Sam Wilson @samwilson@ausglam.space

A web site designed for one person that aggregates functionality (don’t thing “app” but plug-in style “features”) is the idea behind the Small Web:

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

#smallWeb #smallTech #singleTenant #personal

What’s the IndieWeb. Do I need it? Why would I want it?

Here’s what you probably need: a place on the web to call your own, that is _not_ controlled by megacorps that can do just about whatever.

Won’t be long till you start thinking about Webmention, though, which enables cross-site conversations. And `h-entry`, which enables more meaningful webmentions.

That’s about all most folks would ever need, I think.

Micropub is nice to have, because when done right, it works regardless of your CMS.

If you are into Wikimedia and maps consider joining the Wikimaps User Group:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_User_Group/Members
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RT @AlbinPCLarsson
Help us gather map-related ideas and tasks for the #Wikimedia Hackathon!

#WMHack #OpenStreetMap #Wikidata

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_@_Wikimedia_hackathon_2022
https://twitter.com/AlbinPCLarsson/status/1524337423030919169

Had an interesting start to a conversation yesterday about Mastodon servers, and the driving philosophy under them.

And how you're either aiming to create a service or a community, and how these actually have different motivations and requirements.

And I thought that was interesting.

low-key upset that the road realignment I've made in openstreetmap hasn't made it to the tiles used on https://democracysausage.org/ . That slightly shifted road is Super Very Important to...

ok it's important to nobody. But it hurts my eyes dammit.

@humanetech From a very personal perspective though, both pixelfed and Instagram seem rather poor choices, though, for asset management and image archiving. Little to no sort features (folder, hierarchy). No handling of different representations (file types, resolution, ...) of the same image. No real metadata except tags and descriptions. Maybe an image gallery software would be much better suited here, if at all...?

@rriemann @EU_Commission

I think my favorite part about running Linux on the Desktop is that when I close an app it actually is closed and stops consuming system resources.

While the new community members section of the IndieWeb newsletter is just a tiny subset of people who are joining the IndieWeb movement by actively adding themselves to the wiki, it's been encouraging to see expanding growth both here and in the broader web (even Tumblr) and Fediverse space since Musk announced the acquisition of Twitter.

Here's to more positive growth to a healthier and happier online social experience.

https://boffosocko.com/2022/05/07/55804619/

Plain text is interop on steroids. Many respondents reported using multiple different apps on diff platforms concurrently. Easy with plain text. Next to impossible with your rich text solution

Even those who had settled on a single app had been habitual switchers in the past

Your JSON-based file format? Used by a single app with maybe a couple of open source widgets floating around supporting it? So far away from being in the same ballpark that it might as well be a joke.