Pete Prodoehl šŸ•Feb 15, 2023

Psst. Hey you, remember that blog of yours? I looked at it. You last updated it in 2018 or maybe 2015. I dunno. it's been a while.

Things have changed since thenā€¦

Weā€™re (re)building the Open Web.

Join us.

Publish a blog post.

Donā€™t post things on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

Fuck that corporate shit and write it in your own home!

#mastodon #fediverse #indieWeb #rss #open

Show threadSusannaAuthor Old White HippieFeb 15, 2023
@rasterweb What do you consider ā€œyour own home?ā€ To me itā€™s a website I control, and/or a newsletter where I own my subscribersā€™ data.
Show threadPete Prodoehl šŸ•Feb 15, 2023

@susanna Yup. Your own home on the web being you in control... Where you didn't have to sign up for an account with a company/organization that can restrict/remove/ban your account.

So that is probably a web presence of some kind, or an email newsletter where people can sign up through a web site under your control. (It could be your own instance of Mastodon as well!)

Show threadSusannaAuthor Old White Hippie
@rasterweb Haha, well, it will never be my own instance of Masto - donā€™t have the skills, donā€™t want to learn. But websites under my control? Check. Have been building websites of my own since about 1995 - back then it was hand coding HTML. Glad I donā€™t have to do that any more! šŸ˜‰
Feb 15, 2023 at 4:00pmWeb
Show threadPete Prodoehl šŸ•Feb 15, 2023
@susanna Old Timer! Same here... using view-source in the mid-1990s to figure out how to write HTML was... magical!
Show threadSusannaAuthor Old White HippieFeb 15, 2023
@rasterweb I remember how excited I got when that first WYSIWYG page builder came out, canā€™t even remember its name now. Was it Dreamweaver?
Show threadPete Prodoehl šŸ•Feb 15, 2023
@susanna It was Dreamweaver. I actually didn't use it, and disliked it... by then I had mastered writing HTML by hand and getting the results I wanted. :)