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I also deeply miss the times when people had their "sites", which had more personality/memorability than a twitter/instagram feed. Maybe the time for "personal
by herval 7y ago
I also deeply miss the times when people had their "sites", which had more personality/memorability than a twitter/instagram feed.
Maybe the time for "personal web spaces" is past and the web will remain " short form content scattered around other people's platforms", or maybe those platforms are popular just because of the network effect?
I've been toying with ideas to bring "social" aspects into sites, as I think the most difficult component, these days, is discoverability (finding a twitter profile is a lot easier than finding a random wordpress blog) and recurrence (nobody uses RSS anymore, for instance, so how do you even know about new content to come back to?).
Or maybe we're just nostalgic, and the future is indeed shorter and shorter bits of text and 5-second vertical video.
- eitland 7y agoSee https://www.jvt.me https://www.jvt.me for some really interesting examples of what can be done on the indieweb now. (I found that site because he shared a link to a post I wrote.) Edit: an earlier version of this post said I found it in the referrers log. It seems I was wrong.
- jamietanna 7y agoThanks for sharing my site! As you say, I'm quite big with IndieWeb, and for readers there are quite a few other folks you'll want to see - https://snarfed.org/ https://snarfed.org/ https://tantek.com/ https://tantek.com/ https://aaronparecki.com/ https://aaronparecki.com/ and https://www.barryfrost.com/ https://www.barryfrost.com/ to name just a few. If anyone is interested learning more about the IndieWeb, https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/ https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/ is a transcript of a conference talk I gave on what the IndieWeb is