An Online Book Club Across Our Own Websites
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Notes and reading tagged indieweb
Google Search Keeps Moving Away From the Web
Google search results increasingly hide destinations behind opaque goto links, continuing a long shift from map of the web to destination.
Inspired by autom.dev · Autom
Worth Wandering: Hundred Rabbits
Two artists living aboard a sailboat built games, Uxn, comics, and cooking knowledge around computers that stay understandable when power and the internet are not assumptions.
Inspired by 100r.ca · Rek Bell & Devine Lu Linvega
Keep the Internet Funky
The web is special because anyone can publish and link without permission. Put what you care about on a site you control, then let the platforms point back.
My Small Answer to the Friendship Recession Is to Tell My Friends They Matter
Building a /friends page made me think about the people I have let drift out of my life. A link cannot maintain a friendship, but it can be a reason to reach out and tell someone they still matter.
Inspired by friendshiprecession.com · Nick Gray
Worth Wandering: HTML Energy
HTML Energy reminds us the web is still something a person can make— open a text file, write some HTML, and you have a website.
Inspired by html.energy · Laurel Schwulst & Elliott Cost
Worth Wandering: Ytoo!
Ytoo! is a one-person web portal built to send you somewhere else—dense links, hand curation, fake ads, and a guestbook that proves people use it.
Inspired by ytoo.org · VegBao
Joshternet.org Is Live
Joshternet.org is live as the public home for the Joshternet—still PRE-JOSH, with three draft RFCs and room for other Joshes to find what is wrong.
Inspired by joshternet.org
I May Have Accidentally Started the Joshternet
After finding 2,000 Joshes on the independent web, draft RFCs for a decentralized Joshternet—/.well-known/josh, stay on your own site, Joshness is declared never derived.
Inspired by github.com
Against Platforms — Mike Pepi
I Found More Than 2,000 Joshes on the Independent Web
Joshing You lists 2,083 Josh-named personal sites. Wandering the directory restores finding something because you were not looking for it—and this site’s Now page is in there.
Inspired by joshing.you
We Buried the Web Under Too Much Gunk
Dave Winer’s How the Web Got Gunked argues platforms replaced replaceable web parts with accounts, proprietary feeds, and locked-in writing—offering a simple test: if a piece cannot be replaced without permission, it is not part of the open web.
Inspired by daveverse.org · Dave Winer
A Solid Underdog for the Open Web
rss.chat does not need to dominate the web—it needs enough people willing to use it, test it, and show there is still another way to create social software.
Inspired by scripting.com · Dave Winer
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation — Cory Doctorow
A Website That Moves With the Day
A personal site can gradually change with the visitor’s day—personality and experimentation in the interface, not only utility or static branding.
Inspired by localghost.dev · Sophie Koonin
