Into the Personal-Website-Verse Posted May 12, 2019 by Matthias Ott 1569 Webmentions #blogging #indieweb #letsfixit #personal #web #websites Social media in 2019 is a garbage fire. What started out as the most promising development in the history of the Web – the participation of users in the creation of content and online dialogue at scale – has turned into a swamp of sensation, lies, hate speech, harassment, and noise. Your Unfriendly Neighborhood # Craving for attention and engagement, our timelines have changed. Algorithms now prioritize content from people with a huge following and everything that is loud and outrageous. It’s all about what the masses and the bots “want”, what they will like, share, and click. This strategy might be driving sales of ads because traditional online marketers are obsessed with quantity and it is – besides selling user data – the only answer they found for venture capital constantly demanding a bang for the buck. Yet it leads to an experience that is so often just more of the same and at the same time much less predictable, less organic, and less adjustable to your own preferences. As Craig Mod writes, “social networks seem more and more to say: You don’t know what you want, but we do.” Consequently, it has become substantially harder for people with a small to medium following to get their voices heard and find a practical and creative use for services like Twitter or Medium. Twitter, for example, used to be that place where you would meet nice and brilliant people from the web community and make new friends, where you could find and share ideas and inspiration. But Twitter has changed so drastically and I’ve seen so many people turning quiet or leaving completely, that I don’t know how long this journey will continue. As with so many technologies before, the initial hopeful enthusiasm that accompanied the rise of social media has given way to disillusionment. One day, Twitter and other publishing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or Medium will indeed die, like so many sites before them. And every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created and with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history. Data loss isn’t our only problem, though. If you decide to publish your work on a platform like Medium, you’re giving away control over it. What if Medium suddenly decided to extend the already existing paywall to all articles? There’s not much you could do about it. Simply because you don’t own your content anymore. Maybe this wouldn’t be a big issue if owning your content today wasn’t more important than ever. Especially, but not only, if you are working as an independent or freelancer, your content is not just something you happen to have created – and for which you own the copyright of, by the way – but it is also part of your identity. It is part of who you are, what you’re thinking about, what you believe in, and what you’re up to. It is part of the story you are about to tell. It is part of the change you seek to make. Your content is one of your most valuable assets and thus owning it is invaluable. So it comes as no surprise that more and more people are looking for alternatives. Not only for alternatives to Twitter or Medium per se but to the way social media currently works in general. Many are craving for more control, less noise, and for having more real and meaningful conversations again. Homecoming # There is one alternative to social media sites and publishing platforms that has been around since the early, innocent days of the web. It is an alternative that provides immense freedom and control: The personal website. It’s a place to write, create, and share whatever you like, without the need to ask for anyone’s permission. It is also the perfect place to explore and try new things, because, as Seth Godin likes to say, we now live in a world of “unlimited bowling”. It is totally up to you what you create and because you have unlimited shots on the Web, you can try out different formats, different styles, different topics. Regardless of what other people might think and although it might not work. Creation is free. A personal website is also a powerful playground to tinker with new technologies and discover your powers. Take Rachel Andrew’s and Sara Soueidan’s word for it: - My first #CSS Grid implementation was on my own site- My first service worker implementation was on my own site- My first real-world CSS Variables implementation was/is on my own site (WIP)- My first Variable Fonts implementation will be on my own site- ...— Sara Soueidan (@SaraSoueidan) February 8, 2019 I couldn’t agree more. Building things for your own site is so worthwhile because you are allowed to make mistakes and learn without pressure. If it doesn’t work today, well, maybe it’ll work tomorrow. It doesn’t matter. And so it was on my own site that I, too, wrote my first service worker, that I first tried out CSS Grid, that I designed and implemented a custom syntax highlighting theme, that I set up an RSS/Atom and JSON feed, that I wrote three plugins for Craft CMS in PHP/Yii, and Twig, with one of those plugins adding Webmention support to my site. I also learned a ton about accessibility, performance optimization, or web font loading. All of which I then could put to use in my day-to-day work as a designer and developer. But maybe the most compelling reason why a personal website and also learning how to build one is incredibly valuable is this: community. Since the days of “guest books”, personal websites have been a place to receive feedback and discuss ideas and concepts with others. Often by the means of comments, sometimes even by writing a series of follow-up articles back and forth. Now imagine, for a moment, an environment where a decentralized fabric of connected personal sites allows everyone to publish their own content but also enables each individual to engage in an open discussion – answering, challenging, and acknowledging the ideas of others through this universe of personal sites. As idealistic as this vision of the Web might seem these days, it isn’t that far out of reach. Much of what’s needed, especially the publishing part, is already there. It’s also not as if our sites weren’t already connected in one way or another. Yet much of the discussions and establishment of connections, of that social glue that holds our community together – besides community events in real life, of course –, mostly happens on social media platforms at the moment. But: this is a choice. If we would make the conscious decision to find better ways to connect our personal sites and to enable more social interaction again, and if we would then persistently work on this idea, then we could, bit by bit, influence the development of Web technologies into this direction. What we would end up with is not only a bunch of personal websites but a whole interconnected personal-website-verse. Weaving Our Web # It’s, of course, safe to assume that a web of personal websites will never be an equivalent substitute for a social network like Twitter. But that’s also not the goal. Personal websites are called personal websites because they are just that: personal. Thus, the primary objective still is to have a place to express ourselves, to explore ourselves, a place that lasts while the daily storms pass by. A place of consideration, and yes, a place of proudly sharing what we do, what we think, and what we care about. A place to contribute your voice and help others. A home on the internet. A place to tell your story. But on top of that, we have the chance to (re-)establish personal websites also as central elements of online discourse and as entry points for people who are new to the web community. For this, we need to find ways to create an ecosystem that lives up to the diversity of the personal-website-verse. Consequently, what will hold our sites together, is most possibly not one technology to rule them all, but a multitude of different and ever-evolving technologies. Things like hyperlinks, comments, Webmentions, and RSS, of course, but also other technologies that have yet to be invented. Not only would this leave enough room for individual preferences, but it would also make the whole construct more resilient while still being flexible enough to evolve over time. The first step of this is to explore more ways to establish new and strengthen existing connections – and also to improve findability. We don’t have to reinvent everything from scratch but can build on so much that already exists. Some things that can serve as good starting points are: Quote people and link to other sites. # Whenever you stumble upon an interesting thought on another site, write about it and link to it. Not only is it respectful to link to the person you quoted, but hyperlinks are also the magic force holding the Web together. They are both helpful and powerful. You can also add a links section to your site, where you collect interesting links you found on the web and over time build an archive for yourself and others. By the way: What happened to the blogroll? Remember? That little box in the sidebar of blogs that would link to the websites of friends and fellow bloggers. The blogroll isn’t dead yet – some people still use it. So how about adding a little section or page to your site that does exactly the same? Link to the personal websites of people you respect and appreciate, maybe with a little description? While we’re on it, we could also bring webrings back. Charlie Owen recently also wrote about them and Max Böck was so inspired he built a starter kit for hosting your own webring. Use RSS feeds and readers. # RSS has been pronounced dead over and over again, yet it is still not dead and I doubt that it ever will be. In fact, it is witnessing a little comeback from time to time. Personally, I have started to use it more regularly again and others have, too. RSS is a great way to follow the people whose posts, ideas, and opinions matter to you. So if you write or put any kind of content on your site, also make sure to add an RSS feed. And then go and add some sites to a feed reader like Feedbin, Feedly, or Michael Scharnagl’s Feediary. If you use a Mac or iOS device, also have a look at Reeder. Use website directories. # There are a few really helpful directories that list RSS feeds or personal sites and that can help you find interesting content. For example, Andy Bell’s personalsit.es, Dave Winer’s feedbase, the IndieWeb Directory, or RSS lists like the ones of Sime Vidas or Stuart Robson. Use Webmentions and Microformats – and join the IndieWeb. # Another powerful technology which can glue our sites together is Webmention. Webmention is a W3C recommendation that describes a simple protocol to notify any URL when a website links to it, and for web pages to request notifications when somebody links to them. The mentioned site can then grab a snippet of the HTML of the website that links to it and, if it is enriched with Microformats, display the mention somewhere, for example under a blog post like this one. Aside from all questions of data protection, Webmentions are a powerful tool and one of the many technologies that originated in the IndieWeb community. If you don’t know about the IndieWeb yet, take a look at my article on reclaiming control over your content, or head over to indieweb.org. Built around the basic idea that you should own your content, the IndieWeb community is the birthplace of a few powerful technologies that all have the goal to make your personal website the center of a more open, decentralized web. Webmentions are a great way to connect and intertwine two sites and thus, two ideas. You could even build something like a commenting system around Webmention – if only it still wasn’t a bit complicated for mere mortals to implement them. Luckily, there are plugins available for content management systems like Wordpress, ProcessWire, or Perch. I will update my own Webmention plugin for Craft CMS over the coming weeks so that it supports the latest version 3 of Craft CMS. Go to meetups and conferences and spread the word. # There are meetups for everything and they are a great place to meet like-minded people, exchange, connect, and tell others about how great having a personal website is. So look up if there’s maybe a meetup about blogging in your city. Also, meetups on topics like WordPress, writing, or publishing in general could be worth a visit. Then there are more and more Homebrew Website Clubs emerging. Homebrew Website Clubs, which are also an IndieWeb idea, are a great opportunity to work with others on your personal sites once or twice a month. And if you don’t find an appropriate meetup or event near you, how about starting one? “Don’t do it like me. Do it like you.” # As you can see, there are many ways and many good reasons to start building your site today. But whatever you start, keep in mind that you don’t have to build something from start to finish to show it to the world. To the contrary, it can be a great idea to start as simple and rudimentary as possible, to get the fundamentals right before diving too deep into over-complicated solutions. Take your time to think about how to build a site that’s truly tailored to you and your work. What are you really trying to achieve? What content do you want to create? Who is your audience? And how does a website look like that reflects all that in terms of structure, hierarchy, complexity, visual design, and scope? Kylie Timpani, for example, who recently worked as the lead designer on v17 of CSS-Tricks, is now doing an open redesign of her website. So she is building the website out in the open, starting with some blank and raw HTML, and will be documenting what she’s learning along the way. This, by the way, is generally a great thing to do on your site: Document your process and share all the things you learn. Amber Wilson is doing this on her site, too. Since she decided to become a web developer, she regularly writes about her experience and what she learned. Not only is this a great way to help others find their way, but it also shows that we all have to learn and we all have things we don't know. Don’t let that stop you. Also, don’t hesitate to write about little ideas and observations that might seem too small or unimportant to share. We all have our unique perspectives and even the smallest experience is worth sharing. Someone else might be in a similar situation as you or also in a completely different situation. They both might learn something new from reading about your experiences. Each contribution to the community, even the smallest one, is useful and will make a change. So just write. By the way: If you are struggling to find something to write about and feel blocked, remember that there is no such thing as writer‘s block. The more you write and create, the easier it will get. To Begin, Begin # When I studied design back in the early 2000s, my digital media professor, Tom Duscher, held the view that every designer should have their own blog. It was still the early days of blogging but he already saw the potential and power of writing about your craft and reflecting on your experiences. At the time, I thought I understood what he meant, but it took me over 10 years to finally overcome (or simply ignore) the fear of being wrong and start to publish on my site. I won’t ever look back. Building and maintaining your personal website is an investment that is challenging and can feel laborious at times. Be prepared for that. But what you will learn along the way does easily make up for all the effort and makes the journey more than worthwhile. But most importantly, having a website makes you part of an amazing community of creators, forming new friendships, new connections, and new opportunities. This is invaluable. Personal websites are the backbone of the independent Web of creators. Even after all those years, they remain a vital part of what makes the web the most remarkable and open medium to date. We shouldn’t take this for granted, though. If we don’t pay enough attention and care about the open web enough, we might lose this valuable asset. So let us protect the Web as a source of inspiration, diversity, creativity, and community. Let us maintain what we have and work together to make this little part of the magic of the Web sparkle even brighter. Let us help new members of the community to start their journey. Let us build, prototype, publish, and connect. Let’s start today. If you start a new personal site or already have one, you are welcome to share it below. There are three ways to do that: If your site supports that, just send a Webmention via your personal website. You can also use the form below this article to send a Webmention. Then, you can reply to this tweet – all replies are automatically added to this article as a Webmention. Or, write me a quick email and I’m happy to manually add your site below. – The header image illustration is based on photographs of the Apple Lisa by Victor R. Ruiz and the Apple Lisa mouse by Marcin Wichary, both released under a Creative Commons license (Attribution 2.0 Generic, CC BY 2.0). ~ 1519 Webmentions SDPSDavidPrince here! I write . Draw . Code . Share | SDPSDavidPrince here! I write . Draw . Code . Share | Avatar-Foto Patrick Clancey Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink? by Patrick Clancey Is mobile-first CSS always the best option? Patrick Clancey explores the pros and cons and lays out an alternative. CodeJune 08, 2022June 15 Is mobile-first CSS always the best option? Patrick Clancey explores the pros and cons and lays out an alternative. Jamie Tanna Why should you blog? A writeup of my talk at DDD East Midlands around why you should start blogging. Е;в;г;е;н;и;й; К;у;з;н;е;ц;о;в; Е;в;г;е;н;и;й; К;у;з;н;е;ц;о;в; Е;в;г;е;н;и;й; К;у;з;н;е;ц;о;в; (M) 1 и;ю;н;я; 2019 https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse Exactly. Oб;н;о Exactly. @condor @condor Je crois que ce qui me plaît le plus dans cette définition d'Internet, c'est qu'elle correspond parfaitement à l'idée de déjà-là communiste décrite par Friot @sia @sia Thanks! Yes, I was thinking the same about whether people want their avatars to be shown. I mean, if someone adds microformats with an h-card to their site and maybe even Webmentions, one could argue that displaying their avatar next to a Webmention might be totally fine for them. But if they like something on social media, that’s a whole different story, because they have no idea that their image will be ... Matthias Ott Still, I need to improve how Webmentions are displayed on my site… 🤔 What are your favorite implementations? @matthiasott @matthiasott here's an example post with all three types of webmentions. I also lazy load but I think the images were originally from Twitter so I might have been using the smaller version's URL. https://sia.codes/posts/architecting-data-in-eleventy/ Architecting data in Eleventy Steven Woodson Joining the IndieWeb with Webmentions and Microformats In This Article Resources IndieWeb & Personal Blogging Tutorials & How-tos Documentation & Services Great Examples I’ve Referenced Work in Progress I’ve finally spent some time setting up Webmentions and adding some Microformats formatting to this site! ... Matthias Ott Leaving Twitter Behind Matthias Ott I wrote this three years ago: “One day, Twitter and other publishing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or Medium will indeed die, like so many sites before them. And every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created and with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history.” Own your content. Publish on your own site. https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse Into ... Andreas Spiegler 2 July 2023 | 11:10 @matthiasott gerade wieder gebloggt. Fühlt sich richtig an, alles an einem eigenen Ort zu haben :) Mikołaj Hołysz 7 November 2023 | 00:50 @matthiasott This argument makes very little sense to me. Personal websites require even more care and die even more quickly, particularly when something bad happens to the owner. Not everybody has techies in the family and knows how to set up things like domain and server transfers on death from a legal perspective. A Medium account is for forever, or until the service goes down. Jules 🍺 2 July 2023 | 09:18 @matthiasott thinking about it, this is the first technology that even has the slightest potential of recording what large numbers of people thought, the rest of history has only ever been what the scribes wrote or publishers printed and then only what survived the fires etc. Paweł Grzybek 2 July 2023 | 09:13 @matthiasott timeless advice ! Jens Oliver Meiert 2 July 2023 | 09:07 @matthiasott,—may I—, and this has countless advantages https://meiert.com/en/blog/run-your-own-website/ How Running Your Own Website Is Much Better for You Than You Think · Jens Oliver Meiert AGF : poemproducer 2 July 2023 | 08:56 @matthiasott true, but a very privileged position Patrick H. Lauke 23 June 2023 | 12:46 @matthiasott ...until you die and payments for your own domain/hosting lapse, and then that content too disappears forever as well... Matthias Ott 23 June 2023 | 12:51 @patrick_h_lauke 🫠 Gary Bunker :verified: 13 December 2022 | 14:03 @matthiasott I've definitely become re-energized to update my site (25+ years old) in recent months. I can easily make backups of that information, and keep them on a thumbdrive if need be. Collector Of Dreams 24 November 2022 | 11:21 @matthiasott you are right but i Also like to let go...It is too much effort for my scarce energies, on the other side, i enjoy more learning from others than sharing my #wisdom that has to do with #oneirology. In fact when i did share about It, not much interest was raised since people #dream and #forget their dreams and have no idea about the feeling of having so #SolidDreams that they get the same status as ... Steven Bodzin 16 November 2022 | 02:14 @matthiasott well yeah but your own site dies too, unless you maintain it. There is no substitute for paper Kali 15 November 2022 | 17:15 @matthiasott my only issue with this idea is that everything will come to an end eventually. I used to follow a guy who ran a #raspberrypi drone blog half a decade ago but since his passing, I can’t find any records of his build log anymore. My only guess as to what happened is that his family stopped paying for hosting and the site came down too. I wish there were records left of him outside of my memory :( ... fabián 15 November 2022 | 13:55 @matthiasott 🧠 Siddiqui@mastodon.world 15 November 2022 | 13:41 @matthiasott Looks reality Chris Pirillo 15 November 2022 | 07:52 @matthiasott ...there's always a trade-off. For some of us early online publishers, it was impossible to stem the tide / rise of social media and centralized platforms. But, as they say, the pendulum swings both ways. What's old is new again. fireynis 15 November 2022 | 07:50 @matthiasott I would agree and possibly go one further and make sure you publish your content in a transferable format, something like markdown over a WordPress site that stores it in a proprietary way in a DB. Tools like #hugo and #statamic work for this! hugo statamic ag 15 November 2022 | 06:57 @matthiasott I find POSSE - Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere - a pragmatic balance. https://indieweb.org/POSSE POSSE Mikołaj Hołysz 13 November 2022 | 15:25 @arush @matthiasott Sites die too, though, and it’s likely that Joe Shmoe’s random little website will literally die when he does. Same with fediverse instances. A commercial service with a well-paid crew managing it has a much better chance of survival than a $5 Linode VPS managed by one person. If you host your own site, you have to consider what happens when you die, teach your kids / siblinks / parents to ... Russ 13 November 2022 | 14:45 @matthiasott I just borrowed a stack of books from the Deming Alliance. Inside many was an acknowledgment of who gifted the book. I found it beautiful. For example Daniel Mclaughlan 13 November 2022 | 12:23 @matthiasott Great article, thanks for sharing. I used to blog regularly and found a lovely community. We are still in contact on other platforms but I miss that space. I definitely had a blogroll🥰 Nowadays I want the convenience of a hosted platform like Wordpress dot com but the flexibility to explore the nuts and bolts. Unfortunately I have a tendency to get easily lost in the implementation that I forget ... Yoav Bergner 13 November 2022 | 01:24 @matthiasott I agree with this sentiment, but the longevity of personally controlled digital content is also questionable. We saw this migrating from floppy disk storage. Maybe it’s okay if we just wipe the slate clean every few years. Mathieu 13 November 2022 | 01:26 @matthiasott this is starting to grow on me. Already have the domain, just need to take the plunge... Matthias Ott 13 November 2022 | 01:41 @mathieuhuot …do it! 😁 It’s a lot of fun to build your site. Try to make it as easy and convenient for yourself to publish. And if it’s “only” an occasional thought, a little observation, or something you learned, that’s just fine. Enjoy making stuff. Good luck! 🤗 And in case you’re not sure about what to use: both @eleventy and @getkirby are fantastic. I use CraftCMS for my site and enjoy it ... Hikarii 12 November 2022 | 20:46 @matthiasott Realizing the day fast approaching as deviantart announced AI art generator and had everyone initially opt in. I always knew it but wasn't proactive enough. Sucks. a_regular-pear 12 November 2022 | 20:54 @matthiasott Outstanding article! Have been thinking about creating a website recently too. The problem is that unlike social media you have to buy a domain and host your website. For hosting I could just use a spare raspberry pi but I don't have a domain, do you perhaps have any solutions? Stone 12 November 2022 | 20:08 @matthiasott The PeWe Verse very catchy! Great post, thank you. Sebastian Peitsch 12 November 2022 | 19:30 @matthiasott das ist ne nette Prämisse mit dem kleinen Problem dass ich gerade erst wieder ne Abmahnung bekommen habe für meine Seite weil ich Google Schriften eingebunden habe... Matthias Ott 12 November 2022 | 19:43 @speitsch Oh, das ist Mist. 😔 Ist ja nicht per se ein Problem einer eigenen Website, trotzdem ärgerlich. Gegen den Anwalt wurde inzwischen soweit ich weiß Anzeige erstattet. War ja eine offensichtliche Abmahn-Masche. Ist einer Freundin auch mit ihrer Seite passiert (Webflow). Ihr Anwalt hat ihr geraten keinesfalls zu zahlen. Aber schon bescheuert genug, dass man zumindest auf sowas reagieren muss und Ärger ... Sebastian Peitsch 12 November 2022 | 19:44 @matthiasott Danke. Ich reagiere da gar nicht drauf. Ist aber schon die dritte die ich bekommen habe wegen solcher Spaßbären die meinen sie könnten das Recht ausnutzen. The vOICe vision BCI 😎🧠 12 November 2022 | 17:11 @matthiasott Does this assume that you will live longer than platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Medium? Roman Lutz 12 November 2022 | 17:07 @matthiasott … or at least publish also to your own site so it gets preserved when the networks go up in flames. I’m currently wondering what to do (and whether to do) something about my tweets. Not that there’s so much value in them, but I feel like there are a bunch of things I would like to keep. If only to go back ten years later and say “I told you so!” But that would require the timestamps to stay ... Armin Fritz 12 November 2022 | 17:00 @matthiasott A new dark age for future historians? Alex Wykoff 12 November 2022 | 16:08 @matthiasott Austin Kleon would agree. Own your turf https://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/37863874092 (The irony of him posting this on tumblr back then is not lost on me.) Own your turf muon 12 November 2022 | 15:54 @matthiasott I have never perceived twitter as more than a transient feed. Finding older content from other people is nearly impossible (at least I wasn't very successful in that regard). JP 12 November 2022 | 14:49 @matthiasott Your own site isn't going to live forever either though. It will disappear as soon as you stop paying your provider, for whatever reason. Just saying. GeekGyrl 12 November 2022 | 14:37 @matthiasott This is why I run my own website/blog and have done so for about 25 years. Folks used to get so confused because it my web address wasn’t pointing to MySpace or LiveJournal back in the day. Victoria Elliott 12 November 2022 | 13:41 @matthiasott whilst I agree with the principle of owning your own content; social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter provide an almost universal ease of use which alternatives struggle to compete with. This then leads to an inequality between those who do and do not have the inclination, confidence, or skills to master a new platform which isn’t intuitive to use (such as Mastodon or having your own website). Iris Thiele Isip Tan MD, MSc 12 November 2022 | 13:31 @matthiasott was just thinking about this the other day, that I should publish more on my website. Alexander Lehner, CPACC 12 November 2022 | 11:45 @matthiasott Great article! I started my own web dev blog early this year and love experimenting with it. Need to implement Webmentions and RSS real soon. Thanks for the inspiration 🙌 😊 Andreas 12 November 2022 | 10:38 @matthiasott one way is #obsidian +obsidian publish or free opensource alternative like pubsidian, flowershow.app, obsidian mkdocs, perlite.... obsidian Michael Marek 12 November 2022 | 10:35 @matthiasott Sauber ! Und ich bin so dreist, hier einen von mir verfassten Artikel aus 2018 und auf deutsch zu verlinken: https://michaelmarek.ghost.io/social-media-is-a-mental-prison/ Social Media is a mental prison Rémy Wehrung@TheDarklinux@techhub.social matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Astrid Günther IndieWeb The IndieWeb[^indieweb.org/] is about taking control of your content, sharing your thoughts and ideas in one place and then spreading them on other social platforms. What if a social network becomes so that you don't feel comfortable there anymore? Or it gets shut down altogether? In that case, what happens to all your posts? In my opinion, your digital identity should belong to you and not to a commercial ... @matthiasott @helgztech @matthiasott After living through several more or less spectacular Board crashes, I finally accepted, that all the time and work put into the discussions are short living. But then, I didn't write anything worth being saved for ages. 😉 Internet is not much sustainable than talking to someone in person. @phil @matthiasott So true! Coincidentally, @phil and I just had a conversation about this regarding SaaS in general: https://floss.social/@janriemer/109336793708971941 Jan (@janriemer@floss.social) K+M ✊;????;????; One day, Twitter and other publishing platforms like Facebook, Instagram (…) will indeed die, like so many sites before them. And every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created and with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… @JP30567 @helgztech @JP30567 Yes, that’s a real problem. And that’s why nobody says that it’s mutually exclusive. You can always post copies of your posts into silos and hope that they outlive you and your kids. 😜 But preserving your content and your URLs after your passing is indeed an unsolved problem we don’t talk about enough. Still all that doesn’t make it less compelling to keep my work and content on ... @matthiasott @JP30567 @matthiasott this. I've seen amazing resources become defunct when family had no interest in archiving a loved one's site. @JP30567 @helgztech @JP30567 I ping the Internet Archive every time I publish a post. But that only goes so far. Any ideas on what we could do on top of that? @matthiasott @matthiasott Dear Matthias. Thank you for reminding me. I remember reading your article back then. It felt like a welcome reinforcement to owning my own blog and that the blogging (and web-feed) community is still out there. I liked it then and I appreciate it now. So please feel warmly greeted my fellow blogging friend. 😘 @matthiasott @matthiasott yup I just gave similar advice: Advice on building your own ecosystem https://katecarruthers.com/2022/11/07/building-your-ecosystem/ Advice on building your own ecosystem @Tzipi @Tzipi You can – and should – get an archive of your Twitter data. That can be done via the settings. And there are a few solutions out there that let you backup tweets more regularly. I use a tool on my site (https://matthiasott.com/tweets/) called “Tweet Nest”, but unfortunately it isn’t maintained anymore. Tweets by @m_ott @matthiasott @matthiasott To my knowledge, there are a few #tools (and I believe & hope there will be more & better ones) that allow us to save at least some of the #content we have provided on #Twitter. As for me, Twitter has despotically locked/suspended some of my stuff/accounts, falling for reporting attacks, I believe, and I'm not sure how to "safely" save my #data w/o risking to lose it all. In my opinion, Twitter is ... @matthiasott @matthiasott You are absolutely right. When the public "lost" (gave away) the #WWW to corporate power years (actually decades) ago I went for a long (…) break using it as a tool – until a year ago, when I discovered how (even more) limited "free" speech is IRL; back then, I felt compelled to start using #Twitter and in a way I do regret it but on the other hand I learnt some lessons, accumulated some ... @Tzipi @Tzipi But you can only get an archive of your data if that account isn’t suspended, I think… @matthiasott @matthiasott exactly!👍😁 @vce_elliott @matthiasott @vce_elliott Yeah I've run my own sites for years, but it can cost money & upkeep that make it inaccessible to most, even w/1-click installers. WordPress.com is a good compromise since you can always export & transfer your site if you want or if the service discontinues. The only alternatives in the works that I can see might be govt-provided Solid Pods (data stores) https://solidcommunity.be/ or ... Jens Comiotto-Mayer “Twitter and other platforms […] will die, like so many sites before them. And every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created and with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history.” Own your content. Publish on your own site. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Tobias Hartmann – hamato.tez/.eth ????; In doubt, ask professionals like @m_ott and me and for further reading check out matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Sanskar matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Matthias Ott—bring back @mmatuzo website. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… (2/2) Evgeny Kuznetsov Evgeny Kuznetsov Evgeny Kuznetsov (M) June 1, 2019 https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse Exactly. Updated on Exactly. Matthias Ott Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Zach Leatherman You’re very welcome! Matthias Ott Wow, Zach! Thank you! 🤗💚🎈 Zach Leatherman It’s that time again to share everyone’s (*my) favorite blog post: the transformative and empowering Into The Personal Website Verse by @m_ott. Featuring everyone’s (*my) all time favorite quote: “Don’t do it like me. Do it like you” matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Alvin Bryan Your website is an ever-evolving CV too! Ajmal Afif I have the same "Notes" section like yours (probably from the likes of you and others). Agree on one of the best decisions made. Matthias Ott :) Juhis Having your own website and blog is such a great way to share, practice, experiment - and stay in control of your own content. And it can have much longer tail than in the "if you missed it, you won't see it" hyperspeed social media. Sara Soueidan What Matthias said. Write on your own blogs, syndicate elsewhere. Own your content! There's nothing like it. Sharmarke Hujale I became more determined to invest time in my personal website after reading the article Into the Personal-Website-Verse, written by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Matthias Ott Thank you, Zach! Zach Leatherman This post is legendary. Matthias Ott For example, learning about some idea, concept, or technology because you have to write about it, just getting stuff out of your head, documenting your thoughts in an archive (log 😜), or also helping just a few random strangers (or friends!) who thought your post was useful. Matthias Ott Yes, :D Besides the learning argument, I think there is no other way to get started with most things you do. I think Seth Godin said that it was the same with the young Bob Dylan or The Beatles: Why even bother playing in half-empty nightclubs in front of a few drunk people? patrick h. lauke (lazarus) #toryScum "Big Dog" not "success", more "why do i even bother shouting into the void where nobody sees it?" Matthias Ott Yes, if you measure “success” by the amount of readers/visits/likes then there is little point publishing stuff nobody sees – at first. But I’ve also experienced that I got a lot (more?) value out of less “successful” posts, as well: Aurelie Touchard Et si on revenait aux sites pour partager, en étant presque sûr que ça restera ? Matthias Ott Bonsoir Aurelie ! Glad you liked the article—thanks! You’re right. Not everyone can or wants to pay for hosting. You could get started with a “free” option like putting your site on @glitch, GitHub Pages, WordPress.com, Netlify, or an open source project like @Ghost. Aurelie Touchard Hello Matthias. I think everybody doesn't want to pay for hosting a website. Everywhere we depends from something, like Github, WordPress, or somewhere else you mentioned. These are some kind of community too. What is your opinion about it? Thanks for you interesting article! 🙂 patrick h. lauke (lazarus) #toryScum "Big Dog" only permanent as long as you pay for hosting, renew your domain name, etc... but sure also, there's often little point publishing content to your own site if nobody knows about it. so you need some other platform where everybody else is to be able to advertise it... Michael Reyes I'd argue that the personal website is your biggest asset in today's world of social media feeds and noisy advertising. It's a resume for your most creative pursuits and insights. @m_ott wrote this article about the importance of having one yourself. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Alex | Grow your creative business 🔥🔥 Adrian Sandu I was browsing my bookmarks and I ran into this older article by @m_ott on the topic of personal websites. If you are interested in creating content, I highly recommend you read it. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Yo, Mike T Kind of old article. Still a super cool idea. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Im م;س;ع;و;و;د; Hi guy if u know what art it is see that amazing #nft #art #Solana mintable.app/collectibles/i… SupBro FOLLOW ME and RETWEET ME for free #NFT ! Max Antonucci Few things give me the same sense of joy and accomplishment as having my own website, where I can put whatever the hell I want in whatever style I want. erin malone, mfa (she/her) That is so sad. I am running up against the acquisition erasure as I am digging into stories and work from women in the field. So much is just gone. I expect we will see this with personal archiving too as media evolves & files disappear. I miss the shoebox of stuff. Larry Cornett I worry about that. We need some sort of easy archival solution that's under our control gonna need a bigger The Hague it's easy and fun(?) Andrew (Storytelling + Scripting) Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Sharmarke Hujale Nothing beats having your own space, where you have the control Frank Meeuwsen Maak je eigen moederschip Natuurlijk is het niet tof voor al die Facebook medewerkers die zich nu het schompes werken om weer alles aan de praat te krijgen. Maar wist je dat er mogelijkheden zijn om buiten die grote tech-bedrijven om in contact te blijven met je vrienden en familie? Met een eigen domeinnaam, wat schijfruimte op het web en een handig blogsysteem kom je al een heel eind. Minder afhankelijk van grote techbedrijven die té ... Haruki Nakagawa First thing that came to mind when I saw all the Facebook products were down at the same time: Larry Cornett I remember Microsoft wiping out every trace of a startup that I worked with (after the acquisition) It was as if they never existed. I found one reference to it deep in someone's personal career story on their site Matthias Ott John Siebenthaler true today, true in 2009... Haruki Nakagawa Can't. I'm busy putting all my energy in manifesting the reality where it just never comes back. erin malone, mfa (she/her) As a researcher hunting for old content from the 90's and 2000's the only stuff that is stable and findable via wayback machine are blogs, personal sites and non-flash stuff. We lost a lot when everything migrated to big companies. Manfred Feiger Hallo Welt! Radical Web Design Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott. Why it is necessary to rebuild our personal homepages, and relearn to inhabit them. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Adalberto Gonzalez L Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Nils Müller #IdeeUmSieben Wir müssen uns nicht den großen sozialen Netzwerken ausliefern. Wir können auch einfach immer noch persönliche Webseiten im klassischen Stil gestalten und RSS-Feeds nutzen. Und es werden wieder mehr. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Roy Tang Shared via pocket: Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Tah Tor More and more people are rediscovering their personal websites as an alternative to social media that provides more control and freedom of expression. Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Ola Bamisaiye Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Hunter Miller matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Mathias Maelle Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… #Personal-website-verse Bix As idealistic as this vision of the Web might seem these days, it isn’t that far out of reach. Much of what’s needed, especially the publishing part, is already there. It’s also not as if our sites weren’t already connected in one way or another. Yet much of the discussions and establishment of connections, of that social glue that holds our community together – besides community events in real life, of ... Bix “With Webmention,” writes Aaron Parecki, “we’re explicitly focusing on enabling the kind of rich interactions people do on social media instead.” According to the webmention draft, such an interaction “can be an RSVP to an event, an indication that someone ‘likes’ another post, a ‘bookmark’ of another post, and many others”. Had I my druthers, the indieweb would pull away from likes and move ... Carl Likes Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… via @instapaper JoyMedia Do you ever think about what will happen to all that you upload? Someday it will be for not. Ott's got it right. Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Mike Solomon????; It’s 2020. What’s your excuse for not publishing your own blog or website? This post by @m_ott is a must-read ????; Mike Solomon????; It’s 2020. What’s your excuse for not publishing your own blog or website? This post by @m_ott is a must-read ????; Jorge Calle Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Larry Vincent Love this piece by ;@m_ott; on the call for the return of personal websites. I’m not just feeling nostalgic for the days of blogrolls and web rings, but longing for a return to creating and expressing instead of the social media slop we’re in now. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… HsiangHui Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer #web #decentralization matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Matthias Ott ????; You’re welcome, Thomas! And thanks for letting me know you liked the post. That it helped clarify your thoughts means a lot to me. :) Have a nice weekend! Thomas Wilson I read this last week, it’s really well put and helped clarify some of the things I’ve been thinking myself. Thanks for writing it :) Nicholas A Came across this cool piece again - part ode, part insight into what makes for a compelling personal web site in this day where the gears of the web seem tuned around anything but that: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Universe "It is an alternative that provides immense freedom and control: The personal website. It’s a place to write, create, and share whatever you like, without the need to ask for anyone’s permission." — @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Jean-Loup Adde Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… I really need to give more love to my personal web site/bubble. Arjan Zuidhof Waarom het zo belangrijk is je eigen stek op het web te hebben als je eigen content je lief is >>> matthiasott.com/articles/into-… 6LT Data Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) (matthiasott.com) : ift.tt/2Nbwl8N Igor Kulman Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Luis Orduz Will look into WebMentions for my own site. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… webuproar ????; ????; matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer Hacker News 200 Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221568…) Tom Metcalfe Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Richard Eskins Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer. A MUST READ for the last cohort of our Web Development students. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Danny ????; Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Hn150 Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221568…) Hacker News Feed Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Jani Tarvainen Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Josh Katzenmeyer Why the personal website is the past, present, and future. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Francesco Napoletano Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Joshua Gilless Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Having a personal website is great for so many reasons explored in the above blog post. You can try out all kinds of new things and get some experience throwing things you build out into the ether. M157q News RSS Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Article URL: https://t.co/KDekoufmfM Comments URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221568… Points: 100 # Comments: 90 Hacker News 100+ Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Jeremiah Lee I agree with everything in this and only add: put a Web Monetization tag on your content and subscribe to @Coil to support your peers doing the same. Matthew Graybosch I'm gonna level with you all: I'm only here because of #peerpressure. I'd rather focus on my own websites and have you visit. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Caesar Wirth This is something I've had in the back of my head for a while; I'm glad other people thinking the same thing. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Although, it is ironic that I'm sharing it through social media. Daniel Fernández Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Eλf Sternberg While I agree with most of this, let me add: "Linux is only free if your time is worthless." matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Joe Botha Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Hacker News 50 Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… (bit.ly/2GsosFS) Hacker News記;事;題;日;本;語;翻;訳; Personal-Website-Verseへ; matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Bharadwaj P Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… #blog- favs #feedly Hacker News 20 Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… (bit.ly/2GsosFS) Cab Mais um excelente texto sobre a importância dos sites pessoais para você e a web como um todo. ????; matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Giacomo Barbieri Open sourcing the web. ;@riccardopalombo; matthiasott.com/articles/into-… HN Front Page Into the Personal-Website-Verse L: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221568… Hacker News Into the Personal-Website-Verse : matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221568… Angsuman Chakraborty Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Hacker News Into the Personal-Website-Verse: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221568… Matthias Ott Thoughts on Writing: What They Say Matthias Ott Ideas On Writing Alis The personal web. ????;????;????;????; The power of the personal website can't be understated. I like trying many things out on my own one and it's how I learn. Nodding along to this: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Revelino ????; matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Nick Into the Personal-Website-Verse #IndieWeb matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Tixie Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Jason Garber Into the Personal-Website-Verse – matthiasott.com/articles/into-… GBO Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… @m_ott Marie Guillaumet Lettre d’amour aux sites perso, aux webrings et autres blogrolls (en anglais) : matthiasott.com/articles/into-… ????;????; Le tissage de nos propres réseaux indé sur le web a une valeur particulière, vs. les plateformes type Twitter ou Medium qui disparaîtront un jour. (Via @WalterStephanie.) HïMY SYeD "One day, Twitter & other publishing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or Medium will indeed die, like so many sites before them. Every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created & with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history" matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Wim Symons Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Thomasorus « Your content [...] is also part of your identity. It is part of who you are, what you’re thinking about, what you believe in, and what you’re up to. It is part of the story you are about to tell. It is part of the change you seek to make. » matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Zoe Chew ????;????;????;????;????; Yep, I read that one Matthias! ????; Matthias Ott Matthias Ott Hanane ❅; Thank you very much, Matthias! Matthias Ott Matthias Ott Zoe Chew ????;????;????;????;????; Matthias Ott Hey Hanane, that’s so great! I’m really glad to hear that I could help you a bit with my posts. Good luck with your site! Hanane ❅; This post and "Out there" are two of the articles that gave me the motivation to start my own website and blog! Thank you for writing them ????; Matthias Ott Matthias Ott Zoe Chew ????;????;????;????;????; Wünderbucket This is the reason I'm building Wünderbucket: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Thanks for the excellent article, @m_ott Philip Brewer Here’s a great summary of all the things I never quit using: a personal website, #RSS, blogroll, etc. Now augmented with indieweb stuff like webmention, micro.blog, etc. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Nathan W. Bingham Long live the personal website. This Saturday read brought back good memories of blogrolls and webrings. Perhaps there is a future beyond algorithms and social media. Thanks to @ChrisBowler for the recommended read. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Ste Grainer Finally got around to reading “Into the Personal-Website-Verse” by @m_ott : matthiasott.com/articles/into-… I wish everyone I knew had a personal website whether they work on the web or not. That would be way more enjoyable than following them on social media … isil Si, como yo, estáis un poco rallades con la forma malévola y robatiempos en la que se ha encasquillado internet, esto os interesará: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Ana Mora The irony of sharing this great piece on Twitter. Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott thanks to @petitebrunette matthiasott.com/articles/into-… brook shelley I think I already posted this in my newsletter, but it's a very good article on how and why to do your own web stuff matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Mαtt Thomαs Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… fluffy Keeping it personal I just read this great essay by Matthias Ott. It does a great job of summarizing the state of affairs of blogging and social media, and how we can try to escape the current orbit to get back to where the web was meant to be. ????;????;????;????; ????;????;????;????;????;????;✨; I've been enjoying Twitter a lot more since the Algorithm suddenly started making more of an effort to put me in the way of interesting conversations + people + projects, but… ????; matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Baldur Bjarnason @baldur@toot.cafe “Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer” matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Divi Den Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Eco Web Hosting "There is one alternative to social media sites and publishing platforms that has been around since the early, innocent days of the web. It is an alternative that provides immense freedom and control: The personal website." - @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… New Local Media Into the Personal-Website-Verse ... and out of the platform garbage fire ????;????;????;by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Mischa ????; ????; Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Jon Into the Personal-Website-Verse (via @Pocket) #longreads matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Ahmed Al Omran Now imagine, for a moment, an environment where a decentralized fabric of connected personal sites allows everyone to publish their own content but also enables each individual to engage in an open discussion matthiasott.com/articles/into-… bodemotion Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer wunderbarer Text über die hoffentlich baldige Rückkehr der eigenen Homepage. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Chris Aldrich Social Reading User Interface for Discovery I read quite a bit of material online. I save “bookmarks” of all of it on my personal website, sometimes with some additional notes and sometimes even with more explicit annotations. One of the things I feel like I’m missing from my browser, browser extensions, and/or social feed reader is a social layer overlay that could indicate that people in my social network(s) have read or interacted directly with ... Chuck Munson Going Indie. Step 2: Reclaiming Content matthiasott.com/articles/into-… #IndieWeb #OpenWeb Tekla Szymanski Your content is one of your most valuable assets and thus owning it is key. It gets drowned out on social media and you'll loose copyrights on some publishing platforms. Go back to a personal website, share, link and interact on your terms. via @m_ott ow.ly/Fc9s30p1kER Roel Groeneveld Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Hyperalp Der beste Artikel seit langem für alle, die etwas im Netz publizieren. Leseempfehlung. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… T❘;LM△;N Inspiring article by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… tldr;: Let’s ditch all those flawed commercial social networks and built a new one, with personal linked websites, like in the old days! ????; Is this the future? Sounds good. matt finlayson well, here is a manifesto for the indieweb matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Stéphanie Walter I was quite depressed about my personal site the last couple of weeks because I got quite some exhausting and annoying comments about it. But this article is exactly what I needed to read: "Personal-Website-Verse" matthiasott.com/articles/into-… 1/ msgWP We couldn't agree more, @m_ott. "There is one alternative to social media sites and publishing platforms that has been around since the early, innocent days of the web. It is an alternative that provides immense freedom and control: The personal website." matthiasott.com/articles/into-… ????; Mike Tannenbaum ????; Love it this ode to the personal website. “Personal websites are the backbone of the independent Web of creators. They remain a vital part of what makes the web the most remarkable and open medium to date.” Well said, @m_ott! matthiasott.com/articles/into-… SitePoint The personal website is making a comeback. @m_ott has some thoughts, and practical advice for those looking to get involved. buff.ly/2X4pePv Niklaus Gerber ∙; Go buy a Thermomix Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Kevin Kirkpatrick A love letter to personal websites. ????;????; Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Jérôme Gamez This is good: „Into the Personal-Website-Verse“ by @m_ott (via @DenseDiscovery) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Brett @ IAMTHELAB Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Evgeny Kuznetsov Exactly. Kyle Libra This is great. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… 0 Irregular Batch of Interesting Links #8 It seems that my irregular batches are becoming weekly. This week there are links to articles about how tech affects people and about humans. Looking around at social media and web in general, it is more than ever important to keep personal websites alive. Matthias Ott wrote good introduction to them. Through one of the recommended blogs in my RSS feed I came across Luis Coelho illustrations of animals. Online ... Brendan Schlagel Enjoyed this article about personal websites: as personal exploratory space; as playground for creative learning and tinkering; as community web… Making me want to implement webrings & webmentions on my own site(s)! Jacob Sam-La Rose And in the moments between things, I'm thinking about how to make best use of the web (again)... From matthiasott.com/articles/into-…: Kenjie S. Suarez The Impending Death of Facebook. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… AKA Something I've been thinking about for quite a while: why personal websites and blogs are so much better than social media in 2019: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… (h/t @dan_hill) Adebola Adeniran I couldn't agree more with this article. Thank you Oluwatobi Owolabi You're welcome Benjamin De Kosnik Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… mekalav Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Paul Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Paul I really enjoyed reading Matthias Ott’s post titled Into the Personal-Website-Verse. It’s an essay about why it’s so important to have your own space on the Web, and why IndieWeb is a great way to get there. It’s well worth the read. There are many reasons to have your own site, at your own domain, that you control. Aside from retaining effective control over your content, the risk of entrusting our ... Ralf G. Auf den Indieweb-Zug springen… Ecologia Digital "Personal websites are the backbone of the #indieWeb of creators. If we don’t pay enough attention and care about the #openweb, we might lose this valuable asset. So let us protect the Web as a source of inspiration, diversity, creativity, and community." matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Mark Dittmer Here’s my first shot at a quill-post for unused-for-almost-a-decade blog. Thanks @m_ott for the inspiration via matthiasott.com/articles/into-… (blog.markdittmer.org/?p=118) Karthik Two fantastic perspectives on the need to own your digital narrative, in a place that you can call your own. One, from @m_ott, a User Experience Designer: Into the Personal-Website-Verse bit.ly/2wlWyWZ His #longread on personal websites goes back to the 1/5 Paul McFedries “There is one alternative to social media sites and publishing platforms that has been around since the early, innocent days of the web. It is an alternative that provides immense freedom and control: The personal website.” —@m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Amber Wilson For the love of personal websites ♥️; thanks for the awesome, important post and mention @m_ott. I'm soon going to document each part of my in-progress site re-make and release lots more posts! :-) #PersonalWebsites Christian Walter ©️; @m_ott Independent UX designer, UI engineer, Speaker and **AUTHOR**. ✍;️; Brendan Dawes Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Geffrey van der Bos In reply to: Into the Personal-Website-Verse Move away from the censored social media silos. Start a social, personal website. You own all the content, all under your own domain name. How great does that even sound! Thank you, Matthias, for the inspiration of making my website just a tat more social. And of course for our short brainstorm on Twitter! Graphite A great reminder from @m_ott that there is plenty we can do as individuals to reclaim the decentralization that was once the web matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Codrops Collective #515 May 13, 2019View All Into the Personal-Website-Verse * mailgo * Fontanello * GitHub Package Registry * What's new in JavaScript Collective514 Eugene Martell Hello world! Inspired by this great post by Matthias Ott, I’m rebooting my personal website. For too long I’ve been worried about whether I had anything good to write or unique to contribute (and, honestly, what this site would look like), but as Matthias says: [D]on’t hesitate to write about little ideas and observations that might seem too small or unimportant to share. We all have our unique perspectives and even ... Geffrey van der Bos Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Colin Devroe I watched Tantek’s presentation Take Back Your Web from Beyond Tellerrand during lunch. Great presentation. From it I added Mattias Ott’s blog post and this one by Aaron Parecki to Unmark to read later. Via Jeremy Keith. Ignacio Villanueva Siempre he dicho que me gusta ser "dueño" en la medida de lo posible del contenido que creo (salvo Twitter, claro). ¿Sabéis lo que son los Web Silos? Medium es un ejemplo claro, Facebook, Twitter... ????; Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Rob King I once tried to start a webring with only people called Rob King. It was the "King Ring". It didn't really take off. Bill Bennett Matthias Ott just reminded me to check the microformat stuff was working on my billbennett.co.nz site (it wasn’t). These things are important. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Bill Bennett Also, I like the idea of bringing back webrings. Researching that will keep me out of mischief this weekend. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Bill Bennett Matthias Ott just reminded me to check the microformat stuff was working on my billbennett.co.nz site (it wasn’t). These things are important. matthiasott.com/articles/… Webrocker Take back your web - Tantek Çelik @ Beyond Tellerrand Conference, Düsseldorf 2019 Watch this. Understand this. For quite a while now I really think we are at a crucial point in the history of the web. In the weeks before this year's event, I thought back at my first visits to the Beyond Tellerrand Conference, how much it impressed me and where I was exposed to a real paradigm shift right at the start of the "responsive" thing. In the following years, the talks and general trends got ... Aditee Singhi Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… #initiatives Dave Rupert ? hooray, blogs! matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Great post by @m_ott Chris Heilmann One very personal dislike I have is articles where the scrollbar doesn't indicate the length. (Yes, this is probably an "old person of the web" thing). Take matthiasott.com/articles/into-… on a desktop computer. The scrollbar indicates it is HUUUUUUUGGEE and I didn't read it until ... Chris Heilmann "Into the Personal-Website-Verse" matthiasott.com/articles/into-… @m_ott with an empowering, detailed post how to make your personal mark on the web by owning your content. ᴅ;̲;̅;̶;̷;ᴛ;̲;̅;̶;̷;ʏ;̲;̅;̶;̷;⋰;︎; オ;ン;ガ;ク;同;様;二;十;年;周;期;型; matthiasott.com/articles/into-… chles ✍;️; par @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Stefan Judis Excellent article by @m_ott about why owning your data is important and the role your personal website plays in this. ????;????;????; matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Matt Robin Personal Websites: It's not nostalgia, but this also reminds me of previous remarks by @zeldman (unless I'm mistaken, please, correct me if I'm wrong Jeffey!) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… nuncapops Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… theAdhocracy Fantastic article an the alternative to giant corporations, tech monopolies, and bot-infested race-to-the-bottom social media: the humble, personal website. ????; Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Pinboard Popular Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Val Head Reading this made me feel equal parts guilty and inspired. Time to get that personal site up and running again! @m_ott makes a very good case for why personal web sites and the indie web are so important both for you and the community: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Pinboard Popular Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Rohan Venkat Do you guys use personal websites or blogs still? matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Darathtey Din Interesting read | Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… jérôme coupé The « retour en grâce » of the personal website. Let’s weave our little corners of the web together /via @thylo matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Г;о;н;з;о; Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Sanne Peters A good argumentation for owning and maintaining your own content and not using social media for it: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Yes, I am aware of my own hypocrisy ????; ZenphotoCMS „Into the Personal-Website-Verse“ matthiasott.com/articles/into-… https://t.co/SJQImzOlWe Malte Müller „Into the Personal-Website-Verse“ matthiasott.com/articles/into-… https://t.co/DiLSXsKP0O Mike Taylor Into the Personal-Website-Verse · A personal website is also a powerful playground to tinker with new technologies and discover your powers. @m_ott buff.ly/30ioWae HJ Chen @ YGLF Vilnius “Don’t do it like me. Do it like you.”–@m_ott on building your personal website ❤;️; #web Ann Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… smallbellows Hello world? In a moment of inspiration combined perfectly with procrastination, I have decided to start a personal web page. This will be a place for me to explore and experiment, to try stuff out, and to talk “out loud” about those experiences. I was heartily inspired by Matthias Ott’s post on the perks personal website. So far, all I’ve done is install WordPress. Something I’ve done many, many times. But ... Katherine Moss Just getting started on cambridgeport90.net. Basically a blog, and anything else I find interesting. Gift Egwuenu ✨; ⭐;️; Recommended read: Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Salvatore matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Juha Liikala Let’s. Bring. Them. Back! Hans Gerwitz Social media sucks, but that doesn't mean the web has to. Quentin Bellanger Best reading of the week! I wish people rely less on social media platforms and more on personal websites. In my experience, my personal website taught me so much. It's basically my dev playground where I can write and experiment new things. maria comas Very inspiring indeed tams sokari Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Superluchito Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… neehad Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Chris McLeod Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer Ana Rodrigues Another amazing article about personal web sites that came out this weekend. ✨; "But most importantly, having a website makes you part of an amazing community of creators, forming new friendships, new connections, and new opportunities. This is invaluable." lobste.rs bot Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… lobste.rs/s/ocyjzv/into_… #philosophy dirk döring This is a must read. And it even more fires my motivation to finish my website i started last weekend @indiewebcamp #quitslacking Andrew { building games ⚔; } (҂;◡;_◡;) ᕤ; matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Priyesh Patel Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… jackyalciné (he/him/his) Lots of nuggets of gold and strong cases for the IndieWeb in this post from Matthias Ott: matthiasott.com/articles/into-…. (v2.jacky.wtf/post/433031d8-…) Jacky Alciné Lots of nuggets of gold and strong cases for the IndieWeb in this post from Matthias Ott: https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse. Kevin Stewart Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… via @instapaper Israel Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… tokutakes Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Lobsters Into the Personal-Website-Verse via @danburzo lobste.rs/s/ocyjzv #philosophy matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Andreas Nebiker Okay @m_ott, apology for not being in DUS right now accepted Francesco Schwarz Amazing article by @m_ott, couldn’t agree more! Thanks for this! Adactio Links Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Ricardo Mendes Into the Personal-Website-Verse #Indieweb : matthiasott.com/articles/into-… HWC Brussels Into the Personal-Website-Verse #Indieweb : matthiasott.com/articles/into-… /piersis/ matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Israel Muñoz "Especialmente, pero no solo, si trabajas como independiente o freelancer, tu contenido no es solamente algo que hayas creado, sino que es parte de tu identidad. Es parte de lo que eres, lo que estás pensando, lo que crees, y lo que estás haciendo": @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Philip Brewer Why did this stop being automatic! "So if you write or put any kind of content on your site, also make sure to add an RSS feed." matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Aaron Parecki Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott Sara Soueidan This article by ;@m_ott; about the state of the Web & the importance of personal Web sites should become a must read. I wanted to quote every paragraph in it. His passion for a truly Indie Web is evident Manuel Matuzović; Oh, wow! You should read this fantastic article by @m_ott. "Personal websites are the backbone of the independent Web of creators. Even after all those years, they remain a vital part of what makes the web the most remarkable and open medium to date." Calum Ryan | calumryan.com "Whenever you stumble upon an interesting thought on another site, write about it and link to it." | An in-depth article about protecting the open web and having a personal website – Into the Personal-Website-Verse by @m_ott » (matthiasott.com/articles/into-…) (calumryan.com/note/2677) Calum Ryan "Whenever you stumble upon an interesting thought on another site, write about it and link to it." | An in-depth article about protecting the open web and having a personal website – Into the Personal-Website-Verse by @m_ott » (https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse) Oliver Schöndorfer “If we would make the conscious decision to find better ways to connect our personal sites and to enable more social interaction again, … we could … influence the development of Web technologies into this direction.” Thanks for this article, @m_ott Max Böck Join the indieweb today and start publishing on your own site. We can bring back the web we had. #LetsFixThis midzer Think global, write personal https://jgregorymcverry.com Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Greg McVerry Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer #IndieWeb #why Andreas Spiegler Private Blogs <3 Max Böck Join the indieweb today and start publishing on your own site. We can bring back the web we had. #LetsFixThis Tom Tinkerson A love letter to your personal publishing space aka your own web site. Great read (once again) by ;@m_ott; Sebastian Greger 12 May 2019 | 02:00 The week in quotes (2019W19) Vicky Boykis advocates for “a move to leisure as a modus operandi”: The ability to have room for leisure has always also been an upper-class pursuit. Just ask anyone at Downton Abbey. What did people do there all day? Breakfast, chat, read, take walks, and by then it was time for dinner on large, quiet estates. Today, the true signal of privilege and choice means not only the ability to block out physical ... fluffy 26 June 2019 | 06:22 Keeping it personal I just read this great essay by Matthias Ott. It does a great job of summarizing the state of affairs of blogging and social media, and how we can try to escape the current orbit to get back to where the web was meant to be. I especially like the bit about “Don’t do it like me. Do it like you.” Because that is exactly why I’ve been building Publ the way I have; I have specific goals in mind for how I ... Stefan Grund 6 July 2019 | 02:00 Into the Personal-Website-Verse If we would make the conscious decision to find better ways to connect our personal sites and to enable more social interaction again, and if we would then persistently work on this idea, then we could, bit by bit, influence the development of Web technologies into this direction. What we would end up with is not only a bunch of personal websites but a whole interconnected personal-website-verse. Matthias hält ... Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast and accessibility specialist from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works on accessibility standards for the Dutch government (views his own) and is a participant in the Open UI Community G 18 May 2021 | 00:00 150 This blog has now reached the somewhat random milestone of 150 posts. When I asked around what post #150 should be about, the Twitterverse said “blogging”. Well, OK! Fun fact, this isn’t my first blog: from 2008 to 2014, I had a travel blog, where I tried to write funny posts about my trips abroad for family and friends. This blog is different as I try to, ahem, add “something” to the field of web ... Matthias Ott 12 November 2022 | 11:51 @alex86 Great! Let me – all of us, actually – know when you have an RSS feed! 🤗 Barijaona Ramaholimihaso 12 November 2022 | 13:37 @endocrine_witch @matthiasott I will definitely publish more on mine ! Victoria Elliott 12 November 2022 | 13:51 @matthiasott People go for the happy path. Ease of use has undoubtedly been a significant contributor to Twitter’s success. The shadow side of this is that alternatives are less appealing and so therefore the options in real-terms are limited. You could even go as far as saying that effective design can be an enemy of the good due to creating a monopoly effect. It’s hard to find a meaningful alternative to ... Matthias Ott 12 November 2022 | 15:44 @vce_elliott Yes, I fully agree! I remember a vivid discussion about this at one of the first IndieWebCamps I attended. There is a barrier to owning your content and publication platforms are trying to make it as easy as possible to publish inside their walled gardens and to give us immediate gratification for it, so that it is convenient to just write and hit publish there. On the other hand: it is as easy as ... Matthias Ott 12 November 2022 | 15:45 @vce_elliott Just as an example, you could start on wordpress.com and later move on to your own server. Some hosters also offer one-click installations of CMSes etc. And I still believe that over time more good design will flow into the alternatives so that they eventually are getting easier to use. Matthias Ott 12 November 2022 | 15:46 @vce_elliott In a perfect world, there would be a service where you can get your own little corner on the Web with a quick installation of everything, your data stored in a format that is easy to exchange or convert if you ever want to change your CMS/SSG, and a website that has already a best-of of IndieWeb technology built in, like Webmentions or syndication to different platforms. Sandy McAfee 🐟 22 November 2022 | 09:37 @vce_elliott @matthiasott can you please recommend an “idiot’s guide” or similar that covers the basics of eg how to set up and run a personal mastodon instance, or a personal website for blogging and RSS even? 40 years ago I enjoyed programming with BBC Basic but I haven’t done any since. You’ve convinced me that this is worth experimenting with but the jargon baffles me. Many thanks 😊 Matthias Ott 12 November 2022 | 20:35 @seeingwithsound No, not at all! You can decide for yourself how much and what you want to use your own site for. Some people try to do almost everything via their site and actually also write replies there, like @adactio. Some publish blog posts on their site, share the links, and collect reactions via Webmentions. Or you could also start a microblogging section on your site and syndicate the posts into ... KWolf 12 November 2022 | 23:19 @muon @matthiasott Social media are not valid to preseve knowlede, know how or culture. They are as spoken words: They should be recognized and perhaps led to catalise thougts to be fixed in books or magazines, hypotheses is to be scientifically verified, opinions to be further developed or to be rejected or forgotten. Daniel Mclaughlan 13 November 2022 | 12:30 @matthiasott I’m feeling that inclination to write again. However, I don’t have the time or energy for traditional self-hosting. Revisiting Eleventy and Netlify again as a nice way to spin something up and write posts in Markdown. For ages, I thought the lack of user friendly privacy-focused comments on static sites was a deal breaker. However, I’m realising the personal web doesn’t need a single solution: Matthias Ott 13 November 2022 | 12:33 @straydogstrut That’s only unfortunate if you don’t enjoy tinkering with the technical stuff 😉 It your place, so if you tinker more than you write and it gives you joy, it’s still worthwhile, I guess? But I also struggle with this. And constantly write about it… 🫣 e.g. https://matthiasott.com/notes/just-put-stuff-out-there Just Put Stuff Out There · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer Daniel Mclaughlan 13 November 2022 | 12:40 @matthiasott Thanks, another nice read😊 Every so often when I was blogging regularly, I would experience an identity crisis of what the blog should be about. I’d get so wrapped in knots deciding what to write about/or not that I’d lose momentum. Starting again is a fresh start for new interests but there are also interests I don’t want to leave behind. Chris Coyier’s site that you linked to is a great ... Matthias Ott 15 November 2022 | 08:00 @fireynis And @getkirby 🖤 and @eleventy 🎈 Dr Footleg (he/him) 15 November 2022 | 18:00 @kali @matthiasott Have you checked the internet archive or wayback machine sites for an archive of his blog? Kali 15 November 2022 | 20:17 @drfootleg @matthiasott unfortunately, yes. waybackmachine had no archives of it :( Kali 16 November 2022 | 05:03 @matthiasott @drfootleg Hey @Raspberry_Pi does anyone over there have copies of Andy Baker’s blog from 2013-2015? I remember following it years ago but it might just be lost to time Collector Of Dreams 24 November 2022 | 11:27 @vce_elliott @matthiasott i has a WordPress website, even more lonely than my rss, and It was very beautiful, It was about my services of caring pets but changed into something further. I Also helped at a very large blog in several languages run by someone in Italy about #veganfood but después being so Big and nice, its almost dead. As we have fee time a dont share things unless we believe, there IS someone on ... Matthias Ott 13 December 2022 | 14:06 @AndySocial Yes – have fun, Gary! 🤗 Hidde 23 June 2023 | 13:26 @patrick_h_lauke @matthiasott I wish we could start some kind of indieweb fund that keeps paying the bills in case we go. or is this something to put in one's own will? Patrick H. Lauke 23 June 2023 | 13:27 @hdv @matthiasott "on my death, please upload all my digital assets to archive.org" Matthias Ott 23 June 2023 | 13:44 @patrick_h_lauke @hdv “To read uncle Mats articles, please make sure Bluetooth is turned on, hold your mobile device close to the gravestone, and tap ‘Progressive Web Gravestone’ in the list of available Bluetooth devices.” Jens Grochtdreis 23 June 2023 | 13:30 @hdv @patrick_h_lauke @matthiasott Why should our musings on twitter or our private website be interesting and important enough to be preserved for future generations? Do we really feel so important? Would we like to read all tiwtter from around 40 AC from ancient rome, if it would have existed? Wouldn't some accounts be enough? Hidde 23 June 2023 | 13:32 @jensgro @patrick_h_lauke @matthiasott tbh for me it's only blog posts I care about, if anything Patrick H. Lauke 23 June 2023 | 13:32 @jensgro @hdv @matthiasott "Would we like to read all tiwtter from around 40 AC from ancient rome" if the data is searchable, that could be of interest. "Wouldn't some accounts be enough?" who decides what/who is worth preserving? James Edwards 23 June 2023 | 13:41 @patrick_h_lauke @jensgro @hdv @matthiasott I would like to be able to read that yeah. Day to day accounts of ordinary people are of huge historical value Hidde 23 June 2023 | 13:35 @patrick_h_lauke @jensgro @matthiasott would say only presidents/prime ministers etc but then that means Trump ans May too 🥱 Patrick H. Lauke 23 June 2023 | 13:36 @hdv @jensgro @matthiasott they're so far removed from the experiences of "regular" people though...you'll basically just get the sanitised "official record" of what happened/what the mood was Jens Grochtdreis 23 June 2023 | 14:02 @hdv @patrick_h_lauke @matthiasott Trump and May would be perfect examples why mankind descends from the ape and why mankind is not per se intelligent 🙂 qed ... Jens Grochtdreis 23 June 2023 | 15:48 @siblingpastry @patrick_h_lauke @hdv @matthiasott I would like to read some, yeah. But not from millions 🙂 Matthias Ott 2 July 2023 | 09:08 @j9t Yes! 👏🤗 Matthias Ott 2 July 2023 | 09:35 @poemproducer You mean because not everyone can afford the monthly costs of running their own site? Or because there is also a bit of knowledge required? That is true and those barriers definitely need to be reduced/removed. On the other hand, the “return on investment” for a personal site can be really high! For the price of one pack of cigarettes (in DE), you get a personal playground on which you can ... James Scholes 7 November 2023 | 01:00 @miki @matthiasott Personal websites also require some semblance of design and development to stand out, and being able to do those tasks is relative privilege. I'd love to lovingly craft my own site but at the same time I'm blind, work in accessibility, and cannot independently verify that it meets my own high visual accessibility standards. If I also hate walled gardens, it's easier to just not write anything. Watson 2 July 2024 | 21:39 Why a personal site rather than social media presence? Kev Quirk answered the question in his blog( https://kevquirk.com/blog/why-have-a-personal-site-instead-of-social-media ) and I wanted to add my two cents on top. It’s a topic close to my heart as a website owner and personal web advocate. For Kev, the main reason to have a personal site is ownership. When you are only using social sites, you are completely relying on their decisions and whims. A site might go ... Ana Rodrigues 4 May 2025 | 15:39 May bookmarks This month went by really quickly! It must have been the two bank holidays. And it was a busy month: I did three talks, helped organise a meet-up, attended some meet-ups too, work as usual and life! But I will explore this on another post sometime in the future. For now, this month's bookmarks. Bookmarks from May Non-tech articles 4 Reasons a Hiring Manager Doesn’t Extend a Job Offer - by Leslie Yang Sweden by ... 435 Reposts Trit’ Aeneas????;????; McSinyx Free Pietje kalvn Matt Marcha Anri ✊; Minami-o le sabreur Jean-Pierre Morfin Cholat enthraxxx Bastian Venthur Kisdra????; jmoupah Schrod@framapiaf.org dblanchet@mamot.fr Geob-o-matic ????;DaveNull????; ☣;️;pResident Evil☣; _guyevans Martin Hoffmann Eriatolc Romain S. sknob MutoKenji@tutut.delire.party Benoît HERVIER Henrik Kramselund - kramse Stéphane Bortzmeyer Nicolas Roelandt, en grève Cyril Brulebois François Best Nathan Lövsund ????; ????; zérémie sebsauvage Corentin Thual Mark Dyck Marsha Ess Bernard Nijenhuis Nicolas Hoizey Bob Monsour webetcaetera Eana Hufwe Anith ✦; Dan Phil ????; Diana Tosca Tony Perez sim Shawn Hooper (he/him) samcox08 Levi McGranahan Andrew Claremont Puxley ????;????;????; Ondine Bruch Sharon Telfer Helen South (she/her) Amanda Carson Gerhardf Devin Prater Jan Jan Voth Bec Johnson Paul Thomsen Daniel Mclaughlan Barbara McVeigh WYSIWYG Federico Simonetti ????; xenos ????;????;????;????; rsoika@fosstodon.org Renato Regli JMSWAG Markus Ackermann cree Kaffeehaussitzer @pineywoozle Siva Al jenshoffmann Andreas Theodorou Yung-Yu Chen Kan-Ru Chen ????; txwikinger Jeff Kirvin ijliao Ekkehard von Weiher HRH ginsterbusch Julien A. 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Jamie Tanna Why should you blog? A writeup of my talk at DDD East Midlands around why you should start blogging.
Е;в;г;е;н;и;й; К;у;з;н;е;ц;о;в; Е;в;г;е;н;и;й; К;у;з;н;е;ц;о;в; Е;в;г;е;н;и;й; К;у;з;н;е;ц;о;в; (M) 1 и;ю;н;я; 2019 https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse Exactly. Oб;н;о Exactly.
@condor @condor Je crois que ce qui me plaît le plus dans cette définition d'Internet, c'est qu'elle correspond parfaitement à l'idée de déjà-là communiste décrite par Friot
@sia @sia Thanks! Yes, I was thinking the same about whether people want their avatars to be shown. I mean, if someone adds microformats with an h-card to their site and maybe even Webmentions, one could argue that displaying their avatar next to a Webmention might be totally fine for them. But if they like something on social media, that’s a whole different story, because they have no idea that their image will be ...
Matthias Ott Still, I need to improve how Webmentions are displayed on my site… 🤔 What are your favorite implementations?
@matthiasott @matthiasott here's an example post with all three types of webmentions. I also lazy load but I think the images were originally from Twitter so I might have been using the smaller version's URL. https://sia.codes/posts/architecting-data-in-eleventy/ Architecting data in Eleventy
Steven Woodson Joining the IndieWeb with Webmentions and Microformats In This Article Resources IndieWeb & Personal Blogging Tutorials & How-tos Documentation & Services Great Examples I’ve Referenced Work in Progress I’ve finally spent some time setting up Webmentions and adding some Microformats formatting to this site! ...
Matthias Ott I wrote this three years ago: “One day, Twitter and other publishing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or Medium will indeed die, like so many sites before them. And every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created and with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history.” Own your content. Publish on your own site. https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse Into ...
Andreas Spiegler 2 July 2023 | 11:10 @matthiasott gerade wieder gebloggt. Fühlt sich richtig an, alles an einem eigenen Ort zu haben :)
Mikołaj Hołysz 7 November 2023 | 00:50 @matthiasott This argument makes very little sense to me. Personal websites require even more care and die even more quickly, particularly when something bad happens to the owner. Not everybody has techies in the family and knows how to set up things like domain and server transfers on death from a legal perspective. A Medium account is for forever, or until the service goes down.
Jules 🍺 2 July 2023 | 09:18 @matthiasott thinking about it, this is the first technology that even has the slightest potential of recording what large numbers of people thought, the rest of history has only ever been what the scribes wrote or publishers printed and then only what survived the fires etc.
Jens Oliver Meiert 2 July 2023 | 09:07 @matthiasott,—may I—, and this has countless advantages https://meiert.com/en/blog/run-your-own-website/ How Running Your Own Website Is Much Better for You Than You Think · Jens Oliver Meiert
Patrick H. Lauke 23 June 2023 | 12:46 @matthiasott ...until you die and payments for your own domain/hosting lapse, and then that content too disappears forever as well...
Gary Bunker :verified: 13 December 2022 | 14:03 @matthiasott I've definitely become re-energized to update my site (25+ years old) in recent months. I can easily make backups of that information, and keep them on a thumbdrive if need be.
Collector Of Dreams 24 November 2022 | 11:21 @matthiasott you are right but i Also like to let go...It is too much effort for my scarce energies, on the other side, i enjoy more learning from others than sharing my #wisdom that has to do with #oneirology. In fact when i did share about It, not much interest was raised since people #dream and #forget their dreams and have no idea about the feeling of having so #SolidDreams that they get the same status as ...
Steven Bodzin 16 November 2022 | 02:14 @matthiasott well yeah but your own site dies too, unless you maintain it. There is no substitute for paper
Kali 15 November 2022 | 17:15 @matthiasott my only issue with this idea is that everything will come to an end eventually. I used to follow a guy who ran a #raspberrypi drone blog half a decade ago but since his passing, I can’t find any records of his build log anymore. My only guess as to what happened is that his family stopped paying for hosting and the site came down too. I wish there were records left of him outside of my memory :( ...
Chris Pirillo 15 November 2022 | 07:52 @matthiasott ...there's always a trade-off. For some of us early online publishers, it was impossible to stem the tide / rise of social media and centralized platforms. But, as they say, the pendulum swings both ways. What's old is new again.
fireynis 15 November 2022 | 07:50 @matthiasott I would agree and possibly go one further and make sure you publish your content in a transferable format, something like markdown over a WordPress site that stores it in a proprietary way in a DB. Tools like #hugo and #statamic work for this! hugo statamic
ag 15 November 2022 | 06:57 @matthiasott I find POSSE - Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere - a pragmatic balance. https://indieweb.org/POSSE POSSE
Mikołaj Hołysz 13 November 2022 | 15:25 @arush @matthiasott Sites die too, though, and it’s likely that Joe Shmoe’s random little website will literally die when he does. Same with fediverse instances. A commercial service with a well-paid crew managing it has a much better chance of survival than a $5 Linode VPS managed by one person. If you host your own site, you have to consider what happens when you die, teach your kids / siblinks / parents to ...
Russ 13 November 2022 | 14:45 @matthiasott I just borrowed a stack of books from the Deming Alliance. Inside many was an acknowledgment of who gifted the book. I found it beautiful. For example
Daniel Mclaughlan 13 November 2022 | 12:23 @matthiasott Great article, thanks for sharing. I used to blog regularly and found a lovely community. We are still in contact on other platforms but I miss that space. I definitely had a blogroll🥰 Nowadays I want the convenience of a hosted platform like Wordpress dot com but the flexibility to explore the nuts and bolts. Unfortunately I have a tendency to get easily lost in the implementation that I forget ...
Yoav Bergner 13 November 2022 | 01:24 @matthiasott I agree with this sentiment, but the longevity of personally controlled digital content is also questionable. We saw this migrating from floppy disk storage. Maybe it’s okay if we just wipe the slate clean every few years.
Mathieu 13 November 2022 | 01:26 @matthiasott this is starting to grow on me. Already have the domain, just need to take the plunge...
Matthias Ott 13 November 2022 | 01:41 @mathieuhuot …do it! 😁 It’s a lot of fun to build your site. Try to make it as easy and convenient for yourself to publish. And if it’s “only” an occasional thought, a little observation, or something you learned, that’s just fine. Enjoy making stuff. Good luck! 🤗 And in case you’re not sure about what to use: both @eleventy and @getkirby are fantastic. I use CraftCMS for my site and enjoy it ...
Hikarii 12 November 2022 | 20:46 @matthiasott Realizing the day fast approaching as deviantart announced AI art generator and had everyone initially opt in. I always knew it but wasn't proactive enough. Sucks.
a_regular-pear 12 November 2022 | 20:54 @matthiasott Outstanding article! Have been thinking about creating a website recently too. The problem is that unlike social media you have to buy a domain and host your website. For hosting I could just use a spare raspberry pi but I don't have a domain, do you perhaps have any solutions?
Sebastian Peitsch 12 November 2022 | 19:30 @matthiasott das ist ne nette Prämisse mit dem kleinen Problem dass ich gerade erst wieder ne Abmahnung bekommen habe für meine Seite weil ich Google Schriften eingebunden habe...
Matthias Ott 12 November 2022 | 19:43 @speitsch Oh, das ist Mist. 😔 Ist ja nicht per se ein Problem einer eigenen Website, trotzdem ärgerlich. Gegen den Anwalt wurde inzwischen soweit ich weiß Anzeige erstattet. War ja eine offensichtliche Abmahn-Masche. Ist einer Freundin auch mit ihrer Seite passiert (Webflow). Ihr Anwalt hat ihr geraten keinesfalls zu zahlen. Aber schon bescheuert genug, dass man zumindest auf sowas reagieren muss und Ärger ...
Sebastian Peitsch 12 November 2022 | 19:44 @matthiasott Danke. Ich reagiere da gar nicht drauf. Ist aber schon die dritte die ich bekommen habe wegen solcher Spaßbären die meinen sie könnten das Recht ausnutzen.
The vOICe vision BCI 😎🧠 12 November 2022 | 17:11 @matthiasott Does this assume that you will live longer than platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Medium?
Roman Lutz 12 November 2022 | 17:07 @matthiasott … or at least publish also to your own site so it gets preserved when the networks go up in flames. I’m currently wondering what to do (and whether to do) something about my tweets. Not that there’s so much value in them, but I feel like there are a bunch of things I would like to keep. If only to go back ten years later and say “I told you so!” But that would require the timestamps to stay ...
Alex Wykoff 12 November 2022 | 16:08 @matthiasott Austin Kleon would agree. Own your turf https://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/37863874092 (The irony of him posting this on tumblr back then is not lost on me.) Own your turf
muon 12 November 2022 | 15:54 @matthiasott I have never perceived twitter as more than a transient feed. Finding older content from other people is nearly impossible (at least I wasn't very successful in that regard).
JP 12 November 2022 | 14:49 @matthiasott Your own site isn't going to live forever either though. It will disappear as soon as you stop paying your provider, for whatever reason. Just saying.
GeekGyrl 12 November 2022 | 14:37 @matthiasott This is why I run my own website/blog and have done so for about 25 years. Folks used to get so confused because it my web address wasn’t pointing to MySpace or LiveJournal back in the day.
Victoria Elliott 12 November 2022 | 13:41 @matthiasott whilst I agree with the principle of owning your own content; social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter provide an almost universal ease of use which alternatives struggle to compete with. This then leads to an inequality between those who do and do not have the inclination, confidence, or skills to master a new platform which isn’t intuitive to use (such as Mastodon or having your own website).
Iris Thiele Isip Tan MD, MSc 12 November 2022 | 13:31 @matthiasott was just thinking about this the other day, that I should publish more on my website.
Alexander Lehner, CPACC 12 November 2022 | 11:45 @matthiasott Great article! I started my own web dev blog early this year and love experimenting with it. Need to implement Webmentions and RSS real soon. Thanks for the inspiration 🙌 😊
Andreas 12 November 2022 | 10:38 @matthiasott one way is #obsidian +obsidian publish or free opensource alternative like pubsidian, flowershow.app, obsidian mkdocs, perlite.... obsidian
Michael Marek 12 November 2022 | 10:35 @matthiasott Sauber ! Und ich bin so dreist, hier einen von mir verfassten Artikel aus 2018 und auf deutsch zu verlinken: https://michaelmarek.ghost.io/social-media-is-a-mental-prison/ Social Media is a mental prison
Astrid Günther IndieWeb The IndieWeb[^indieweb.org/] is about taking control of your content, sharing your thoughts and ideas in one place and then spreading them on other social platforms. What if a social network becomes so that you don't feel comfortable there anymore? Or it gets shut down altogether? In that case, what happens to all your posts? In my opinion, your digital identity should belong to you and not to a commercial ...
@matthiasott @helgztech @matthiasott After living through several more or less spectacular Board crashes, I finally accepted, that all the time and work put into the discussions are short living. But then, I didn't write anything worth being saved for ages. 😉 Internet is not much sustainable than talking to someone in person.
@phil @matthiasott So true! Coincidentally, @phil and I just had a conversation about this regarding SaaS in general: https://floss.social/@janriemer/109336793708971941 Jan (@janriemer@floss.social)
K+M ✊;????;????; One day, Twitter and other publishing platforms like Facebook, Instagram (…) will indeed die, like so many sites before them. And every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created and with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
@JP30567 @helgztech @JP30567 Yes, that’s a real problem. And that’s why nobody says that it’s mutually exclusive. You can always post copies of your posts into silos and hope that they outlive you and your kids. 😜 But preserving your content and your URLs after your passing is indeed an unsolved problem we don’t talk about enough. Still all that doesn’t make it less compelling to keep my work and content on ...
@matthiasott @JP30567 @matthiasott this. I've seen amazing resources become defunct when family had no interest in archiving a loved one's site.
@JP30567 @helgztech @JP30567 I ping the Internet Archive every time I publish a post. But that only goes so far. Any ideas on what we could do on top of that?
@matthiasott @matthiasott Dear Matthias. Thank you for reminding me. I remember reading your article back then. It felt like a welcome reinforcement to owning my own blog and that the blogging (and web-feed) community is still out there. I liked it then and I appreciate it now. So please feel warmly greeted my fellow blogging friend. 😘
@matthiasott @matthiasott yup I just gave similar advice: Advice on building your own ecosystem https://katecarruthers.com/2022/11/07/building-your-ecosystem/ Advice on building your own ecosystem
@Tzipi @Tzipi You can – and should – get an archive of your Twitter data. That can be done via the settings. And there are a few solutions out there that let you backup tweets more regularly. I use a tool on my site (https://matthiasott.com/tweets/) called “Tweet Nest”, but unfortunately it isn’t maintained anymore. Tweets by @m_ott
@matthiasott @matthiasott To my knowledge, there are a few #tools (and I believe & hope there will be more & better ones) that allow us to save at least some of the #content we have provided on #Twitter. As for me, Twitter has despotically locked/suspended some of my stuff/accounts, falling for reporting attacks, I believe, and I'm not sure how to "safely" save my #data w/o risking to lose it all. In my opinion, Twitter is ...
@matthiasott @matthiasott You are absolutely right. When the public "lost" (gave away) the #WWW to corporate power years (actually decades) ago I went for a long (…) break using it as a tool – until a year ago, when I discovered how (even more) limited "free" speech is IRL; back then, I felt compelled to start using #Twitter and in a way I do regret it but on the other hand I learnt some lessons, accumulated some ...
@vce_elliott @matthiasott @vce_elliott Yeah I've run my own sites for years, but it can cost money & upkeep that make it inaccessible to most, even w/1-click installers. WordPress.com is a good compromise since you can always export & transfer your site if you want or if the service discontinues. The only alternatives in the works that I can see might be govt-provided Solid Pods (data stores) https://solidcommunity.be/ or ...
Jens Comiotto-Mayer “Twitter and other platforms […] will die, like so many sites before them. And every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created and with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history.” Own your content. Publish on your own site. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Tobias Hartmann – hamato.tez/.eth ????; In doubt, ask professionals like @m_ott and me and for further reading check out matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Evgeny Kuznetsov Evgeny Kuznetsov Evgeny Kuznetsov (M) June 1, 2019 https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse Exactly. Updated on Exactly.
Zach Leatherman It’s that time again to share everyone’s (*my) favorite blog post: the transformative and empowering Into The Personal Website Verse by @m_ott. Featuring everyone’s (*my) all time favorite quote: “Don’t do it like me. Do it like you” matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Ajmal Afif I have the same "Notes" section like yours (probably from the likes of you and others). Agree on one of the best decisions made.
Juhis Having your own website and blog is such a great way to share, practice, experiment - and stay in control of your own content. And it can have much longer tail than in the "if you missed it, you won't see it" hyperspeed social media.
Sara Soueidan What Matthias said. Write on your own blogs, syndicate elsewhere. Own your content! There's nothing like it.
Sharmarke Hujale I became more determined to invest time in my personal website after reading the article Into the Personal-Website-Verse, written by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Matthias Ott For example, learning about some idea, concept, or technology because you have to write about it, just getting stuff out of your head, documenting your thoughts in an archive (log 😜), or also helping just a few random strangers (or friends!) who thought your post was useful.
Matthias Ott Yes, :D Besides the learning argument, I think there is no other way to get started with most things you do. I think Seth Godin said that it was the same with the young Bob Dylan or The Beatles: Why even bother playing in half-empty nightclubs in front of a few drunk people?
patrick h. lauke (lazarus) #toryScum "Big Dog" not "success", more "why do i even bother shouting into the void where nobody sees it?"
Matthias Ott Yes, if you measure “success” by the amount of readers/visits/likes then there is little point publishing stuff nobody sees – at first. But I’ve also experienced that I got a lot (more?) value out of less “successful” posts, as well:
Matthias Ott Bonsoir Aurelie ! Glad you liked the article—thanks! You’re right. Not everyone can or wants to pay for hosting. You could get started with a “free” option like putting your site on @glitch, GitHub Pages, WordPress.com, Netlify, or an open source project like @Ghost.
Aurelie Touchard Hello Matthias. I think everybody doesn't want to pay for hosting a website. Everywhere we depends from something, like Github, WordPress, or somewhere else you mentioned. These are some kind of community too. What is your opinion about it? Thanks for you interesting article! 🙂
patrick h. lauke (lazarus) #toryScum "Big Dog" only permanent as long as you pay for hosting, renew your domain name, etc... but sure also, there's often little point publishing content to your own site if nobody knows about it. so you need some other platform where everybody else is to be able to advertise it...
Michael Reyes I'd argue that the personal website is your biggest asset in today's world of social media feeds and noisy advertising. It's a resume for your most creative pursuits and insights. @m_ott wrote this article about the importance of having one yourself. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Adrian Sandu I was browsing my bookmarks and I ran into this older article by @m_ott on the topic of personal websites. If you are interested in creating content, I highly recommend you read it. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
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Max Antonucci Few things give me the same sense of joy and accomplishment as having my own website, where I can put whatever the hell I want in whatever style I want.
erin malone, mfa (she/her) That is so sad. I am running up against the acquisition erasure as I am digging into stories and work from women in the field. So much is just gone. I expect we will see this with personal archiving too as media evolves & files disappear. I miss the shoebox of stuff.
Larry Cornett I worry about that. We need some sort of easy archival solution that's under our control
Andrew (Storytelling + Scripting) Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Frank Meeuwsen Maak je eigen moederschip Natuurlijk is het niet tof voor al die Facebook medewerkers die zich nu het schompes werken om weer alles aan de praat te krijgen. Maar wist je dat er mogelijkheden zijn om buiten die grote tech-bedrijven om in contact te blijven met je vrienden en familie? Met een eigen domeinnaam, wat schijfruimte op het web en een handig blogsysteem kom je al een heel eind. Minder afhankelijk van grote techbedrijven die té ...
Haruki Nakagawa First thing that came to mind when I saw all the Facebook products were down at the same time:
Larry Cornett I remember Microsoft wiping out every trace of a startup that I worked with (after the acquisition) It was as if they never existed. I found one reference to it deep in someone's personal career story on their site
Haruki Nakagawa Can't. I'm busy putting all my energy in manifesting the reality where it just never comes back.
erin malone, mfa (she/her) As a researcher hunting for old content from the 90's and 2000's the only stuff that is stable and findable via wayback machine are blogs, personal sites and non-flash stuff. We lost a lot when everything migrated to big companies.
Radical Web Design Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott. Why it is necessary to rebuild our personal homepages, and relearn to inhabit them. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Nils Müller #IdeeUmSieben Wir müssen uns nicht den großen sozialen Netzwerken ausliefern. Wir können auch einfach immer noch persönliche Webseiten im klassischen Stil gestalten und RSS-Feeds nutzen. Und es werden wieder mehr. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Tah Tor More and more people are rediscovering their personal websites as an alternative to social media that provides more control and freedom of expression. Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Mathias Maelle Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… #Personal-website-verse
Bix As idealistic as this vision of the Web might seem these days, it isn’t that far out of reach. Much of what’s needed, especially the publishing part, is already there. It’s also not as if our sites weren’t already connected in one way or another. Yet much of the discussions and establishment of connections, of that social glue that holds our community together – besides community events in real life, of ...
Bix “With Webmention,” writes Aaron Parecki, “we’re explicitly focusing on enabling the kind of rich interactions people do on social media instead.” According to the webmention draft, such an interaction “can be an RSVP to an event, an indication that someone ‘likes’ another post, a ‘bookmark’ of another post, and many others”. Had I my druthers, the indieweb would pull away from likes and move ...
Carl Likes Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… via @instapaper
JoyMedia Do you ever think about what will happen to all that you upload? Someday it will be for not. Ott's got it right. Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Mike Solomon????; It’s 2020. What’s your excuse for not publishing your own blog or website? This post by @m_ott is a must-read ????;
Mike Solomon????; It’s 2020. What’s your excuse for not publishing your own blog or website? This post by @m_ott is a must-read ????;
Larry Vincent Love this piece by ;@m_ott; on the call for the return of personal websites. I’m not just feeling nostalgic for the days of blogrolls and web rings, but longing for a return to creating and expressing instead of the social media slop we’re in now. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
HsiangHui Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer #web #decentralization matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Matthias Ott ????; You’re welcome, Thomas! And thanks for letting me know you liked the post. That it helped clarify your thoughts means a lot to me. :) Have a nice weekend!
Thomas Wilson I read this last week, it’s really well put and helped clarify some of the things I’ve been thinking myself. Thanks for writing it :)
Nicholas A Came across this cool piece again - part ode, part insight into what makes for a compelling personal web site in this day where the gears of the web seem tuned around anything but that: matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Universe "It is an alternative that provides immense freedom and control: The personal website. It’s a place to write, create, and share whatever you like, without the need to ask for anyone’s permission." — @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Jean-Loup Adde Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… I really need to give more love to my personal web site/bubble.
Arjan Zuidhof Waarom het zo belangrijk is je eigen stek op het web te hebben als je eigen content je lief is >>> matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Igor Kulman Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
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Hacker News 200 Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221568…)
Richard Eskins Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer. A MUST READ for the last cohort of our Web Development students. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Hn150 Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221568…)
Josh Katzenmeyer Why the personal website is the past, present, and future. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Francesco Napoletano Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Joshua Gilless Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Having a personal website is great for so many reasons explored in the above blog post. You can try out all kinds of new things and get some experience throwing things you build out into the ether.
M157q News RSS Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019) matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Article URL: https://t.co/KDekoufmfM Comments URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221568… Points: 100 # Comments: 90
Jeremiah Lee I agree with everything in this and only add: put a Web Monetization tag on your content and subscribe to @Coil to support your peers doing the same.
Matthew Graybosch I'm gonna level with you all: I'm only here because of #peerpressure. I'd rather focus on my own websites and have you visit. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Caesar Wirth This is something I've had in the back of my head for a while; I'm glad other people thinking the same thing. matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Although, it is ironic that I'm sharing it through social media.
Eλf Sternberg While I agree with most of this, let me add: "Linux is only free if your time is worthless." matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Cab Mais um excelente texto sobre a importância dos sites pessoais para você e a web como um todo. ????; matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
HN Front Page Into the Personal-Website-Verse L: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221568…
Hacker News Into the Personal-Website-Verse : matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221568…
Hacker News Into the Personal-Website-Verse: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221568…
????;????;????;????; The power of the personal website can't be understated. I like trying many things out on my own one and it's how I learn. Nodding along to this: matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
GBO Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… @m_ott
Marie Guillaumet Lettre d’amour aux sites perso, aux webrings et autres blogrolls (en anglais) : matthiasott.com/articles/into-… ????;????; Le tissage de nos propres réseaux indé sur le web a une valeur particulière, vs. les plateformes type Twitter ou Medium qui disparaîtront un jour. (Via @WalterStephanie.)
HïMY SYeD "One day, Twitter & other publishing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or Medium will indeed die, like so many sites before them. Every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created & with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history" matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Thomasorus « Your content [...] is also part of your identity. It is part of who you are, what you’re thinking about, what you believe in, and what you’re up to. It is part of the story you are about to tell. It is part of the change you seek to make. » matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Hanane ❅; Thank you very much, Matthias! Matthias Ott Matthias Ott Zoe Chew ????;????;????;????;????;
Matthias Ott Hey Hanane, that’s so great! I’m really glad to hear that I could help you a bit with my posts. Good luck with your site!
Hanane ❅; This post and "Out there" are two of the articles that gave me the motivation to start my own website and blog! Thank you for writing them ????; Matthias Ott Matthias Ott Zoe Chew ????;????;????;????;????;
Wünderbucket This is the reason I'm building Wünderbucket: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Thanks for the excellent article, @m_ott
Philip Brewer Here’s a great summary of all the things I never quit using: a personal website, #RSS, blogroll, etc. Now augmented with indieweb stuff like webmention, micro.blog, etc. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Nathan W. Bingham Long live the personal website. This Saturday read brought back good memories of blogrolls and webrings. Perhaps there is a future beyond algorithms and social media. Thanks to @ChrisBowler for the recommended read. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Ste Grainer Finally got around to reading “Into the Personal-Website-Verse” by @m_ott : matthiasott.com/articles/into-… I wish everyone I knew had a personal website whether they work on the web or not. That would be way more enjoyable than following them on social media …
isil Si, como yo, estáis un poco rallades con la forma malévola y robatiempos en la que se ha encasquillado internet, esto os interesará: matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Ana Mora The irony of sharing this great piece on Twitter. Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott thanks to @petitebrunette matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
brook shelley I think I already posted this in my newsletter, but it's a very good article on how and why to do your own web stuff matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
fluffy Keeping it personal I just read this great essay by Matthias Ott. It does a great job of summarizing the state of affairs of blogging and social media, and how we can try to escape the current orbit to get back to where the web was meant to be.
????;????;????;????; ????;????;????;????;????;????;✨; I've been enjoying Twitter a lot more since the Algorithm suddenly started making more of an effort to put me in the way of interesting conversations + people + projects, but… ????; matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
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Eco Web Hosting "There is one alternative to social media sites and publishing platforms that has been around since the early, innocent days of the web. It is an alternative that provides immense freedom and control: The personal website." - @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
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Ahmed Al Omran Now imagine, for a moment, an environment where a decentralized fabric of connected personal sites allows everyone to publish their own content but also enables each individual to engage in an open discussion matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
bodemotion Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer wunderbarer Text über die hoffentlich baldige Rückkehr der eigenen Homepage. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Chris Aldrich Social Reading User Interface for Discovery I read quite a bit of material online. I save “bookmarks” of all of it on my personal website, sometimes with some additional notes and sometimes even with more explicit annotations. One of the things I feel like I’m missing from my browser, browser extensions, and/or social feed reader is a social layer overlay that could indicate that people in my social network(s) have read or interacted directly with ...
Chuck Munson Going Indie. Step 2: Reclaiming Content matthiasott.com/articles/into-… #IndieWeb #OpenWeb
Tekla Szymanski Your content is one of your most valuable assets and thus owning it is key. It gets drowned out on social media and you'll loose copyrights on some publishing platforms. Go back to a personal website, share, link and interact on your terms. via @m_ott ow.ly/Fc9s30p1kER
Hyperalp Der beste Artikel seit langem für alle, die etwas im Netz publizieren. Leseempfehlung. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
T❘;LM△;N Inspiring article by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-… tldr;: Let’s ditch all those flawed commercial social networks and built a new one, with personal linked websites, like in the old days! ????; Is this the future? Sounds good.
Stéphanie Walter I was quite depressed about my personal site the last couple of weeks because I got quite some exhausting and annoying comments about it. But this article is exactly what I needed to read: "Personal-Website-Verse" matthiasott.com/articles/into-… 1/
msgWP We couldn't agree more, @m_ott. "There is one alternative to social media sites and publishing platforms that has been around since the early, innocent days of the web. It is an alternative that provides immense freedom and control: The personal website." matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
????; Mike Tannenbaum ????; Love it this ode to the personal website. “Personal websites are the backbone of the independent Web of creators. They remain a vital part of what makes the web the most remarkable and open medium to date.” Well said, @m_ott! matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
SitePoint The personal website is making a comeback. @m_ott has some thoughts, and practical advice for those looking to get involved. buff.ly/2X4pePv
Kevin Kirkpatrick A love letter to personal websites. ????;????; Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Jérôme Gamez This is good: „Into the Personal-Website-Verse“ by @m_ott (via @DenseDiscovery) matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
0 Irregular Batch of Interesting Links #8 It seems that my irregular batches are becoming weekly. This week there are links to articles about how tech affects people and about humans. Looking around at social media and web in general, it is more than ever important to keep personal websites alive. Matthias Ott wrote good introduction to them. Through one of the recommended blogs in my RSS feed I came across Luis Coelho illustrations of animals. Online ...
Brendan Schlagel Enjoyed this article about personal websites: as personal exploratory space; as playground for creative learning and tinkering; as community web… Making me want to implement webrings & webmentions on my own site(s)!
Jacob Sam-La Rose And in the moments between things, I'm thinking about how to make best use of the web (again)... From matthiasott.com/articles/into-…:
AKA Something I've been thinking about for quite a while: why personal websites and blogs are so much better than social media in 2019: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… (h/t @dan_hill)
Paul I really enjoyed reading Matthias Ott’s post titled Into the Personal-Website-Verse. It’s an essay about why it’s so important to have your own space on the Web, and why IndieWeb is a great way to get there. It’s well worth the read. There are many reasons to have your own site, at your own domain, that you control. Aside from retaining effective control over your content, the risk of entrusting our ...
Ecologia Digital "Personal websites are the backbone of the #indieWeb of creators. If we don’t pay enough attention and care about the #openweb, we might lose this valuable asset. So let us protect the Web as a source of inspiration, diversity, creativity, and community." matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Mark Dittmer Here’s my first shot at a quill-post for unused-for-almost-a-decade blog. Thanks @m_ott for the inspiration via matthiasott.com/articles/into-… (blog.markdittmer.org/?p=118)
Karthik Two fantastic perspectives on the need to own your digital narrative, in a place that you can call your own. One, from @m_ott, a User Experience Designer: Into the Personal-Website-Verse bit.ly/2wlWyWZ His #longread on personal websites goes back to the 1/5
Paul McFedries “There is one alternative to social media sites and publishing platforms that has been around since the early, innocent days of the web. It is an alternative that provides immense freedom and control: The personal website.” —@m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Amber Wilson For the love of personal websites ♥️; thanks for the awesome, important post and mention @m_ott. I'm soon going to document each part of my in-progress site re-make and release lots more posts! :-) #PersonalWebsites
Geffrey van der Bos In reply to: Into the Personal-Website-Verse Move away from the censored social media silos. Start a social, personal website. You own all the content, all under your own domain name. How great does that even sound! Thank you, Matthias, for the inspiration of making my website just a tat more social. And of course for our short brainstorm on Twitter!
Graphite A great reminder from @m_ott that there is plenty we can do as individuals to reclaim the decentralization that was once the web matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Codrops Collective #515 May 13, 2019View All Into the Personal-Website-Verse * mailgo * Fontanello * GitHub Package Registry * What's new in JavaScript Collective514
Eugene Martell Hello world! Inspired by this great post by Matthias Ott, I’m rebooting my personal website. For too long I’ve been worried about whether I had anything good to write or unique to contribute (and, honestly, what this site would look like), but as Matthias says: [D]on’t hesitate to write about little ideas and observations that might seem too small or unimportant to share. We all have our unique perspectives and even ...
Colin Devroe I watched Tantek’s presentation Take Back Your Web from Beyond Tellerrand during lunch. Great presentation. From it I added Mattias Ott’s blog post and this one by Aaron Parecki to Unmark to read later. Via Jeremy Keith.
Ignacio Villanueva Siempre he dicho que me gusta ser "dueño" en la medida de lo posible del contenido que creo (salvo Twitter, claro). ¿Sabéis lo que son los Web Silos? Medium es un ejemplo claro, Facebook, Twitter... ????; Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Rob King I once tried to start a webring with only people called Rob King. It was the "King Ring". It didn't really take off.
Bill Bennett Matthias Ott just reminded me to check the microformat stuff was working on my billbennett.co.nz site (it wasn’t). These things are important. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Bill Bennett Also, I like the idea of bringing back webrings. Researching that will keep me out of mischief this weekend. matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Bill Bennett Matthias Ott just reminded me to check the microformat stuff was working on my billbennett.co.nz site (it wasn’t). These things are important. matthiasott.com/articles/…
Webrocker Take back your web - Tantek Çelik @ Beyond Tellerrand Conference, Düsseldorf 2019 Watch this. Understand this. For quite a while now I really think we are at a crucial point in the history of the web. In the weeks before this year's event, I thought back at my first visits to the Beyond Tellerrand Conference, how much it impressed me and where I was exposed to a real paradigm shift right at the start of the "responsive" thing. In the following years, the talks and general trends got ...
Aditee Singhi Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… #initiatives
Chris Heilmann One very personal dislike I have is articles where the scrollbar doesn't indicate the length. (Yes, this is probably an "old person of the web" thing). Take matthiasott.com/articles/into-… on a desktop computer. The scrollbar indicates it is HUUUUUUUGGEE and I didn't read it until ...
Chris Heilmann "Into the Personal-Website-Verse" matthiasott.com/articles/into-… @m_ott with an empowering, detailed post how to make your personal mark on the web by owning your content.
Stefan Judis Excellent article by @m_ott about why owning your data is important and the role your personal website plays in this. ????;????;????; matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Matt Robin Personal Websites: It's not nostalgia, but this also reminds me of previous remarks by @zeldman (unless I'm mistaken, please, correct me if I'm wrong Jeffey!) matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
nuncapops Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
theAdhocracy Fantastic article an the alternative to giant corporations, tech monopolies, and bot-infested race-to-the-bottom social media: the humble, personal website. ????; Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Pinboard Popular Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Val Head Reading this made me feel equal parts guilty and inspired. Time to get that personal site up and running again! @m_ott makes a very good case for why personal web sites and the indie web are so important both for you and the community: matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Pinboard Popular Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Darathtey Din Interesting read | Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
jérôme coupé The « retour en grâce » of the personal website. Let’s weave our little corners of the web together /via @thylo matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Sanne Peters A good argumentation for owning and maintaining your own content and not using social media for it: matthiasott.com/articles/into-… Yes, I am aware of my own hypocrisy ????;
ZenphotoCMS „Into the Personal-Website-Verse“ matthiasott.com/articles/into-… https://t.co/SJQImzOlWe
Malte Müller „Into the Personal-Website-Verse“ matthiasott.com/articles/into-… https://t.co/DiLSXsKP0O
Mike Taylor Into the Personal-Website-Verse · A personal website is also a powerful playground to tinker with new technologies and discover your powers. @m_ott buff.ly/30ioWae
HJ Chen @ YGLF Vilnius “Don’t do it like me. Do it like you.”–@m_ott on building your personal website ❤;️; #web
smallbellows Hello world? In a moment of inspiration combined perfectly with procrastination, I have decided to start a personal web page. This will be a place for me to explore and experiment, to try stuff out, and to talk “out loud” about those experiences. I was heartily inspired by Matthias Ott’s post on the perks personal website. So far, all I’ve done is install WordPress. Something I’ve done many, many times. But ...
Katherine Moss Just getting started on cambridgeport90.net. Basically a blog, and anything else I find interesting.
Gift Egwuenu ✨; ⭐;️; Recommended read: Into the Personal-Website-Verse, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Quentin Bellanger Best reading of the week! I wish people rely less on social media platforms and more on personal websites. In my experience, my personal website taught me so much. It's basically my dev playground where I can write and experiment new things.
Superluchito Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Ana Rodrigues Another amazing article about personal web sites that came out this weekend. ✨; "But most importantly, having a website makes you part of an amazing community of creators, forming new friendships, new connections, and new opportunities. This is invaluable."
lobste.rs bot Into the Personal-Website-Verse matthiasott.com/articles/into-… lobste.rs/s/ocyjzv/into_… #philosophy
dirk döring This is a must read. And it even more fires my motivation to finish my website i started last weekend @indiewebcamp #quitslacking
jackyalciné (he/him/his) Lots of nuggets of gold and strong cases for the IndieWeb in this post from Matthias Ott: matthiasott.com/articles/into-…. (v2.jacky.wtf/post/433031d8-…)
Jacky Alciné Lots of nuggets of gold and strong cases for the IndieWeb in this post from Matthias Ott: https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse.
Kevin Stewart Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-… via @instapaper
Lobsters Into the Personal-Website-Verse via @danburzo lobste.rs/s/ocyjzv #philosophy matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Adactio Links Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Israel Muñoz "Especialmente, pero no solo, si trabajas como independiente o freelancer, tu contenido no es solamente algo que hayas creado, sino que es parte de tu identidad. Es parte de lo que eres, lo que estás pensando, lo que crees, y lo que estás haciendo": @m_ott matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Philip Brewer Why did this stop being automatic! "So if you write or put any kind of content on your site, also make sure to add an RSS feed." matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Sara Soueidan This article by ;@m_ott; about the state of the Web & the importance of personal Web sites should become a must read. I wanted to quote every paragraph in it. His passion for a truly Indie Web is evident
Manuel Matuzović; Oh, wow! You should read this fantastic article by @m_ott. "Personal websites are the backbone of the independent Web of creators. Even after all those years, they remain a vital part of what makes the web the most remarkable and open medium to date."
Calum Ryan | calumryan.com "Whenever you stumble upon an interesting thought on another site, write about it and link to it." | An in-depth article about protecting the open web and having a personal website – Into the Personal-Website-Verse by @m_ott » (matthiasott.com/articles/into-…) (calumryan.com/note/2677)
Calum Ryan "Whenever you stumble upon an interesting thought on another site, write about it and link to it." | An in-depth article about protecting the open web and having a personal website – Into the Personal-Website-Verse by @m_ott » (https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse)
Oliver Schöndorfer “If we would make the conscious decision to find better ways to connect our personal sites and to enable more social interaction again, … we could … influence the development of Web technologies into this direction.” Thanks for this article, @m_ott
Max Böck Join the indieweb today and start publishing on your own site. We can bring back the web we had. #LetsFixThis
https://jgregorymcverry.com Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer: matthiasott.com/articles/into-…
Greg McVerry Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer #IndieWeb #why
Max Böck Join the indieweb today and start publishing on your own site. We can bring back the web we had. #LetsFixThis
Tom Tinkerson A love letter to your personal publishing space aka your own web site. Great read (once again) by ;@m_ott;
Sebastian Greger 12 May 2019 | 02:00 The week in quotes (2019W19) Vicky Boykis advocates for “a move to leisure as a modus operandi”: The ability to have room for leisure has always also been an upper-class pursuit. Just ask anyone at Downton Abbey. What did people do there all day? Breakfast, chat, read, take walks, and by then it was time for dinner on large, quiet estates. Today, the true signal of privilege and choice means not only the ability to block out physical ...
fluffy 26 June 2019 | 06:22 Keeping it personal I just read this great essay by Matthias Ott. It does a great job of summarizing the state of affairs of blogging and social media, and how we can try to escape the current orbit to get back to where the web was meant to be. I especially like the bit about “Don’t do it like me. Do it like you.” Because that is exactly why I’ve been building Publ the way I have; I have specific goals in mind for how I ...
Stefan Grund 6 July 2019 | 02:00 Into the Personal-Website-Verse If we would make the conscious decision to find better ways to connect our personal sites and to enable more social interaction again, and if we would then persistently work on this idea, then we could, bit by bit, influence the development of Web technologies into this direction. What we would end up with is not only a bunch of personal websites but a whole interconnected personal-website-verse. Matthias hält ...
Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast and accessibility specialist from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works on accessibility standards for the Dutch government (views his own) and is a participant in the Open UI Community G 18 May 2021 | 00:00 150 This blog has now reached the somewhat random milestone of 150 posts. When I asked around what post #150 should be about, the Twitterverse said “blogging”. Well, OK! Fun fact, this isn’t my first blog: from 2008 to 2014, I had a travel blog, where I tried to write funny posts about my trips abroad for family and friends. This blog is different as I try to, ahem, add “something” to the field of web ...
Matthias Ott 12 November 2022 | 11:51 @alex86 Great! Let me – all of us, actually – know when you have an RSS feed! 🤗
Barijaona Ramaholimihaso 12 November 2022 | 13:37 @endocrine_witch @matthiasott I will definitely publish more on mine !
Victoria Elliott 12 November 2022 | 13:51 @matthiasott People go for the happy path. Ease of use has undoubtedly been a significant contributor to Twitter’s success. The shadow side of this is that alternatives are less appealing and so therefore the options in real-terms are limited. You could even go as far as saying that effective design can be an enemy of the good due to creating a monopoly effect. It’s hard to find a meaningful alternative to ...
Matthias Ott 12 November 2022 | 15:44 @vce_elliott Yes, I fully agree! I remember a vivid discussion about this at one of the first IndieWebCamps I attended. There is a barrier to owning your content and publication platforms are trying to make it as easy as possible to publish inside their walled gardens and to give us immediate gratification for it, so that it is convenient to just write and hit publish there. On the other hand: it is as easy as ...
Matthias Ott 12 November 2022 | 15:45 @vce_elliott Just as an example, you could start on wordpress.com and later move on to your own server. Some hosters also offer one-click installations of CMSes etc. And I still believe that over time more good design will flow into the alternatives so that they eventually are getting easier to use.
Matthias Ott 12 November 2022 | 15:46 @vce_elliott In a perfect world, there would be a service where you can get your own little corner on the Web with a quick installation of everything, your data stored in a format that is easy to exchange or convert if you ever want to change your CMS/SSG, and a website that has already a best-of of IndieWeb technology built in, like Webmentions or syndication to different platforms.
Sandy McAfee 🐟 22 November 2022 | 09:37 @vce_elliott @matthiasott can you please recommend an “idiot’s guide” or similar that covers the basics of eg how to set up and run a personal mastodon instance, or a personal website for blogging and RSS even? 40 years ago I enjoyed programming with BBC Basic but I haven’t done any since. You’ve convinced me that this is worth experimenting with but the jargon baffles me. Many thanks 😊
Matthias Ott 12 November 2022 | 20:35 @seeingwithsound No, not at all! You can decide for yourself how much and what you want to use your own site for. Some people try to do almost everything via their site and actually also write replies there, like @adactio. Some publish blog posts on their site, share the links, and collect reactions via Webmentions. Or you could also start a microblogging section on your site and syndicate the posts into ...
KWolf 12 November 2022 | 23:19 @muon @matthiasott Social media are not valid to preseve knowlede, know how or culture. They are as spoken words: They should be recognized and perhaps led to catalise thougts to be fixed in books or magazines, hypotheses is to be scientifically verified, opinions to be further developed or to be rejected or forgotten.
Daniel Mclaughlan 13 November 2022 | 12:30 @matthiasott I’m feeling that inclination to write again. However, I don’t have the time or energy for traditional self-hosting. Revisiting Eleventy and Netlify again as a nice way to spin something up and write posts in Markdown. For ages, I thought the lack of user friendly privacy-focused comments on static sites was a deal breaker. However, I’m realising the personal web doesn’t need a single solution:
Matthias Ott 13 November 2022 | 12:33 @straydogstrut That’s only unfortunate if you don’t enjoy tinkering with the technical stuff 😉 It your place, so if you tinker more than you write and it gives you joy, it’s still worthwhile, I guess? But I also struggle with this. And constantly write about it… 🫣 e.g. https://matthiasott.com/notes/just-put-stuff-out-there Just Put Stuff Out There · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
Daniel Mclaughlan 13 November 2022 | 12:40 @matthiasott Thanks, another nice read😊 Every so often when I was blogging regularly, I would experience an identity crisis of what the blog should be about. I’d get so wrapped in knots deciding what to write about/or not that I’d lose momentum. Starting again is a fresh start for new interests but there are also interests I don’t want to leave behind. Chris Coyier’s site that you linked to is a great ...
Dr Footleg (he/him) 15 November 2022 | 18:00 @kali @matthiasott Have you checked the internet archive or wayback machine sites for an archive of his blog?
Kali 15 November 2022 | 20:17 @drfootleg @matthiasott unfortunately, yes. waybackmachine had no archives of it :(
Kali 16 November 2022 | 05:03 @matthiasott @drfootleg Hey @Raspberry_Pi does anyone over there have copies of Andy Baker’s blog from 2013-2015? I remember following it years ago but it might just be lost to time
Collector Of Dreams 24 November 2022 | 11:27 @vce_elliott @matthiasott i has a WordPress website, even more lonely than my rss, and It was very beautiful, It was about my services of caring pets but changed into something further. I Also helped at a very large blog in several languages run by someone in Italy about #veganfood but después being so Big and nice, its almost dead. As we have fee time a dont share things unless we believe, there IS someone on ...
Hidde 23 June 2023 | 13:26 @patrick_h_lauke @matthiasott I wish we could start some kind of indieweb fund that keeps paying the bills in case we go. or is this something to put in one's own will?
Patrick H. Lauke 23 June 2023 | 13:27 @hdv @matthiasott "on my death, please upload all my digital assets to archive.org"
Matthias Ott 23 June 2023 | 13:44 @patrick_h_lauke @hdv “To read uncle Mats articles, please make sure Bluetooth is turned on, hold your mobile device close to the gravestone, and tap ‘Progressive Web Gravestone’ in the list of available Bluetooth devices.”
Jens Grochtdreis 23 June 2023 | 13:30 @hdv @patrick_h_lauke @matthiasott Why should our musings on twitter or our private website be interesting and important enough to be preserved for future generations? Do we really feel so important? Would we like to read all tiwtter from around 40 AC from ancient rome, if it would have existed? Wouldn't some accounts be enough?
Hidde 23 June 2023 | 13:32 @jensgro @patrick_h_lauke @matthiasott tbh for me it's only blog posts I care about, if anything
Patrick H. Lauke 23 June 2023 | 13:32 @jensgro @hdv @matthiasott "Would we like to read all tiwtter from around 40 AC from ancient rome" if the data is searchable, that could be of interest. "Wouldn't some accounts be enough?" who decides what/who is worth preserving?
James Edwards 23 June 2023 | 13:41 @patrick_h_lauke @jensgro @hdv @matthiasott I would like to be able to read that yeah. Day to day accounts of ordinary people are of huge historical value
Hidde 23 June 2023 | 13:35 @patrick_h_lauke @jensgro @matthiasott would say only presidents/prime ministers etc but then that means Trump ans May too 🥱
Patrick H. Lauke 23 June 2023 | 13:36 @hdv @jensgro @matthiasott they're so far removed from the experiences of "regular" people though...you'll basically just get the sanitised "official record" of what happened/what the mood was
Jens Grochtdreis 23 June 2023 | 14:02 @hdv @patrick_h_lauke @matthiasott Trump and May would be perfect examples why mankind descends from the ape and why mankind is not per se intelligent 🙂 qed ...
Jens Grochtdreis 23 June 2023 | 15:48 @siblingpastry @patrick_h_lauke @hdv @matthiasott I would like to read some, yeah. But not from millions 🙂
Matthias Ott 2 July 2023 | 09:35 @poemproducer You mean because not everyone can afford the monthly costs of running their own site? Or because there is also a bit of knowledge required? That is true and those barriers definitely need to be reduced/removed. On the other hand, the “return on investment” for a personal site can be really high! For the price of one pack of cigarettes (in DE), you get a personal playground on which you can ...
James Scholes 7 November 2023 | 01:00 @miki @matthiasott Personal websites also require some semblance of design and development to stand out, and being able to do those tasks is relative privilege. I'd love to lovingly craft my own site but at the same time I'm blind, work in accessibility, and cannot independently verify that it meets my own high visual accessibility standards. If I also hate walled gardens, it's easier to just not write anything.
Watson 2 July 2024 | 21:39 Why a personal site rather than social media presence? Kev Quirk answered the question in his blog( https://kevquirk.com/blog/why-have-a-personal-site-instead-of-social-media ) and I wanted to add my two cents on top. It’s a topic close to my heart as a website owner and personal web advocate. For Kev, the main reason to have a personal site is ownership. When you are only using social sites, you are completely relying on their decisions and whims. A site might go ...
Ana Rodrigues 4 May 2025 | 15:39 May bookmarks This month went by really quickly! It must have been the two bank holidays. And it was a busy month: I did three talks, helped organise a meet-up, attended some meet-ups too, work as usual and life! But I will explore this on another post sometime in the future. For now, this month's bookmarks. Bookmarks from May Non-tech articles 4 Reasons a Hiring Manager Doesn’t Extend a Job Offer - by Leslie Yang Sweden by ...
Design and Engineering, As One Designers and engineers think about the same product through different lenses. That difference isn’t the problem – in the right conditions, it’s one of the most valuable assets a team has. The problem is that we inherited a sequential process from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, most web product teams are still running on that model. The gap between design and engineering wasn’t inevitable. And it can be closed. Continue reading
Webspace Invaders There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking our servers wave after wave, systematically requesting page after page, relentlessly filling their data stores while we watch our access logs fill up. The webspace invaders have arrived. Continue reading
