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Johan Bové

If you live in Germany or Austria and want to get started with your own website, as part of the , it is good to know about the "impressumspflicht". Info in English: https://indieweb.org/Impressum

Johan Bové

At the moment the Mastodon instance at indieweb.social is struggling to keep up with the network surge. I still have my own site here however where I am writing this post on. Chugging along the stream - Don't forget that using your own site for posting to Mastodon and the Fediverse is totally fine and actually promoted. It's called

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Johan Bové

One of the reasons why I keep my IRC connection going is the amazing IRC channels. Thanks to some awesome bot programming (Loqi) you can follow up pretty neatly what is happening in a unobtrusive, ad-free manner.

Johan Bové

First week without Twitter went well - getting by just fine keeping up-to-date on the topics I am most interested in by means of IRC, RSS, ActivityPub, Webmentions, the Fediverse and the Indieweb.

Johan Bové

Just a reminder that all of the tools are made by enthusiasts in their spare time and are open source, so if you see something off, then please report. Helps a million.

Johan Bové

Reminds me I need to send some moneys to Tim for keeping my Mastodon instance up over at https://indieweb.social.

Johan Bové

I'm contemplating never to log in again to the bird site, even from before this rich-man-wants-to-control-the-digital-world drama - Logged out two weeks ago and thanks to Indieweb's POSSE I haven't had to actually interact manually with it anymore, all while still being "present" there.

Johan Bové

Even after two years on the IndieWeb, I still get the process to reply to a reply _wrong_ sometimes.

Johan Bové

Syndicating the posts from my site now also to the on my new profile thanks to the Known plugin: https://github.com/danito/KnownMastodon

Johan Bové

Just wanted to say it here today for everyone reading this: THANK YOU to everyone who is contributing or using anything related to the . You are all heroes and wonderful human beings in my eyes!

Johan Bové

My online presences are a reflection of who I am and what I care about - at least publicly.

Johan Bové

Apparently Google went down for a lot of people today and I did not notice any issues at all. Thank you , @duckduckgo and my email and webhost @antagonistnl for offering great alternatives!

Johan Bové

That Twitter admin hack shows how important it is to own our own online content and even our own platforms for posting on the Web. Want to learn more? Make yourself a cup of your favorite drink and have a look at https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started

Johan Bové

Camp West is ongoing this weekend: https://indieweb.org/2020/West
Schedule with presentations: https://indieweb.org/2020/West/Schedule

Johan Bové

Had that dream again where teleportation is a thing within the indieweb community.

Johan Bové

Augmented my Known site with the integration of (Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate on Your Own Site) through originating from @Feedly and @Pocket.

Johan Bové

Seems like "going Indieweb" has given my online presence a huge boost by checking out the search results looking up myself;

Johan Bové

You know what I really ❤️ about the is how all documentation and communication between the enthusiasts is so well organised and perfectly made available for future reference and it all is linked up really well together. You can keep up-to-date with the latest info by simply visiting the IRC chat logs from time to time. cf. https://chat.indieweb.org/meta/2019-10-21#bottom

Johan Bové

You can find me also on Matrix (@matrixdotorg) - my profile: https://matrix.to/#/@jbove:matrix.org

Johan Bové

Funny how a simple T-shirt, albeit uniquely designed and in limited supply, actually kick-started me to invest - more - spare time to contribute to the open-source development of the CMS project.