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  1. The masterclass of digital aesthetics that is @fish 's output has a new addition: "The Future is Possible! a manifesto for the NEW and the NOW"

    sweetfish.itch.io/future

    So pleased I'm "following" them on itchio, I might have missed this

    #indieweb #manifesto

  2. The masterclass of digital aesthetics that is @fish 's output has a new addition: "The Future is Possible! a manifesto for the NEW and the NOW"

    sweetfish.itch.io/future

    So pleased I'm "following" them on itchio, I might have missed this

    #indieweb #manifesto

  3. The Snooze Tabs browser add-on is a key technique I use for category 2, defending focus (and prioritizing) from my previous post (link in footer).

    I noted in the #indieweb informal cafe chat that "I am going to snooze the tab for a month and re-evaluate then" (about purchasing a potentially focus-enhancing electronic device), and was asked how do I snooze a tab for a month.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snoozetabs/

    I noted the Snooze Tabs browser extension does this, i.e. one-click to snooze a tab for
    * later today
    * tomorrow morning
    * the weekend
    * a week from now
    * a month from now
    * or a custom date and time

    I have used it for years and as someone who opens LOTS of tabs, it has been essential for quickly closing tabs (for now) that are not my current (now, today, this week) priority.

    A few regular use-cases which are all one-click from my Firefox toolbar:
    * snooze work-related tabs until the next day, when I'm wrapping up work for the day
    * snooze personal projects tabs until the weekend
    * snooze lower priority work-task related tabs for a week
    * snooze product tabs for a month when I want to wait (procrastinate) to see if I still want/need an item that seemed interesting in the moment

    One key use-case I have which I have to set manually:
    * snooze work-related tabs to Monday when it’s the weekend

    There is an issue to swap the "next weekend" menu item to "next weekday" when it’s the weekend which would be a nice improvement:
    * https://github.com/bwinton/SnoozeTabs/issues/393

    This add-on is a good example of open source that “just works” even if its source code repository has not seen recent activity.

    It’s also a good example of “good enough” rather than perfect.

    If I get around to it, I may explore what it would take to help resolve issues, commit code, and do another release, at least to make progress on that one issue.

    For now however, I am snoozing that GitHub tab for a month.

    Previously:
    * https://tantek.com/2026/158/t2/three-insights-improving-focus

    #focus #priorities #prioritization #Firefox #snooze #SnoozeTabs #browserAddOn #browserExtension

  4. The Snooze Tabs browser add-on is a key technique I use for category 2, defending focus (and prioritizing) from my previous post (link in footer).

    I noted in the #indieweb informal cafe chat that "I am going to snooze the tab for a month and re-evaluate then" (about purchasing a potentially focus-enhancing electronic device), and was asked how do I snooze a tab for a month.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snoozetabs/

    I noted the Snooze Tabs browser extension does this, i.e. one-click to snooze a tab for
    * later today
    * tomorrow morning
    * the weekend
    * a week from now
    * a month from now
    * or a custom date and time

    I have used it for years and as someone who opens LOTS of tabs, it has been essential for quickly closing tabs (for now) that are not my current (now, today, this week) priority.

    A few regular use-cases which are all one-click from my Firefox toolbar:
    * snooze work-related tabs until the next day, when I'm wrapping up work for the day
    * snooze personal projects tabs until the weekend
    * snooze lower priority work-task related tabs for a week
    * snooze product tabs for a month when I want to wait (procrastinate) to see if I still want/need an item that seemed interesting in the moment

    One key use-case I have which I have to set manually:
    * snooze work-related tabs to Monday when it’s the weekend

    There is an issue to swap the "next weekend" menu item to "next weekday" when it’s the weekend which would be a nice improvement:
    * https://github.com/bwinton/SnoozeTabs/issues/393

    This add-on is a good example of open source that “just works” even if its source code repository has not seen recent activity.

    It’s also a good example of “good enough” rather than perfect.

    If I get around to it, I may explore what it would take to help resolve issues, commit code, and do another release, at least to make progress on that one issue.

    For now however, I am snoozing that GitHub tab for a month.

    Previously:
    * https://tantek.com/2026/158/t2/three-insights-improving-focus

    #focus #priorities #prioritization #Firefox #snooze #SnoozeTabs #browserAddOn #browserExtension

  5. My site now supports webmentions

    I finally got webmentions working on my site by setting up a homelab server with an Intel NUC to handle the build process, and now I'm collecting likes, replies, and mentions from Mastodon, Bluesky, and indie websites.

    michaelharley.net/posts/2026/0

    #MichaelHarleyNet #BlogPost #Webmentions #IndieWeb

  6. My site now supports webmentions

    I finally got webmentions working on my site by setting up a homelab server with an Intel NUC to handle the build process, and now I'm collecting likes, replies, and mentions from Mastodon, Bluesky, and indie websites.

    michaelharley.net/posts/2026/0

    #MichaelHarleyNet #BlogPost #Webmentions #IndieWeb

  7. Recién me enteré de #Bubbles, una especie de Hacker News, pero para blogs personales y para la #IndieWeb, y está entretenido el lugar.

    Estoy encontrando contenido algo más variado que en los RSS de #SmolPub y #BearBlog, por lo que los complementa muy bien. Si quieren checar, la dirección es bubbles.town/ .

    También tienen cuenta en Mastodon: @bubbles .

    #SmolWeb

  8. Recién me enteré de #Bubbles, una especie de Hacker News, pero para blogs personales y para la #IndieWeb, y está entretenido el lugar.

    Estoy encontrando contenido algo más variado que en los RSS de #SmolPub y #BearBlog, por lo que los complementa muy bien. Si quieren checar, la dirección es bubbles.town/ .

    También tienen cuenta en Mastodon: @bubbles .

    #SmolWeb

  9. It is with great pleasure I announce that I have finally published my MiniDebConf experience post :moomin_butterfly:, Its been sitting in a local directory for over 2 months :neofox_sign_aaa:. With this I have also moved my forest to a new theme :moomin_flower:. And one other thing, Its now 100% Emacs, yes... EMACS my beloved! :tealheart:. I put a lot of work into this, writing a post is very hard, I am very bad at articulating paragraphs but hope to get better in the future. There is also a plug for Nodus Tollens in There :ashinobu_dab:

    - untrusem.party/blog/minidebcon

    merveilles.town/@untrusem/1162

    #fedi #permacomputing #debian #emacs #indieweb #orgmode

  10. It is with great pleasure I announce that I have finally published my MiniDebConf experience post :moomin_butterfly:, Its been sitting in a local directory for over 2 months :neofox_sign_aaa:. With this I have also moved my forest to a new theme :moomin_flower:. And one other thing, Its now 100% Emacs, yes... EMACS my beloved! :tealheart:. I put a lot of work into this, writing a post is very hard, I am very bad at articulating paragraphs but hope to get better in the future. There is also a plug for Nodus Tollens in There :ashinobu_dab:

    - untrusem.party/blog/minidebcon

    merveilles.town/@untrusem/1162

    #fedi #permacomputing #debian #emacs #indieweb #orgmode

  11. I am participating in Junited 2026, a month-long celebration of the blogosphere where bloggers collect and share links to posts they enjoy.

    gurupanguji.com/junited/

    #junited #indieweb

  12. I am participating in Junited 2026, a month-long celebration of the blogosphere where bloggers collect and share links to posts they enjoy.

    gurupanguji.com/junited/

    #junited #indieweb

  13. Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you can secure long-term visibility and control over your digital presence on the Internet.

    #Blogging #Indieweb #SocialMedia #Writing #Substack

    elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/su

  14. Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you can secure long-term visibility and control over your digital presence on the Internet.

    #Blogging #Indieweb #SocialMedia #Writing #Substack

    elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/su

  15. Substack writers, you need a website!

    “But I already have a website on Substack,” you argue.

    No, no, Substack is just a distribution tool to amplify your website. It should not be your digital home.

    In the last few years, I’ve noticed a pattern of writers leaving their websites to make Substack their digital home.

    Now, it’s kinda okay if they have bought a domain and linked it to Substack. (Meaning, it’s better than nothing.)

    Rachel from Conscious Living is a good example. This way, Substack more or less functions like a content management system (CMS) for you.

    However, compared to other CMS it’s very limited, such as the ability to manage your SEO and customize your pages to add more features, but I digress. If you just want a fuss-free platform, this is one way to get it and Substack’s conditions for domains are very reasonable and cost-efficient. As I will explain later, this could change on a dime without warning.

    However, there are some writers who are saying: “Hey readers, I’m now writing on Substack, so head on over there (and ignore my website)!”

    Some writers do have a website, but link to their Substacks, calling them their “blogs”. If your Substack has a domain name they own, it’s okay, but if it’s xx.substack.com, Substack is saying “All your content are belong to us”.

    In conclusion: Writers, don’t do this. It’s short-sighted and unwise and can derail your long-term visibility on the Internet.

    The siren call of convenience

    Every few years, the internet convinces writers that a new digital paradise has arrived. First, it was social media like Facebook. Then blogging networks like Tumblr. Then it was Medium. More recently, it’s been Substack.

    Platforms promise us an eager audience, built-in monetization, a smooth user interface, and a supportive community. As a writer who just wants to focus on writing, it’s incredibly tempting to hand over the keys to our creative kingdoms and let these portals handle everything. (Believe me, I gave in at one point. For years, I just stopped blogging altogether and even gave up a domain that had high traffic! But I got back in 2012 and never left.)

    However, this is the truth that has not changed since the dawn of the Internet: When you build your audience entirely on someone else’s platform, you aren’t a homeowner. You are a tenant. Or worse, a digital sharecropper.

    And corporate landlords always change the rules eventually. It’s not personal, it’s just business.

    The illusion of the safe space

    It’s easy to feel secure when a platform is in its golden era. But we’ve watched the downfalls of Twitter, the policy shifts of Reddit, and the changing tides of algorithmic networks. Relying blindly on a centralized portal not owned by you means your life’s work can alter overnight based entirely on a corporate boardroom decision.

    When I looked at how fragile our digital ecosystems really are, I realized I needed a space that wouldn’t go “poof” because a company needed to please its investors or shareholders. This realization completely changed my approach, pushing me to protect my content by learning to blog the IndieWeb way.

    Your writing needs a permanent homebase—a domain that you own and control. Full stop.

    Moving from “renting” to syndicating

    Do you own the land you plant your “content” crops?

    The biggest pushback I hear from writers is: “But my website doesn’t have an audience! Substack does.”

    But you don’t have to completely abandon social media or platforms like Substack to protect your autonomy (personally, I prefer the word sovereignty but it does sound a tad dramatic).

    You just need to change the order of operations. Instead of publishing directly to a portal, you can shift your mindset to POSSE: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. (I explain the POSSE/PESOS method in an older post.)

    By treating your website as the definitive source of truth and using platforms simply as distribution pipes, you get the best of both worlds. I dug deep into this shift when I committed to being an imperfect gardener of my digital garden, exploring how a less market-y way of presenting my content online let me share my wild garden of thoughts without dancing to the algorithm.

    A reality check on platform hype

    If you are still holding out hope that Substack is “different” from the social platforms that came before it, let’s look at the numbers and behaviors behind the marketing copy.

    After spending a significant amount of time observing the platform ecosystem firsthand, I wrote a brutally honest takeaway in What I learned from one year of Substack. The network effects are real, but so is the pressure to conform to what the platform’s ecosystem favors.

    This post, by the way, desperately needs to be updated because things have gotten much, much worse since I wrote it.

    When you hand your content over to a platform, you have to conform to their rules and their localized biases. For those of us writing from outside the dominant US-centric echo chambers, platform algorithms heavily prioritize specific western narratives, making it incredibly tough for localized or minority voices to be seen unless they conform.

    I wrote about this exact frustration recently in Linkblog: Dwelling on the Internet, highlighting how algorithmic complacency forces us into homogenized bubbles.

    The flip side – the writers who refused to leave their websites

    Each time there’s a new drama on some platform, and writers are shaking their sabers and declaring that they will leave for yet another social media platform they don’t control, I think about writers like John Scalzi.

    As of date, John scalzi has been blogging on https://whatever.scalzi.com/ for 28 years!

    This sci-fi novelist has maintained a single independent website continuously for nearly three decades; this makes him one of the longest-running, most consistent original bloggers on the internet. Imagine the amount of digital footprint on that website! Unbroken by time or platforms.

    (Specifically, he uses wordpress.com like I do, as we both don’t want to bother with the pain of setting up your own self-hosted wordpress website and just want the folks at Automattic to do it.)

    He blogs in the classic Indieweb way, though I doubt he is even aware he’s doing it. He treats his social media channels such as X or Bluesky as a way to amplify his website. All roads lead back to https://whatever.scalzi.com/, and this is something I wish every single writer would do.

    He wrote recently in Various & Sundry, 6/3/26:

    this site acts as my own institutional memory, if I post something about it here it constitutes an official record. I mean, all the posts I ever placed on the former Twitter are now entirely lost to time, since I have gone in and purged my entire timeline there. This site, however, endures. – John Scalzi

    Breaking free from platform blues

    Trying to adapt your presence across various platforms in an ever-shifting digital landscape is exhausting. One minute a platform is a writer’s darling; the next, it’s being boycotted. Railing against a platform’s focus shift or the presence of (long sigh) Nazis is a useless endeavor.

    As I noted in Linkblog March 12, 2026: Platform blues, chasing platform purity is an illusion. Tech will change, corporate algorithms will continue to prioritize profit over human connection, and platforms will continue to cycle through hype and decline.

    The antidote to this exhaustion isn’t moving to the next shiny new app. It’s anchoring your work on an independent website with open distribution channels like RSS. It also means ruthlessly using platforms as distribution channels. When one collapses or you prefer to just move, it’s easy to just change strategies because your digital home remains unchanged.

    Use platforms to find your readers, but bring them back to your house. It’s time to stop digital sharecropping on rented land.

    Featured photo is by vivek vk on Unsplash

    #Blogging #Linkdump #Websites #wordpress #Indieweb #SocialMedia #Writing #Substack

    #BeingAWriter #blogging #indieweb #Internet #socialmedia #writing
  16. Substack writers, you need a website!

    “But I already have a website on Substack,” you argue.

    No, no, Substack is just a distribution tool to amplify your website. It should not be your digital home.

    In the last few years, I’ve noticed a pattern of writers leaving their websites to make Substack their digital home.

    Now, it’s kinda okay if they have bought a domain and linked it to Substack. (Meaning, it’s better than nothing.)

    Rachel from Conscious Living is a good example. This way, Substack more or less functions like a content management system (CMS) for you.

    However, compared to other CMS it’s very limited, such as the ability to manage your SEO and customize your pages to add more features, but I digress. If you just want a fuss-free platform, this is one way to get it and Substack’s conditions for domains are very reasonable and cost-efficient. As I will explain later, this could change on a dime without warning.

    However, there are some writers who are saying: “Hey readers, I’m now writing on Substack, so head on over there (and ignore my website)!”

    Some writers do have a website, but link to their Substacks, calling them their “blogs”. If your Substack has a domain name they own, it’s okay, but if it’s xx.substack.com, Substack is saying “All your content are belong to us”.

    In conclusion: Writers, don’t do this. It’s short-sighted and unwise and can derail your long-term visibility on the Internet.

    The siren call of convenience

    Every few years, the internet convinces writers that a new digital paradise has arrived. First, it was social media like Facebook. Then blogging networks like Tumblr. Then it was Medium. More recently, it’s been Substack.

    Platforms promise us an eager audience, built-in monetization, a smooth user interface, and a supportive community. As a writer who just wants to focus on writing, it’s incredibly tempting to hand over the keys to our creative kingdoms and let these portals handle everything. (Believe me, I gave in at one point. For years, I just stopped blogging altogether and even gave up a domain that had high traffic! But I got back in 2012 and never left.)

    However, this is the truth that has not changed since the dawn of the Internet: When you build your audience entirely on someone else’s platform, you aren’t a homeowner. You are a tenant. Or worse, a digital sharecropper.

    And corporate landlords always change the rules eventually. It’s not personal, it’s just business.

    The illusion of the safe space

    It’s easy to feel secure when a platform is in its golden era. But we’ve watched the downfalls of Twitter, the policy shifts of Reddit, and the changing tides of algorithmic networks. Relying blindly on a centralized portal not owned by you means your life’s work can alter overnight based entirely on a corporate boardroom decision.

    When I looked at how fragile our digital ecosystems really are, I realized I needed a space that wouldn’t go “poof” because a company needed to please its investors or shareholders. This realization completely changed my approach, pushing me to protect my content by learning to blog the IndieWeb way.

    Your writing needs a permanent homebase—a domain that you own and control. Full stop.

    Moving from “renting” to syndicating

    Do you own the land you plant your “content” crops?

    The biggest pushback I hear from writers is: “But my website doesn’t have an audience! Substack does.”

    But you don’t have to completely abandon social media or platforms like Substack to protect your autonomy (personally, I prefer the word sovereignty but it does sound a tad dramatic).

    You just need to change the order of operations. Instead of publishing directly to a portal, you can shift your mindset to POSSE: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. (I explain the POSSE/PESOS method in an older post.)

    By treating your website as the definitive source of truth and using platforms simply as distribution pipes, you get the best of both worlds. I dug deep into this shift when I committed to being an imperfect gardener of my digital garden, exploring how a less market-y way of presenting my content online let me share my wild garden of thoughts without dancing to the algorithm.

    A reality check on platform hype

    If you are still holding out hope that Substack is “different” from the social platforms that came before it, let’s look at the numbers and behaviors behind the marketing copy.

    After spending a significant amount of time observing the platform ecosystem firsthand, I wrote a brutally honest takeaway in What I learned from one year of Substack. The network effects are real, but so is the pressure to conform to what the platform’s ecosystem favors.

    This post, by the way, desperately needs to be updated because things have gotten much, much worse since I wrote it.

    When you hand your content over to a platform, you have to conform to their rules and their localized biases. For those of us writing from outside the dominant US-centric echo chambers, platform algorithms heavily prioritize specific western narratives, making it incredibly tough for localized or minority voices to be seen unless they conform.

    I wrote about this exact frustration recently in Linkblog: Dwelling on the Internet, highlighting how algorithmic complacency forces us into homogenized bubbles.

    The flip side – the writers who refused to leave their websites

    Each time there’s a new drama on some platform, and writers are shaking their sabers and declaring that they will leave for yet another social media platform they don’t control, I think about writers like John Scalzi.

    As of date, John scalzi has been blogging on https://whatever.scalzi.com/ for 28 years!

    This sci-fi novelist has maintained a single independent website continuously for nearly three decades; this makes him one of the longest-running, most consistent original bloggers on the internet. Imagine the amount of digital footprint on that website! Unbroken by time or platforms.

    (Specifically, he uses wordpress.com like I do, as we both don’t want to bother with the pain of setting up your own self-hosted wordpress website and just want the folks at Automattic to do it.)

    He blogs in the classic Indieweb way, though I doubt he is even aware he’s doing it. He treats his social media channels such as X or Bluesky as a way to amplify his website. All roads lead back to https://whatever.scalzi.com/, and this is something I wish every single writer would do.

    He wrote recently in Various & Sundry, 6/3/26:

    this site acts as my own institutional memory, if I post something about it here it constitutes an official record. I mean, all the posts I ever placed on the former Twitter are now entirely lost to time, since I have gone in and purged my entire timeline there. This site, however, endures. – John Scalzi

    Breaking free from platform blues

    Trying to adapt your presence across various platforms in an ever-shifting digital landscape is exhausting. One minute a platform is a writer’s darling; the next, it’s being boycotted. Railing against a platform’s focus shift or the presence of (long sigh) Nazis is a useless endeavor.

    As I noted in Linkblog March 12, 2026: Platform blues, chasing platform purity is an illusion. Tech will change, corporate algorithms will continue to prioritize profit over human connection, and platforms will continue to cycle through hype and decline.

    The antidote to this exhaustion isn’t moving to the next shiny new app. It’s anchoring your work on an independent website with open distribution channels like RSS. It also means ruthlessly using platforms as distribution channels. When one collapses or you prefer to just move, it’s easy to just change strategies because your digital home remains unchanged.

    Use platforms to find your readers, but bring them back to your house. It’s time to stop digital sharecropping on rented land.

    Featured photo is by vivek vk on Unsplash

    #Blogging #Linkdump #Websites #wordpress #Indieweb #SocialMedia #Writing #Substack

    #BeingAWriter #blogging #indieweb #Internet #socialmedia #writing
  17. It's been a minute since I bothered having anything but a (now outdated) presentation on my website. Like, a pre-"AI" minute.

    By now I realise all my work that has ever been online, visual and textual, has most likely been scraped to feed the glorified Tamagotchi. I hesitate putting anything new up for it to go through the grinder and train more idiocy.

    Fellow neo-Luddites: what precautions do you take to make your words and images indigestible for the scrapers?

    #noAI #IndieWeb

    cc @stefan

  18. It's been a minute since I bothered having anything but a (now outdated) presentation on my website. Like, a pre-"AI" minute.

    By now I realise all my work that has ever been online, visual and textual, has most likely been scraped to feed the glorified Tamagotchi. I hesitate putting anything new up for it to go through the grinder and train more idiocy.

    Fellow neo-Luddites: what precautions do you take to make your words and images indigestible for the scrapers?

    #noAI #IndieWeb

    cc @stefan

  19. What Happens When The Machine Has Never Heard of You?

    Eddy Smith's essay on AI and St. Vincent hits close to home, literally. As someone born there, with family roots in Bequia, who works in cybersecurity and has spent two decades arguing for the open web, I recognise every word of it.

    islandinthenet.com/what-happen

  20. What Happens When The Machine Has Never Heard of You?

    Eddy Smith's essay on AI and St. Vincent hits close to home, literally. As someone born there, with family roots in Bequia, who works in cybersecurity and has spent two decades arguing for the open web, I recognise every word of it.

    islandinthenet.com/what-happen

  21. Lovely read on the impact of AI scraping on small sites - especially if you are also electing to self-host. It’s a hard world out there.

    gurupanguji.com/blog/2026/06/0

    #indieweb

  22. Lovely read on the impact of AI scraping on small sites - especially if you are also electing to self-host. It’s a hard world out there.

    gurupanguji.com/blog/2026/06/0

    #indieweb

  23. Hey fediverse! Question for those of you who have their own website (and don't mind being anonymously quoted):

    What do you like about having a personal website?

    #websites #PersonalWebsite #SmallWeb #indieweb

  24. Hey fediverse! Question for those of you who have their own website (and don't mind being anonymously quoted):

    What do you like about having a personal website?

    #websites #PersonalWebsite #SmallWeb #indieweb

  25. RE: tilde.zone/@xandra/11670776921

    over the past couple months, i've been weighing whether or not to do this, and the breach put more of this into perspective for me. it's a hard decision, but i've decided to put good internet magazine on an indefinite hiatus. you can read more about the decision here.

    thank you so much to everyone who supported the project. i love every single one of you. thank you.

    #goodinternetmagazine #goodinternet #indieweb #personalweb #personalwebsite #html #webdesign #webdev #coding #neocities

  26. RE: tilde.zone/@xandra/11670776921

    over the past couple months, i've been weighing whether or not to do this, and the breach put more of this into perspective for me. it's a hard decision, but i've decided to put good internet magazine on an indefinite hiatus. you can read more about the decision here.

    thank you so much to everyone who supported the project. i love every single one of you. thank you.

    #goodinternetmagazine #goodinternet #indieweb #personalweb #personalwebsite #html #webdesign #webdev #coding #neocities