#stream 2026-01-04

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Loqi [@enfors] Work on my TTRPG site is proceeding well, and hopefully I should have something announce-worthy within a few days.... (https://ttrpg-hangout.social/@enfors/115833883506137264)
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Loqi [@inautilo] ”A blog alarm clock lives inside me. As time passes, an uncomfortable pressure builds up until the alarm finally goes off, rattling my bones and my soul. Snoozing isn’t an option; the only way to turn the alarm off and release the pressure is to publish a blog post.” —... (https://mastodon.social/@inautilo/115834375929077678)
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Loqi [@tyron] I love that @adam created https://url.town I’ve found more interesting websites from my 20 minutes of perusing this URL directory than I have over the last couple of years searching on Google. Viva la #indieweb (https://social.lol/@tyron/115834664060426475)
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Loqi [@jakesmolka] Perks of trying to pick up blogging in 2026 again: finding out my RSS feed is broken. There's virtually no reason for folks to actually subscribe to it, but that's also a nice way to learn that no one does 😬 #indieweb (https://hachyderm.io/@jakesmolka/115835540978042154)
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[tantek] ^
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Loqi [@frontenddogma] 2026: The Year of My Website, by @TheIdOfAlan: https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/37/gf/6i/sa/ #indieweb #socialmedia (https://mas.to/@frontenddogma/115835713178223511)
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Loqi My Seek 2025 Year in Review:... (https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://tantek.com/2026/003/t1/seek-2025-year-in-review)
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Loqi [@gusseting] @tantek.com I would love to set up my own website again. Just posted to #indieweb re: looking for a host, as I've previously been with siteground who are now powered by AI #noai for me... are there #websitehosting recommendations for indieweb? (https://mastodon.social/@gusseting/115836019110592456)
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Loqi [tantek.com] My Seek 2025 Year in Review:... (http://tantek.com/2026/003/t1/seek-2025-year-in-review)
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Loqi [@Tipa] New #DailyBlogroll with stories by @davew, Syp, @WarnerCrocker, Krista, @wilhelm_arcturus, Azuriel, Luna, @zarfeblong and more! https://westkarana.xyz/ #WorldOfWarcraft #PillarsOfEternity2 #RingFitAdventure #IndieWeb (https://gamepad.club/@Tipa/115836995779881813)
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Loqi [@susam] A test page with 2000 randomly generated entries to answer a question from the HN comments section: https://susam.net/code/test/2k.html Actual page size is 240 kB and the compressed transfer size is 130 kB. #webdev #web #indieweb #programming (https://mastodon.social/@susam/115838005207313251)
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[tantek] Wat
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Loqi [@pheonix] You tell an llm to write function but you gotta recheck and possibly refactor it before adding it to your code base. What was even the point then huh? #noai #llm #programming #testing #enshittification #python #golang #rust #javascript #indieweb (https://fosstodon.org/@pheonix/115838125961759016)
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[tantek] Hah not indieweb but good point!
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Loqi [indieweb.social/tags/indieweb] I’m falling down the rabbit hole of #blogging and the #indieweb. Does anyone know of good resources to get familiar with the core concepts and first steps? I’m a bit overwhelmed by the amount of information out there and not sure what I should focus on or where to start.... (https://social.lol/@yvan/115838226696248913)
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Loqi Grosse mise à jour de mon blog ce soir, avec un nouveau thème. Un retour à la simplicité pour moi. C'est ce que j'avais envie et besoin. Et ça me fait beaucoup de bien. 🙂‍↕️... (https://social.alyve.be/objects/5d6f2804-7424-40af-a7ca-2f3a95199431)
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[tantek] ^ how about the /start page?
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Loqi [@rodmoi] https://rm-o.dev/til/paste-joining-lines/ #blog #til #indieweb (https://mastodon.social/@rodmoi/115838261867952491)
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Loqi [@brennan] How Can We Use the Internet for Good? | 🔗 https://brennan.day/how-can-we-use-the-internet-for-good/ #politics #indieweb #activism #writing #philosophy (https://social.lol/@brennan/115838269223890895)
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Loqi [@rodmoi] https://rm-o.dev/til/linux-unattended-upgrades/ #blog #til #indieweb (https://mastodon.social/@rodmoi/115838258634745768)
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Loqi [@Amgine] #IndieWeb question related to scraping and permalinks: has anyone developed a method to reduce/address AI scraping?... (https://mamot.fr/@Amgine/115838573266993168)
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[tantek] what is LLM crawling
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "LLM crawling" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "LLM crawling is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] LLM crawling is /large_language_model_traffic
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Loqi ok
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[tantek] what is LLM crawling
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Loqi Large language model traffic is (AKA LLM crawling) the phenomenon of web requests made by LLM operators to ingest data for use in training AI models, or to answer user queries in “search” mode (like ChatGPT Search), which tend to ignore robots directives and overwhelm personal blogs, community sites, and other smaller websites https://indieweb.org/LLM_crawling
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[tantek] what is LLM scraping
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "LLM scraping" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "LLM scraping is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] LLM scraping is /large_language_model_traffic
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Loqi ok
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[tantek] what is AI scraping
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "AI scraping" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "AI scraping is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] AI scraping is /large_language_model_traffic
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Loqi ok
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[tantek] what is LLM scraping
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Loqi Large language model traffic is (AKA LLM crawling or AI scraping) the phenomenon of web requests made by LLM operators to ingest data for use in training AI models, or to answer user queries in “search” mode (like ChatGPT Search), which tend to ignore robots directives and overwhelm personal blogs, community sites, and other smaller websites https://indieweb.org/LLM_scraping
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Loqi [@artlung] @Amgine on the #indieweb wiki several of us have been trying to document “AI” scraping’s impact - it may be useful to you to click through to the mitigation schemes mentioned. https://indieweb.org/large_language_model_traffic (https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/115838597009569028)
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[tantek] [artlung]++ 🤝
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Loqi [artlung] has 16 karma in this channel over the last year (222 in all channels)
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Loqi [@flamed] 📝 New Post: Music I Listened to in 2025 A recap of the music I listened to in 2025 🔥 https://flamedfury.com/posts/music-i-listened-to-in-2025/ #Music #Listening #Personalweb #Indieweb #Blogging (https://social.lol/@flamed/115838808069356869)
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Loqi [@spottyboypress] Yay I finally finished coding my website! It turns out that I was avoiding updating my Wordpress website because I didn't have enough granular control over it to make it mine - and that I actually like making websites.... (https://mastodon.social/@spottyboypress/115839151552574040)
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Loqi [@stefan] Letting your unused domains expire is a form of self-care. #indieweb #webdev (https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115839508793563072)