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Re: these comments about this post, IndieWeb Ethos and Pagecord, and the previous appearances of Bubbles on IndieNews.

The Lazybones Guide to Webmentions is a webweaver's guide to the simplest and easiest way to receive webmentions, which can be useful if you want to make it easier for people to tell you that they linked your stuff, especially if you don't want or expect…

With all the eulogies that have been written about Cohost since the shutdown announcement, some folks have gotten the unfortunate impression that they missed out on something unprecedented and unanimously adored.

By combining blog feeds with an upvote button and the promise to reveal the best blogposts by popular vote, feed aggregator Bubbles has replicated problems with metrics-based recommendation algorithms.

Pillowfort has built a site culture where positive interactions and productive conversations form the expected baseline of what a lively discussion can look like, and if other social sites were to follow its example, the same might be achievable for them…

Primarily I use this journal for three things: 1) crossposting some of my major blogposts, 2) offering support for guest comments, since this is not currently an option on Pillowfort, and 3) outsourcing the work of making an RSS feed for major updates to…

Deviation is a webpage template for creating a filterable image gallery, loosely inspired by an older era of DeviantArt.

Overvaluing the appearance of moderation can be a mistake, in that it can give undue credence to assertions that go unsubstantiated.

Severance employs a fantastical scenario at an imaginary company to depict a phenomenon that’s very real: the systematic alienation of labor.

We're celebrating Pillowfort's anniversary this month, and since I've been there since 2018, I decided to put together a brief personal timeline of my experience with the site.

In the controversy surrounding Cory Doctorow’s anniversary post, many people have engaged with the spirit of the thing, but I have yet to see any in-depth discussion of his choice to invoke the term purity culture.

General Ludd's Guide to Draining the Bot Slop From Your Device is a beginner-friendly guide to removing generative bot features from your search results, your browser, and your operating system.

Large language models and their associated bots are bad for the indie web in at least three ways: 1) their logistical consequences are bad for bandwidth, 2) their social consequences are bad for guides, and 3) their citational consequences are bad for sur…

Given that comments can be controversial on the indie web, it’s worth pointing out the use cases for comment sections as a feature.

Although normally spoken about as a cohesive whole, different aspects of the indie web ethos can wind up in tension with each other, which raises the question of which one ultimately takes priority.

If you care about privacy on the web, then you should care about how anti-privacy laws have been challenged by Dreamwidth.

Halloween (1978) is, if nothing else, a movie about labor.

Story of The Split is a zine about ace community history and a breakdown in community memory that has kept many people in the dark about the origin of the term “split attraction model.”

For those of us interested in more ethical, user-focused social platforms, it's worth understanding how these ventures can go wrong.

Archive of Your Own is a webpage template for making a filterable index of creative works, modeled off of fanwork archives like AO3 and SqWA.

If you’ve been around long enough, you have most certainly encountered some very bad outlooks on conflict.

In various icon libraries across the internet, you can reliably find logos for certain major websites, while others are much more scarce.

The Desert Links Compendium is a collection of links assembled to encourage learning about and appreciation for the ecology, history, and cultural heritage of deserts and drylands, with a focus on the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Mojave Deserts.

H-entries are a key part of submitting entries to IndieNews, and I keep messing them up, so I made this reference page for myself.

If you have any doubts, then you're the target audience of this guide.

The Machine-Generated Garbage Hall of Shame is a compilation of links about egregious garbage generated by large language model technology and others of its ilk, often incorrectly referred to as "AI" — a misnomer in that "artificial intelligence" implies…