#stream 2025-08-11

2025-08-11 UTC
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Loqi [mastodon.social/tags/webmentions] Today has officially been productive. I finally got around to displaying #webmentions on my blog posts. (https://pony.social/@axxuy/115007569594716046)
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Loqi [gregorlove.com] I updated my site to use the Libravatar CDN for avatars. If one isn't found, it will still fallback to Gravatar, so it should be seamless for commenters. I also updated the default icon to identicons, so people without avatars will get a nifty geometric image instead of the... (https://gregorlove.com/2025/08/i-updated-my-site/)
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Loqi [gregorlove.com] I updated my site to use the Libravatar CDN for avatars. If one isn't found, it will still fallback to Gravatar, so it should be seamless for commenters. I also updated the default icon to identicons, so people without avatars will get a nifty geometric image instead of the... (https://gregorlove.com/2025/08/i-updated-my-site/)
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Loqi [@mattl] Added a preview feature! https://mattl.github.io/simple-html-file-generator/ (expand it at the top) Thanks @alabut for the suggestion #indieweb (https://social.coop/@mattl/115007790876333192)
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Loqi [@flamed] 🔖 Bookmarked Seeing A Different Web (https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/tech/seeing-a-different-web/)... (https://social.lol/@flamed/115008073437858590)
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Loqi Okay, “make what you need” might be good for the IndieWeb’s future after all... (https://lordmatt.co.uk/replying-to-things/okay-make-what-you-need-might-be-good-for-the-indiewebs-future-after-all/)
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Loqi [@martin] https://multiline.co/mment/2025/08/our-website-is-closed-on-sundays/ by @ashur #indieweb (https://dice.camp/@martin/115009843352196247)
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Loqi [@digitalsnow] 📝 Week Notes, No. 32.25 - So It Goes… https://notes.krueger.ink/posts/week-notes-no-3225 #Blogging #WeekNotes #IndieWeb (https://social.lol/@digitalsnow/115010021551352080)
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Loqi [@timotheegoguely] 🕸️💍 Ces derniers temps, avec le copain Arthur Pons, on parlait pas mal des webrings et de la meilleure façon d’en créé un aujourd’hui selon nous. Et comme à son habitude, il a commencé à creuser l’histoire du truc jusqu’à en faire un article pour partager... (https://mastodon.design/@timotheegoguely/115010194391011259)
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Loqi [@lichendust] don't use AI at all? put it on ya website https://lichendust.com/human #smallweb #indieweb (https://sunny.garden/@lichendust/115010320726488635)
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Loqi [@artlung] Tuesday! Front End Study Hall! Join us for an informal space where we examine web pages and their styles, try to fix bugs and show what can be done and how to make sense of CSS and HTML+! 6pm BST/10am PDT/1pm EDT... (https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/115010630725902898)
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Loqi I’m coming around to build what you need I recently encountered a good counterpoint to my rejection of build what you need. Maybe it is okay after all. #IndieWeb (https://node.lordmatt.co.uk/2025/08/11/posts/me/im-coming-around-to-build-what-you-need/)
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Loqi [mastodon.social/tags/webmention] Can I ask a small favour from anyone with a few moments to go look at a web page?... (https://mastodon.social/@lordmatt/115010694356990336)
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Loqi [@donnacavalier] Remember webrings?... (https://wptoots.social/@donnacavalier/115010903460591383)
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Loqi [@dominikhofer] Number Go Up by Zeke Faux blends investigative journalism, social commentary, and true crime to recount some of the wildest crypto frauds – a ride I partly lived through in real time. https://dominikhofer.me/number-go-up #book #crypto #indieweb (https://social.lol/@dominikhofer/115011428099553304)
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Loqi [@artlung] I'm still trying to remember what site it was I had an account on where I did checkins but was NOT dodgeball/swarm. https://artlung.com/elsewhere/ - it may take a while before I feel like this page is complete.... (https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/115011515950832614)
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[tantek] what was Gowalla?
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Loqi Gowalla is a location checkin silo that operated from 2007 to 2012 and was then rebooted in 2021 https://indieweb.org/Gowalla
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[tantek] ^ [artlung]perhaps ?
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[artlung] YES!
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[artlung] https://artlung.com/blog/2011/01/14/mile-high/
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[social] Gowalla is back and running again.
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[artlung] Yeah, that was the story in 2020 that they were returning. Very much a [citation needed]. It doesn't seem to be resolving at all here today.
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[tantek] exactly, very much a citation needed. [social] gotta be more skeptical about relaunch announcements 🙂
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[social] https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/10/gowalla-location-based-social-app/ - Josh Williams brought Gowalla back and it has been in the Apple iOS app store since 2023 and I’ve been running it, but it is missing a lot of locations I regularly go. I don’t use it often, but I know a few past users who have been active since it came back.
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Loqi [@artlung] Aha! It was Gowalla! Thanks @tantek.com #IndieWeb (https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/115011599996764536)
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[tantek] tbh with Instagram launching "live" location sharing with friends / close friends / certain contacts only, I think that market is dead for a separate new app
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[social] I believe the relaunch of Gowalla is app only and not website.
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[tantek] like if you're not already on Swarm, forget it
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[tantek] yeah lol app-only relaunch. what century is it?
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[social] [tantek] I think we know / knew one of the artists who did some of the original badges for Gowalla.
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[tantek] I believe the artist that did the Swarm badges gave a talk at at a recent btconf!
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[social] The Swarm badges weren’t in the original Foursquare check-in app and it was one thing that Gowalla used to differentiate itself in its first version from Foursquare.
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[social] Cindi did some of the Gowalla original badges, if I remember correctly. She didn’t do all of them.
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[social] Oh, do you remember who did the Swarm badges?
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[tantek] https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2024/speakers/paddy-donnelly
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[tantek] ^ his talk video and transcript are on that page. search for "swarm" 🙂
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[social] Awesome! tantek++
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Loqi tantek has 6 karma in this channel over the last year (153 in all channels)
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[tantek] Swarm << Some background on Swarm badges from their designer in his talk at the 2024 [[btconf]] in Düsseldorf: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2024/speakers/paddy-donnelly
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Loqi ok, I added "Some background on Swarm badges from their designer in his talk at the 2024 [[btconf]] in Düsseldorf: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2024/speakers/paddy-donnelly" to the "See Also" section of /Swarm https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=103282&oldid=76290
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Loqi [@ilyess] If you have a blog, what do you use for comment management? #blog #comments #indieWeb #poll Third party comment provider like Disqus or Github Native comment management Webmentions Other (please specify in the comments) (https://mastodon.online/@ilyess/115012199194772730)
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Loqi [@leeperry] I've been prevaricating recently with my #indieWeb workflow. Here I talk through my current setup, options that I have been considering, the latest update to @mauricerenck indieConnector plugin, and why I will probably end up changing (almost) nothing at all.... (https://mastodon.scot/@leeperry/115012307469765562)
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Loqi [@reillypascal] Here's my entry for this month's IndieWeb carnival, hosted by @immarisabel! ... (https://hachyderm.io/@reillypascal/115012421541262664)