Social media platforms are the perfect places to deny nuance in favour of extreme opinions – and we are hooked on them.
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👓 My Gutenberg Migration Planning | Brad Enslen
I have several blogs: 1 x Micro.blog hosted blog plus 2 x WordPress blogs. After the Holidays, I’ll probably migrate my main WP blog (you are here) to some other blogging platform. No matter what I do I will lose my Indieweb features on that blog. But that said, I forsee it becoming increasi...
👓 Bookmark: Migrate your WordPress site to ClassicPress – ClassicPress | Brad Enslen
Migrating your WordPress website to ClassicPress is easy and only takes a few minutes. Follow the simple steps below to get started: Bookmark: Migrate your WordPress site to ClassicPress – ClassicPress The folks at Classic Press have created an easy migration plugin that works with WordPress 5.0.?...
👓 My Micro.blog Wishlist | Mumblings
I have been taking notes for this wishlist for some time. Two things have stopped me from writing it up and posting: Time and energy. I have spent more of it on making other things, being a believer in the idea that the best position from which to criticise is that of creation, or put another way: I...
👓 Web as Social Network: Creating the Blog Network | Brad Enslen
This is Part 3 of a series. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. In Part 1, I mentioned RSS feed readers and linked to resources to help you find one. In Part 2 I talked about blog platforms. Now we put together a simple social network. Feed Readers RSS Feed Readers: These are the backbone of y...
👓 Web as Social Network: Three Best Blogging Choices | Brad Enslen
This is Part 2 in a series. Part 1 is here. In Part 1 I made the case that Facebook and Twitter had become toxic places and I suggest that blogging, micro blogging and long form blogging (either or both) on your own blog was a better choice Here in Part 2 I’m going to recommend 3 blogging platfo...
👓 Populism and Today’s Social Tech vs. Blogging | Brad Enslen
The Problem: Populism and Toxic Social Networks Social media platforms are the perfect places to deny nuance in favour of extreme opinions – and we are hooked on them, says author Jamie Bartlett Source: Why is populism booming? Today’s tech is partly to blame | Jamie Bartlett | Opinion | The ...
👓 Week in micro.blog 08-12-18 | John Johnston
in praise of my body
Web as Social Network
I Watch Movies Microcast
poetry
mini communities
Now and Then
Federated Wiki
0.39% of the web.
Inoreader as an IndieWeb feedreader
IndyWeb frustrations
Hand curated discovery still has a place on the web, particularly for people in whom you have a level of trust. I’d take this anytime over the algorithmic ideas that Twitter or Facebook might give me.
👓 Following People or Feeds in the #IndieWeb #mb #DoOO #edtechchat #literacies” | Greg McVerry
I am scrolling through history (h/t to Kevin Marks for reminding of the ccurated posts by danah boyd) as we discuss how best to follow people in social readers on the IndieWeb. Tantek Çelik has suggested nobody ever on the history of the web wants to follow feeds. danah seemed to agree in 2004. T...
👓 Gonna take a communbity to hold that back scratcher: @Tumblr to the #IndieWeb | Greg McVerry
👓 disconnected thoughts on fandom and the indieweb | 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 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
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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👓 Good evening, I have some thoughts that are kind … | Ruth on glammr.us Mastodon
Good evening, I have some thoughts that are kind of meta to the fediverse and apply into society more broadly. One public toot, then I'll thread
So... I get torn between two principles & I think they're a reason why shared solutions like masto are so important.Principle 1: own your shit / pay for the shit you use
Principle 2: there should be plenty of low-barrier & "free" spaces for people to congregate in some way.
This is tied to my being a librarian tbh.
👓 Digital Essay Post | Lindsey’s Blog
(I feel like thats a good song to listen to while reading this.) This semester has been incredibly difficult for me. I have been hit incredibly hard with a relapse of my eating disorders, along wit…
👓 How Journalists Are Redefining the Word ‘Kicker’ | merriam-webster.com
The word has long had a specific meaning in journalism. Now it has two.