Been playing around with Bluesky a bit & it’s pretty interesting. They have an easier consumer experience (signup/discovery/UI works like Twitter) and it all feels very snappy. I like how they use domain names (or subdomains) instead of what look like funky email addresses. By far the biggest problem Jay & co face is that Jack Dorsey has effectively poisoned the well on everything from people assuming it’s a crypto platform (it’s not) to assuming (understandably) that be bad at trust & safety.
The #indieweb developer in me loves that. I am not sure why we would need much of the other BlueSky complexity to adapt that feature to ActivityPub based systems…
Doing a study on social engagement for non-Mastodon-content-focused accounts that cross-post almost the same content on both platforms.
(BTW the best practice for doing this to my mind is posting original content HERE and crossposting it THERE, but that's not the point of this exercise)
I want to compare social engagement for big and small accounts and work on a ratio to compare engagement apples to apples.
Does anyone do this, or recommend accounts I look at that do?
I'm not as optimist as others about the #openWeb and #indieWeb making a return comparable to the days of glory of the blogosphere, but I do have feeling that it will be a bridge, and those finding their space there will have an edge in whatever the new paradigm is going to be, even if it currently seems like a cause lost in the mist of unfriendly User Agents and single-user apps.
I haven't seen a "indieweb" ready theme in available from one-click install but it shouldn't be too hard to use existing Hugo themes to do just that (I'm trying and documenting my progress)
Webmentions replies/likes/reposts are now being merged with ActivityPub interactions
Improved microformats2 markup in templates
Also, in case you're worried, microblogpub is not vulnerable to the activitypub-troll[.]cf "attacks", as we're not fetching all the profiles mentioned in a note.
“There are those who see the web merely as a tool to sell things or to gain influence or otherwise profit, and then there are the “web people” who enjoy the web as a medium of creation, who simply enjoy putting things out there for other people to appreciate.”
How are IndieWeb people posting to Instagram these days?
I know, I know, fuck Zuck, Meta, Facebook, etc. but unfortunately I do have friends and family on there that I want to be able to share things with so I want to find a way to do it POSSE style.
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
Having my daily “what if I just scrapped everything and rewrote it all” moment.
Though, thankfully, this time it’s not because I’m working on some god awful code full of technical debt, I’m working on my own website. 😎 (I hope my sarcasm is being conveyed by that emoji)
Does anyone else constantly have this feeling? How do you convince yourself not to do it?
I’m sure I've heard a statistic about how it’s almost always more time consuming and more effort to start over, right?
My latest blog post is up on begin.com/blog. I'm happy with the Enhance plugin I wrote to syndicate an RSS feed to multiple targets. Mastodon, Twitter and Dev.to for now with more planned.
It works seamlessly with our Enhance Blog template, but you can also deploy it as a stand-alone app. Feel free to reach out to me with questions and feature requests.
Tiny websites have always fascinated me, along with internet web portals (which haven't been a thing for many years-- at least in the way we used to know them). I'm talking a simple HTML page with just a graphic or two, and a bunch of links. Something that might resemble the early days of Yahoo, etc.
The idea for this site I made has been buzzing around in my head for a while now. It is NOT responsive, there is NO JavaScript, and there's just a TINY bit of CSS. The whole site (one HTML page) is only about 9kb!
A simple site like this one might look primitive compared to some of the huge, complicated websites we see as standard on the internet today, but this site is guaranteed to work on any browser or device.
I used links for sites/documents that I frequent or use a lot, and mixed in my own personal projects for fun. It's a super simple page-- mostly for my own usage. But I really love the design of it!
I am a software engineer since 2006, currently at work I use #Scala, the Typelevel stack and functional programming, but in the past I also did Perl, PHP, JS and some Java, TypeScript, React recently.
Nowadays I really enjoy using #Rustlang in my pet projects.
The only thing I love about Bluesky / AT Protocol is the use of subdomains for user names.
The double-@ is confusing as heck to people, but a link that also works as a mention name is obvious / intuitable (eg "Find me at jeremiahlee.bsky.social which makes me mentionable @jeremiahlee.bsky.social").