my.intimate.secretsAs I have now a working brand new #SmallWeb #IndyWeb site at https://neocities.org I can leave the social media pain behind me. No big thing, no one will care or notice it.
Rachele DiTullioWe’re hosting our wedding website and photos on the #indyWeb
Marc TriusWhat kind of #SelfHosted #Syndication tools do you know for automating posts to corporate social media like Facebook from an RSS feed? Asking for a comrade
Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)Hey #Forkiverse! First things first, an #introduction is in order (post your own so people can get to know you):
https://hachyderm.io/@suzannealdrich/111430267596783825
Next, follow some active hashtags that you’re interested in, and maybe some you didn’t know you’d be:
#Monsterdon
#ThreeGoodThings
#Mosstodon
#Caturday
#FensterFreitag
I find it easier to read CamelCase hashtags, and people using screen readers appreciate hashtags to be at the end of your posts (not embedded).
Make your images accessible by adding alt text, which is also a secret cheat code for stuffing a bunch of text into a post. But you should always use that for more descriptive text. I take screenshots of text and use alt text for transcriptions. There’s bots you can follow to give you reminders or even produce the alt text if you forget (@altbot). Some clients have reminders, too.
AI slop is not appreciated here. Be mindful of why and when you are employing LLM technologies. General machine learning is more well-tolerated.
There’s no algorithms to push content to the eyeballs here so you’ll need to follow and share by boosting the good stuff. That’s why you need to use hashtags, but also remember there’s no algorithms to game so make it readable and relevant to your readership.
Some oddities might stand out. Quote posting is quite new. You’ll see that not all replies to a thread get federated (spread), for various reasons. Search can be challenging. It all has to do with the nature of a truly decentralized protocol and communities. We’re still working on ironing out what works, and getting the developers to work on the right priorities.
Speaking of which, you *can* change your instance (community), but you *can’t* take your posts with you. Principles of the open #IndyWeb still apply here: if you truly want to *own* your content, you need to self-host. You can get your Ghost or Wordpress website to post to the #Fediverse, and there are ways to do it with Hugo and other static site generators as well. See @blog for an example.
Welcome! 🤗
Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) (@[email protected])
It's been a bit over a year since I joined (11/11/22), so might as well provide my #introduction Hi! I'm Suzanne. I'm from Northern California – #Sonoma County in particular. I grew up on a 20 acre patch of redwoods my parents bought along with some other hippies in the 70s, in a house that my dad built, until they divorced and my mom and I settled in a more suburban environment. I was a voracious reader, digging deep into classic sci-fi and fantasy books my grandpa and uncle donated. ⬇️
AmgineI should be using something, but no I do not, generally.
I am currently off-wagon for my #bujo, because I got distracted developing a #CLI logger to do it digitally (as part of an #indyweb #craft project, of course.) Awaiting new #hardware to rebuild my #ServerFarm, so #WeBlog at the moment.
Why is mostly AuDHD. But also I have less interest in posterity/nostalgia. I have #knit far too many things in 30+ years of output.
And #canning, #boatbuilding, #genealogy, (…) #life.
Timo GeuschLooks like my #SelfHosted #FreeBSD web server VPS probably just got hit by AI scrapers that pretty much shut the whole server down. Couldn't even log in via the console within a reasonable time. Not the first time this happened, either.
Looks like I finally need to do something about this, and I found this GitHub repo that claims to offer some configuration suggestions and robots.txt that at least would deal with the crawlers that respect robots.txt: https://github.com/ai-robots-txt
Does anyone have additional suggestions/pf configurations that would help with getting DDOS'd by presumed AI crawlers?
Oh, and I love that most search engines seem to barf up pages that describe how one would work around AI scraper limitations that people put on their websites to stand a fighting chance. A hearty "screw you" to people who implement this type of "workaround" to make sure that the #IndyWeb has an even harder time to hang around.
StevenBlog Questions Challenge: Technology
Blog Questions Challenge: Travel Adventures
Bastian 🦊@shanselman in the episode with @poppastring you mentioned a few #indyweb folks but i cant find the one you mentioned - do you have any pointers for me 😅 best put those links on your show notes that would be amazing 😍
I finally published my first technical blog post ever! It's about how I self-hosted my new blog using #Ghost, #Caddy, and #Docker. I'd love to hear any feedback you have.
https://marctrius.net/setting-up-a-personal-website-with-ghost-caddy-and-docker/
Setting up a personal website with Ghost, Caddy and Docker
I've been a theoretical proponent of self-hosting for a long time, and I've had all kinds of websites over the years. For some time now, I've been a fan of SSGs, and Eleventy in particular, but lately I got excited at the work the Ghost team has been doing in