There's some interesting stuff there, though they advocate for technology that is obscure and difficult to implement and make it seem that it's the only way to participate in the indie web. They probably should have chosen a different name for their website.

It would be nice to see, but I doubt that anything like that would happen.

Some people view the IWC is opinionated or a form of technoelitism

https://lilymara.xyz/posts/2024/07/technoelitism/

https://so1o.xyz/blog/3-body-problem

And some people don't want to associate them with the small web and the like because they promote using things like AWS

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-small-web-101/

I do like some of their ideas, like the blog themes. New bloggers would probably get a kick out of taking part. Sometimes the themes reflect on the IndieWeb too

https://vhbelvadi.com/indieweb-carnival-round-up-dec-2025

a lot of links don't work. well the article is 5 years old so can't complain

so beautiful...

Hacker News and Lobsters are bad examples. Hacker News shadows bans you if you have the wrong IP, and Lobsters does not load if you use a VPN. They have a small size, but wrong ethics sometimes.

I didn’t realize “small web” meant “use tiny font”.

Thanks. I thought out a plain text syntax (like todo.txt for example) for creating ranking lists, I'm working on making it good enough and it's formal definition. Then I (we) can work on processors that convert that defined syntax into more advanced and different presentations, while the txt format itself is easily readable and usable by itself, and super simple to create, maintain and share.

I'll post the updates here. Maybe it becomes a common thing!

@somegeek No reason you couldn’t put more than 4 in a /top4. Or do /top. Or a totally new slash page of your design! slashpages.net is but a very unofficial guide on a few known slash pages. It isn’t meant to be the decider on what does or doesn’t count. I have a (very much work in-progress) /top4 page and I’ve already linked to other lists I have that aren’t strictly 4-in-length 🤷‍♂️

I don't like the neologistic use of "federated" while describing old protocols with server-to-server communication.

You almost had me until you started trying to sell me something.

It is a special way to render an article indeed. I tend to lose focus in longer texts so this format was perfect, reading it paragraph per paragraph.

Took a peek at the article, and it is bothering me as I'm a fast reader, or at least faster than the article draws text to seem more impactful.

So to those that also read faster, a tip, quickly scroll all the way to the bottom and then back up to load most of the text.

"Veneer"

That, Verily, is the second time I View such Verbiage. Though the Verbose extent I remain to Verify, I hope it is of Voluble read, and not the Volume of prose to be of Vain poetic Value.

(Sorry, couldn't hold it; but will be reading it when I get the time)

Interesting! Didnt realize RSS had such an impact.

When you say linking identity, what do you mean? Validating that different accounts on different services belong to the same person, or linking for authentication, or something else?

For the former something like Mastodon’s verified profile fields (e.g. homepage) could be used - if one uses the same verified field across services, it shows that they all belong to the same person.

Yep (Warning may be EXTREMELY LOUD) https://z0r.de/5112

Zombo.com.is remarkably different. You used to be able to do anything...

Well yes, zombo.com is still up and running. Why would you need any other site?

Wait, looks like it got purchased by someone else. Enshittification has truly reached everything...

I saw this posted elsewhere, Its very interesting but it should be cryptographically signed via /pgp.txt

An issue would be something Xkcd joked about

A less agressive approach imo is to have RSS-tracking instances and bots. It is not uncommon, that I can observe, for smaller sites to have those, and by leveraging trackers, you at least can keep track of those without having to push against the majority of the internet.

I really like shellsharks.com, especially the Scrolls they publish. There are always so many interesting links to indie web sites in there.

I am wondering about this too. The article, ActivityPub on a (mostly) static website, goes into detail about what is involved.