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ask street-bbq vendor or cleaning-lady or uber-driver what is a "GitHub"
If you can learn to make a hamburger, with or without AI, they can learn to manage their site.
Or at least they won't enjoy it.
Physical activity is enjoyable for most people, whereas mental is painful.
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I’ve never had an rss on any blog/site I’ve ever hosted and never felt like I’m missing anything What is the advantage to me of maintaining an rss? Is there some giant rss feed following community I’m missing?
Do you think I'll just check manually every day to see if you wrote a new post? That for each and every blog I follow? That's like comparing old school Windows software updating where you "just have to go on the website and read the news" vs `apt update && apt upgrade`.
If IndieWeb wants content, burying it under a ton of tech soup is the exact opposite of what they claim they want. How do the developers not realise that this set of protocols is completely unworkable for 90% of users? Please stop developing systems where the engineering is front and centre. If you want to put content UX first, you need to do exactly that, with a one-click solution that gets users up and running inst…
Its not one click, but is massively simple and building up tooling around it to make it easier would also be super simple.
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They're not just "important", a blog without RSS/Atom feed is like a car without wheels.
I’ve never had an rss on any blog/site I’ve ever hosted and never felt like I’m missing anything What is the advantage to me of maintaining an rss? Is there some giant rss feed following community I’m missing?
https://blog.chromium.org/2021/05/an-experiment-in-helping-u...
It seems they killed it in 2025, maybe to make space for the AI button.
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Indieweb is sometimes tied to self-hosting to give people configurabilty and flexibilty. It does keep indieweb for the few and not the many.
Rather than self-hosting, IndieWeb advocate for managing hosting; like GitHub Pages or similar.
Some examples of that exist for sure.
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Its initial 7 steps: having your domain, managing your site, creating your pages... are quite accessible. There is some unavoidable complexity, such as configuring DNS. However, with interest and AI, there are no real limitations.
Of course https://xkcd.com/2501/
This is essentially DNS, every single step of the way. Hosting wouldn't be hard if ISPs weren't so hostile with carrier-grade NATs, if HTTP/S wouldn't rely on DNS primarily, if legitimization were using actually mTLS instead... and all of the things usually break because of DNS and (lack of) proper standardization.
DNS in its current form is such a shitshow of RFCs overriding RFCs overriding RFCs...and not a single moment was spent on the configuration of DNS, or a protocol to request a domain, or a protocol to authenticate a domain, or a protocol to host something for a domain, ...
/nerdrage
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A CV on your personal domain is the most IndieWeb thing you can do, it means your professional identity lives under your control, not LinkedIn's. The "anarchy symbol on expensive clothes" critique works when someone claims to reject the system while feeding it. IndieWeb does not claim to reject professionalism, it claims that your content should belong to you and outlive any platform. The headshot, the CV, the polish…
When i think about being indie, I think about the era when personal websites were not meant to be money business and the common sense on the internet was to adopt a pseudonym and never tell anyone where you live. Having a CV seems antithetical to the entire idea of indieness.
so indieweb is like your own personal website?
The Internet is already independent - warez and torrents amd smuggling sites and groups prove this Anyone can go right now to a DNS registry and set up a url with tld and as many redirects as needed and host locally or remote servers.
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What does "neutral" mean? Which ones are more neutral ones? Any examples of issues with Google, or with the more neutral ones?
Ultimately controlled by a country "more neutral" than the USA. Looks like .me is not neutral.