twitter.com/_/status/1334248012340744199)
[asuh] joined the channel
#
@theprincessxena ↩️ https://indieweb.org/Webmention It's basically an @-mention that works across websites instead of social media users (twitter.com/_/status/1334260018175205380)
#
vilhalmer oh, it's always the same account
#
vilhalmer I thought maybe it was some onboarding tool
[tantek] joined the channel
#
tantek.com edited /naming (+259) "add indieweb relevance to dfn" (view diff)
[KevinMarks] and [Emma_Humphries] joined the channel