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thamara_k there is some spam in the Discord #overview channel. I don't see a folder in the GitHub repo for this channel
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doesnm i don't think this channel are ever logged or bridged
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thamara_k Yeah thought so. Will need one of the server admins to remove it, not sure who that is cc [tantek] aaronpk gRegor
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aaronpk weird, i thought that channel was blocked from anyone posting in it
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aaronpk deleted and banned
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aaronpk and i just made the channel so you can't post in it
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thamara_k aaronpk++
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Loqi aaronpk has 32 karma in this channel over the last year (100 in all channels)
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[artlung] !archive https://events.indieweb.org/2026/09/homebrew-website-club-us-pacific-G35mctZoJ5pF
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blog.orbitalalchemists.org sc created /User:Blog.orbitalalchemists.org_sc (+1028) "Created page with " = Orbital Alchemists = '''Orbital Alchemists''' is an independent technology studio building sovereign, decentralized personal content infrastructure, run by Simon Challinor. == About == Orbital Alchemists operates infrastructure and builds tools centered on user data ownership, open file formats, and decentralized storage. The organization's flagship project is TextRoots, a modular personal content operating system designed around local-first plain text and relatio..."" (view diff)
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[tantek] there was a site built in 2006 called "SingleStatus" (yes they used the .us) domain that tracked MySpace relationship status of people you were interested in being notified of when they switched their status to "single" (literally as the name implies). It got shut down in something like 10d but not before making a lot of news / waves. It was built by a colleague, I think inspired by ideas tossed around at a SuperHappyDevHouse (monthly
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[tantek] events that predated today's hackerhouses). It's long gone but I'm wondering if it's worth documenting on the wiki since it is at least silo adjacent, and was an independent attempt to providing more value/information out of a silo than the silo itself wanted to. More context: https://techcrunch.com/2006/06/15/myspace-nukes-singlestatus/
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[tantek] (it would almost certainly be deleted on Wikipedia for insufficient notability, even if I cited like 4-5 reliable secondary sources. 😕 )
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artlung.com uploaded /File:2026-09-17-FrESH-Group-Photo.jpg "Group Photo https://indieweb.org/File:2026-09-17-FrESH-Group-Photo.jpg"
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[artlung] !archive https://events.indieweb.org/2026/09/front-end-study-hall-058-XpyEl7l1tFML
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jamesg.blog created /events/2026-09-17-front-end-study-hall (+8103) "Created event page using IndieWeb events / Etherpad archiver" (view diff)
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