Molly Whiteas sad as i am about the rapid destruction of twitter, the (re)surge in blogs and newsletters has been lovely
back to the #indieweb!
Kevin Thomas ✅@molly0xfff I am as well it was hard to pivot from Twitter but this is the future.
Aaron Crowder 
@molly0xfff it’s so good to see! Maybe I’ll actually write on my blog now 😅
Eric McCorkle@molly0xfff Hell to the yeah!
cain@molly0xfff it's nice. reading my masto feed in the morning feels like picking up a newspaper. twitter was like dunking my head in a sewage waterfall
Pax Ahimsa Gethen 🏳️⚧️@molly0xfff I *vastly* prefer blog entries to tweet-threads.
Michelle Moore@molly0xfff Molly, i just learned of the term `#IndieWeb recently. I am working on making my blog the source of everything. I am enjoying retooling.
Otto@admin @molly0xfff Great term and very practical concept.
PierreNick 
💾@molly0xfff I’ve added so many RSS feeds to Feedly these past two weeks!
Calisti 🏳️🌈🦇 — 🪩✨ 39c3@molly0xfff Bring Google Reader back!
(Feedly works too. Their privacy policy is probably outrageous.)
Jan Schiefer@molly0xfff Let's call this web4, or maybe skip a few, for appropriate distance from web3.
Zein@molly0xfff Yesterday was a prime example of why I'm better off here than There. Over here, people are posting pure interests, hobbies, work-related stuff, and very helpful information across the spectrum.
Over there, I fell into a rabbit hole about some sportscaster offending another sportscaster, fisticuffs occurring during commercial break and forced apologies.
I caught myself before I fell deeper, closed that tab, and came right back over here.
@molly0xfff Furthermore, for the first time in many years, I'm working on hosting a new blog, and disconnecting entirely from Big Social. I see the light now.
Amy Hoy@molly0xfff the mixedest of mixed feelings
happysad
Felipe 
@molly0xfff This is a win win situation for everyone
Khoonez@molly0xfff Cute hair
hkd@molly0xfff hopefully we will look back at the internet of 2008 - 2022 as period of dark wandering and reactionary power struggles before the true revolution took hold
Marcos Lobo 💙💛@molly0xfff also the podcasts, I'm rediscovered the podcasts
Kiki@molly0xfff i am not one to read blogs. I absolute lived the Twitter format minus the bots, trolls and hate.
Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto@molly0xfff Time to dust off the ol' Reeder!
mav 
@molly0xfff It's been really nice.
I do kinda wish people would stop writing so much on substack, because they're gross, but it's still miles better than twitter
@molly0xfff I'm not sure if others have been noticing this, but I've been here for about a week or so and I keep seeing the same people over and over. I've been doing a lot of viewing others followings and I'm not finding new people.
I feel like somehow, we need to entice the "not so" earlier adopters over here. Any idea besides the usual social media posts on other platforms? any good anecdotes as to what works well?
will@molly0xfff indie web is back? alright everyone, share your geocities sites
dubiago 
@molly0xfff Just as long as people don't go back to LiveJournal 😂
Greg Stolze@molly0xfff (tears open shirt to reveal "INDIE 4 LIFE" stomach tat in Gothic lettering)
SekhmetDesign@molly0xfff yes!
Now, if Google can just reanimate Google Reader, I would be happy 😂
Now, if Google can just reanimate Google Reader, I would be happy 😂
Jeff Gibbard 
Tauseef@molly0xfff yesss I miss long form, as my attention span has degr...
wait what a squirrel?!
wait what a squirrel?!
noice brewery@molly0xfff it's nice that Mastodon's form of verification is literally a two way link between your acct and your website, since it encourages you to have a website!
@molly0xfff Good Point, blogs are coming back.
Armin 🍁🇩🇪 ~ ❤️☕️ ~ I work in a Peacock 🦚@molly0xfff Indeed. Hope we don’t centralize blogs and newsletters to no end at some point. Newsletter seem to be a lot of substack right now.
Personally I would love if Spotify, Stitcher and co left the Podcast space alone. More Indy contents is better for us all.
Personally I would love if Spotify, Stitcher and co left the Podcast space alone. More Indy contents is better for us all.
attacus@molly0xfff Seconded. I’ve actually *deliberately* signed up to mailing lists as a way of continuing to hear from people who haven’t decided to use Mastodon.
Darnell Clayton 
@molly0xfff I will take it! It's more creative and less reactionary than relying on an Emperor with a god complex for information.
Julianoë@molly0xfff
Glad to find you here!
Glad to find you here!
gergo
Antonio Santos 🇵🇹@molly0xfff @spellacy Newsletters are equivalent to digital pollution.
@spellacy @molly0xfff Because millions of people receive them but don’t read them. It’s a waste of bits, energy and cloud services.
@molly0xfff @spellacy Cloud storage costs money. It becomes more expensive when that data loses value over time.
Aldo@molly0xfff the statistics seem to say yes (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=mastodon)
Preslav Rachev@molly0xfff it’s so good to see the good old Web come back to place! I think, we hit the right moment when we released https://feedle.world a couple of weeks ago.
Blake Leonard@molly0xfff I do think we should make personal pages/sites more accessible. Wordpress is okay, G Sites is cool but it's owned by creepysite.com, and sites like Weebly and Neocities exist but they're relatively high maintenance.