For the #IndieWeb ideals of independence from intermediaries, not requiring corporate platforms or other organizational intermediaries¹, the best systems we have still depend on organizations. However they are all swappable, at will, by the individual:1. domain names, depend on registrars, which you can sw... tantek.com

The #IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants to be part of the world-wide-web of interconnected people. The social internet of people, a network of networks of people, connected peer-to-peer in human-scale groups, communities of locality and affinity.These peer-to-peer links should not require corpora... tantek.com

@snarfed.org posted a great overview of thoughtful (and sometimes heated) discussions across blogs and the #fediverse about how freely should “public” posts & comments on the web flow across sites:“Moderate people, not code” (https://snarfed.org/2024-01-21_moderate-people-not-code)If you are designing or c... tantek.com

The first IndieWebCamp of the year has been planned!🎪 IndieWebCamp Brighton🗓 2024-03-09…10🏢 The Skiff, Brighton, England🎟 Tickets available 2024-02-01!Event: https://events.indieweb.org/2024/03/indiewebcamp-brighton-2024-xRTP2hAZOvZdWiki: https://indieweb.org/2024/Brighton Questions about #IndieWebCamp? As... tantek.com

Still remembering #aaronsw, eleven years, two days ago.Previously, previously, previously:* https://tantek.com/2017/011/t3/moment-remember-aaronsw* https://tantek.com/2016/011/t4/three-years-lost-aaronsw* https://tantek.com/2015/011/t1/still-missing-aaronsw* https://tantek.com/2013/059/t1/doj-prosecutors-a... tantek.com

31 days of #IndieWeb gifts: the _2023 IndieWeb Gift Calendar_ (https://indieweb.org/2023-12-indieweb-gift-calendar) wrapped up a full month of IndieWeb-related creations & updates from the community (and sometimes beyond) to everyone who wants to improve their #IndieWeb experience. From plugins & libraries... tantek.com

Time to begin again: restarting my #100Days of #IndieWeb project for 2024, as a #100Posts of IndieWeb project, and congrats to the IndieWeb community on a fully completed 2023 IndieWeb Gift Calendar!Last year I completed 48 out of a planned 100 posts in my #100DaysOfIndieWeb project, for nearly 48 days (so... tantek.com

No large language models (LLM) were used in the production of this post.Inspired by a subtle but clear sign-of-the-times one-line disclaimer at the end of RFC9518’s Acknowledgments (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9518.html#appendix-A-4)  “No large language models were used in the production of this docu... tantek.com

Writing about writing: capture first, edit & publish later.Braindump timely thoughts & experiences into as many draft notes as it takes, while ideas & memories are fresh.Collecting higher fidelity memories seems more important than editing past writings or finishing/polishing a post for publishing, which c... tantek.com

at the first ever #IndieWebCamp San Diego, documented a bunch of discussions and content in new and updated wiki pages on https://indieweb.org/ and updated my home page static events listing.#IndieWeb wiki pages created, from small stubs to longer and reasonably thorough:* https://indieweb.org/December* ht... tantek.com

at a fascinating #Threads meetup hosted by Meta in San Francisco, with a handful of great #dataportability #fediverse #indieweb #openweb folks, learning about and providing feedback to Threads folks about their #federation #ActivityPub and other #openStandards support plans.Chatham House rule¹ means we can... tantek.com

coding at #IndieWebCamp Nuremberg, completed the following projects:0.0: fixed the https://chat.indieweb.org/ footer to drop #Matrix as an access option since their bridge is disabled (#IndieWeb IRC, Discord, and Slack still work great), and provided an explicit link/encouragement for filing issues0.5: inv... tantek.com

Inspiring mix of perspective expanding and personal talks at border:none (https://border-none.net/ @border_none) the past two days. Thanks speakers, volunteers, and especially organizers @marcthiele.com (@marcthiele@mastodon.social @marcthiele) and @jkphl.is (@jkphl@mastodon.social @jkphl).Looking forward ... tantek.com

Great article on #POSSE by David Pierce (@davidpierce@mastodon.social @pierce) @Verge:https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodonSeveral key points of POSSE explained in the article:First, post on your own site: “In a POSSE world, everybody owns a... tantek.com

Implemented liking/favoriting of #Mastodon posts via Bridgy Fed on my site! (Actually of any post on any site that #BridgyFed can discover an #ActivityPub endpoint to send likes to.)Tested it by liking @evanp.me (@evan@cosocial.ca @evanpro)’s reply¹ confirming that he received a notification from my prior ... tantek.com

Bridgy Fed (#BridgyFed) recently added support for federating @-@-mentions to #Mastodon: https://fed.brid.gy/docs#mentionSo here’s a test:Happy birthday @evanp.me (@evan@cosocial.ca @evanpro)!!!Let’s see if Evan receives one or more notifications of these mentions, especially on cosocial, directly from my ... tantek.com

More Thoughtful Reading & Writing on the Web tantek.com

I recently wrote a high level summary blog post:W3C Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC) Meetings 2023https://tantek.com/2023/262/b1/w3c-technical-plenary-tpacof my time at the #W3C (@W3.org, @w3c@w3c.social, @W3C) #TPAC the week before.Posting this note to explicitly #hashtag that article with ... tantek.com

W3C Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC) Meetings 2023 tantek.com

I was traveling when I heard the news about Molly Holzschlag (@mholzschlag).https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/090523_molly_holzschlag/tucsons-molly-holzschlag-known-as-the-fairy-godmother-web-dead-60/Her #CSS #accessibility #OpenWeb contributions are well documented. May she be at peace. Apprecia... tantek.com

Threads.net now supports the #indieWeb #microformats #openStandard rel-me for distributed ✅ verification!¹ (supported since 2023-08-09)My Threads profile already had my domain since it was created from my Instagram profile.View source on https://www.threads.net/@tantek and you can see the #relMe on a link ... tantek.com

June #trailRunner #ultraRunner weekends3 finished #MUC50k @InsideTrail #RodeoBeach 9:38:28, my 3rd #50k #ultraMarathon #trailRace11 volunteered @TheDipsea #DipseaRace at #MuirWoods18 finished @BrokenArrowCA #BA23k 5:22:54 #RingDasBell, my 1st #skyRace24-25 crewed pal @davidtlam @wser.org 100mi to a success... tantek.com

Two anniversaries today: microformats (18y) and POSSE (11y).Happy 18 years of https://microformats.org/ #microformats!Most prominent this past year (again) has been the littlest #microformat that could:rel=me — AKA #relMe, now effectively the standard for #distributed #verification on the web:* https://mic... tantek.com

If you added a #Mastodon / #ActivityPub follow form to your #IndieWeb site based on Bridgy Fed (e.g. using code/instructions I previously posted¹), you need to update it to add another invisible input element for the "protocol", e.g.:Otherwise people trying to use your form to follow you may see an error f... tantek.com

At least stop reading Facebook & YouTube algorithmic feeds, and turn off all #socialMedia notifications.

More from @mantonsblog: https://www.manton.org/2020/09/14/stop-using-facebook.html

@aaronpk How to leave Facebook: https://aaronparecki.com/2020/06/14/14/how-to-leave-facebook

Want smaller steps? https://indieweb.org/Facebook#Howtoweanyourselffrom