indieweb – Page 2 – Elizabeth Tai

Some flaws with ActivityPub and wordpress.com integration

Oct 15, 2023

Definitely liking how ActivityPub works with my two blogs. However, there are a few limitations.

Why I Left Apple’s Ecosystem

Jul 13, 2023

I acknowledge that Apple products are sleeker, high in quality and they “just work”. But I still left the Apple Ecosystem anyway and have absolutely no regrets.

The sorry state of social media

Jul 9, 2023

A good post by SelfAwarePatterns about Threads and why social media is mostly crummy these days.

The puritanical pursuit of platform purity

Jul 9, 2023

Threads is out. And the natives are restless. 🍿 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

Being an imperfect gardener of my digital garden

Jul 6, 2023

The way I blog has drastically changed since I discovered the IndieWeb. For one, I’m less precious with my blog posts. I allow mistakes, errors, and no longer think chronologically. Every post is an evolving document.

Google: All your content are belong to us

Jul 4, 2023

In a move that surprised absolutely nobody, Google has changed its privacy policy to declare that they will scrape up anything you post online to train their AI tools. How should writers and artists protect their content from now on?

How I am blogging the IndieWeb way

Jul 3, 2023

Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Medium, Substack … if you’re building your content home on any of these, it’s time to wake up to the cold hard reality that they could all disappear on you one day. As a writer, embracing Indieweb principles could save your life’s work from disappearing along with these platforms. Here’s how I…

POSSE and PESOS: Better ways to publish content

Jul 2, 2023

When I wrote this today, #TwitterDown was trending on Mastodon. Here’s another lesson why using platforms like Twitter and Substack as your content home is a bad idea. Publish your content the POSSE/PESOS way and you avoid much of the dangers of a social media site melting down.

How I’m healing from algorithms

Jun 20, 2023

The slow awakening that I no longer have to create around an algorithm’s demands. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

The point of my words

Jun 18, 2023

People are dying. The world is in chaos. Do our words matter? 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

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