Tagged "indie-web"

I think one of the biggest barriers keeping people on silos like Xitter from joining the independent web (even me saying 'silo' proves my upcoming point) is the idea of pretentiousness. However you feel about it, there is a truth to it: we use a lot of jargon and a lot of us act like we've made the "smart" choice.

As someone trying to get more people to choose indie, it becomes a tightrope walk: if I want to own it, and accept being fairly isolated; or try to be more palatable to the masses, and thus dilute my true feelings.

Well, at this point in my life I have accepted being pretentious, but I at least try to be friendly and patient.

2023-08-26, 22-29 | brilokuloj@zirk.us | indie-web

I know I'm not out here hiring artists so it's not for me, but as someone who likes looking at other people's art, at this point I'd take inaccessible self-hosted portfolios to still-inaccessible-anyway portfolios on Instagram clones.

2023-08-24, 12-44 | brilokuloj@zirk.us | indie-web enshittification

Here's some articles I managed to find about other people attempting the same:

https://btrem.com/2021/01-microblog-11ty

https://lewiswrites.software/post/microblogging-with-eleventy/

https://archive.hankchizljaw.com/wrote/jamstack-ifttt-and-netlify:-a-power-trio/

Unfortunately, it seems like none of these people who have bothered to write these wonderful articles have actually stuck with their #IndieWeb microblog, and instead went back to Mastodon. So there's very few living examples and I'm even more unsure if this path is worth going down.

2023-08-20 03, | @ | indie-web

It makes sense that I should probably be posting my nonsense to my website first and then syndicating, but I, well, don't know how I want to go about doing that - individual pages would be a pain in the ass for my SSG, but long pages could be annoying to read... Does anyone else in the #IndieWeb archive their microblogging?

2023-08-20 01, | @ | indie-web