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 surfability.
Coyote’s essay reframes the indie web as an anti-corporate project — but the movement was built by people who owned their data and built their own tools, not by people writing manifestos.
A recent post by @brennan that I have lots of scattered thoughts about, covering topics such as An orientation of suspicion toward unfamiliar images online Indie web onboarding, particularly in relation to the recent OnionBoots videos The “discovery vacuum,” i.e. finding personal websites in the first place ▶ Generative bot debate containment zone: Onto the subject of onboarding: YouTuber OnionBoots uploaded a video on the Old/IndieWeb revival a month ago, and it has over half a million vi...
This appeared in my feed today and I like the idea of it. Bubbles seems to be a “Hacker News but for non techy blogs”, that curated a bunch of RSS feeds from blogs and every post is shared, but some float to the top (the ones that have votes), and some sink down. Nice analogy, hopefully it ends up a successful project 👍
You can hold political thought in contempt as much as you want, but the indieweb can be a response to the threat of tech, and not just a playground for tech-savvy folk.
What does it actually mean to build a better web, and what do we owe each other in doing so? A response to the 32-bit Café thread about trust, onboarding, and the distance between knowing something is wrong and doing something about it.