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👓 disconnected thoughts on fandom and the indieweb | privilege escalation

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Marianne (privilege escalation)

Recently I discovered the IndieWeb project, and I… think I am a lot more intrigued by it than by other Better Social Media Platform pipe dreams and decentralization projects I’ve seen? Because it’s...

I love that this post has all sorts of ideas and itches which resonate with large swaths of the growing IndieWeb. Some problems here are solved, and many remain to be worked on and improved. Either way, this has a reasonable beginning roadmap for people who are interesting in taking a crack at solving or improving on some of these problems.

I hope Marianne joins into the fray to not only make things better for herself, but for all of us. I know I and many others are happy to help on the WordPress front or otherwise. Here’s an overview video that may help some of the less technical.

It also raises some questions for me:
Do any wikis, bulletin boards/forum software send or receive webmentions yet? I receive refbacks from the IndieWeb wiki, but shouldn’t it handle sending webmentions? How about software for wikis and fora that allow for micropub or simple syndication?

It’s never dawned on me to look before, but I’ve just noticed that at least the IndieWeb wiki actually has an h-card!

👓 masterpost of tumblr alternatives | snowballphil

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this post will be updated as I find more websites to add! please check with the original before reblogging to see if there’s an updated version, and message me with more suggestions if you have them!!

for general use

myspace.com - yes, it still exists, i’m just as surprised as you

soup.io - very similar to tumblr, plus it can import your tumblr blog

twitter.com - allows posting both text and photos in sets, allows retweets

geared towards writers and bloggers

archiveofourown.org - specializes in hosting fic, excellent tagging system

dreamwidth.org - a blogging site similar to livejournal or wordpress

fanfiction.net - another big name in fanfic posting

livejournal.com - still an option, but questionably safe for fandom

wordpress.com - old and well-established, often considered the default

geared towards artists and photographers

deviantart.com - huge community, allows posting art + sorting into folders

furaffinity.net - similar to DA but for furries, easy to display commish info

instagram.com - photo and video posts, excellent tag search

piczel.tv - allows both streaming and posting art / photosets to a gallery

pixiv.net - huge anime art community, allows livestreaming

paid platforms

patreon.com - subscription-based access to many diff types of content

pillowfort.io - still in beta, but should function almost identically to tumblr

typepad.com - similar to wordpress but with reblogging and a dash

ways to save your current tumblr posts

use the wayback machine! you do have to archive each page of your blog individually but once you do all the content, including media, will be saved exactly as it was at the moment you archived it.

wordpress and soup both allow you to directly import whole tumblr blogs, and if i recall correctly it’s something both dreamwidth and pillowfort have said they are working on.

if you have some knowledge of computers you can try this github solution which uses a python script to download your whole blog to your computer. even if you don’t know anything about programming or the command line they give a very good beginners tutorial on how to use it so you should still give it a shot!

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👓 The Fans Are All Right | Pinboard Blog

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I've had a couple of emails and tweets asking somewhat cautiously why the popular page has filled with slash fiction. That's because the fans are coming!

I learned a lot about fandom couple of years ago in conversations with my friend Britta, who was working at the time as community manager for Delicious. She taught me that fans were among the heaviest users of the bookmarking site, and had constructed an edifice of incredibly elaborate tagging conventions, plugins, and scripts to organize their output along a bewildering number of dimensions. If you wanted to read a 3000 word fic where Picard forces Gandalf into sexual bondage, and it seems unconsensual but secretly both want it, and it's R-explicit but not NC-17 explicit, all you had to do was search along the appropriate combination of tags (and if you couldn't find it, someone would probably write it for you). By 2008 a whole suite of theoretical ideas about folksonomy, crowdsourcing, faceted infomation retrieval, collaborative editing and emergent ontology had been implemented by a bunch of friendly people so that they could read about Kirk drilling Spock.