Rebecca writes that it’s nice to receive comments directly on her blog,
“… but then, comments haven’t exactly disappeared. They are well and alive on Facebook and Instagram, but why does it just feel different?”
Search Results for: #indieweb
Liked: Rebecca Toh – The Old Internet…
“…for now we can take back the internet by going back to creating our own websites and blogs and even newsletters and relying less, far less, on the cursed social networks.”
Moral responsibility
While there has been much written about content ownership – especially in an #indieweb context – I have long espoused a moral aspect to it.
The theory is that if your words are on your own site then you are likely to be more considered before hitting the publish button.
Liked: My IndieWeb story, Part 1: Jumping in the Deep End…
“I hope it presents both some technical aspects of the IndieWeb but more so introduces how the IndieWeb experience is personal and is shaped by each individual.”
Liked: The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR) // Sebastian Greger…
“it is with a mix of curiousness and concern that I try to wrap my head around some of the challenges of creating social interactions in a decentralised manner, while respecting the privacy of people and keeping them in control over their own data”
Liked: Wrapping My Head Around Micro.blog and IndieWeb – JSON Writes…
Even the IndieWeb website doesn’t do a great job of explaining what it is, or what it means to “join the IndieWeb”. As far as I can tell, it’s a collection of practices and technologies that connects independent blog-type websites together into a quasi social network.
When taking the decisions I have about leaving the major social networks over the past few years (LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, Facebook, Twitter) and moving towards a more #indieweb online existence I am aware that I am placing myself within a certain community with certain ideals.
Bridging the gap
Eli Mellen wrote a great post about how the #indieweb needs to be more accessible to non-developers. It prompted some considered response including this post from Jeremy Cherfas in which he points to a response from Peter Molnar. And then there is “An Indieweb Podcast” from David Shanske and Chris Aldridge.
Indieweb replacements
With a view to replacing Workflow with Drafts (at least as far as is currently possible) I decided to look at posting #indieweb like and replies directly from the app itself.
Owning it
In a conversation on micro.blog (also a comment thread here Eivind Hjertnes asked why I chose to microblog on WordPress rather than using a hosted account at micro dot blog.
The initial answer was simple – I’ve had this WordPress blog since 2008 so it just made sense. But, as I’ve said before, it goes way beyond that and is very much the driving factor behind a lot of what I’ve been doing lately in culling various accounts.