Tag: community
BandCamp, ey: Das ist doch völlig nutzlos für mich
Ich treibe mich seit einiger Zeit wieder auf BandCamp rum, wie ihr ja wisst. Aber ich muss ehrlich sagen, dass es vöiig nutzlos für mich ist. Ich weiß schon, dass die Plattform sich nicht dafür eignet, sich mit Hörern auszutauschen. Obwohl es das ja gibt. Und mir ist auch klar, dass man dort die Veröffentlichungen...
On Atproto and Atmospheric Groups
I'm starting A Fresh Blog(tm), this time on Pckt. I wanted a dedicated space to post about development, atproto, and community thoughts, and a new space felt like the right place for it. Plus I wanted to get in on standard.site summer while it's still ongoing. Before I get into any of that, though, an introduction. As of a little over a month ago, I work at Bluesky! Before that I was a staff engineer at GitHub, and a long time before that I have a background in public health, which colors a lot ...
I’m sure one of the worst nightmares for …
I’m sure one of the worst nightmares for any parent is your child going missing.I was out on my morning Wisdom Walk today and noticed an unusual number of people in the fields where I usually walk. There are often dog walkers about, but this felt different. At one point, I saw a woman looking...
To My Readers: What Do You Want To See More Of?
I finally curated my blog posts into collections, revealing what I write about most: the IndieWeb, the craft of writing, community, technical tutorials, politics, culture, and more. A call to my readers to tell me what they want to see more of, and a reflection on how organizing my work helps me understand my own writing patterns and what I want to write more of.
Shorty sagt: TikTokisierung
Um Himmels Willen! Der Uhle treibt sich jetzt auch auf dieser Plattform für die Aufmerksamkeisspanne von Goldfischen, auch als TikTok bekannt, herum. Was will er denn dort? Ich mache es kurz, sonst wäre es kein "Shorty sagt". Also: Mal gucken, was es so gibt. Denn irgendwie gibt es unsagbar viele Streams von meiner Musik durch...
Besucherschwund, und die KI ist schuld?
Ich habe beim Horst etwas gelesen, dass er mit Besucherschwund konfrontiert ist. Er denkt daran, dass es mit seiner KI-Nutzung zusammenhängt. Denn seitdem er häufiger auf KI setzt, veröffentlicht er deutlich mehr Beiträge. Er zählt also 1 und 1 zusammen. Mag sein, dass das stimmt. Vielleicht auch nur zum Teil. Aber können wir wirklich davon...
Vagueblogging and Subtweeting Are Awful
Vagueblogging and subtweeting are the most toxic modes of online communication, yet research shows people prefer them to direct confrontation anyway. On the psychology of strategic ambiguity, insecure attachment, context collapse, and the online disinhibition effect. A case against the culture of passive aggression online, and a call for those with safety and privilege to stop hiding behind the same hedge as everyone else.
A Beggar In A Million: Musikalisches Neuland
Meine neue Single ist draußen. Sie heißt "A Beggar In A Million" und ist dieses Mal so völlig anders, als so ziemlich alles sonst von mir. Es ist nicht nur ein Schritt in Richtung musikalisches Neuland. Ich läute damit auch den Versuch ein, mit meiner Musik anders umzugehen. Das Alles werde ich euch mal hier...
Influencer: Was für ein Labertaschen-Abgrund
He, Youtube, mach, dass es aufhört, dass sich Influencer stundenlang im Internet breit machen und behaupten, Meinungen verbreiten zu müssen. Das ist ja die Hölle geworden. Wer hat die denn alle auf nichtsahnende Youtube-Nutzende losgelassen? Wobei: Es ist nicht mal so sehr ein "Wer", mehr ein "Was". Denn es ist nun mal der Algorithmus. Aber...
Who actually owns your network?
Every time I moved a community to a new platform, the exit cost members and history. Platforms come and go; the lock-in architecture underneath is why. Part of 'Apps as Views, Not Vaults': the things you make are yours; apps are just the viewers.
Blogging Saved My Life
Writing publicly and frequently for the past seven months has saved my life. Six ways consistent public writing transformed me: cultivating curiosity, building connections, investigating rabbit holes, starting new projects, creating accountability, and seeing life's patterns in real-time. An invitation for others to begin writing without restraint.
Announcing folk.zone: An attempt to build the IndieWeb commons myself.
Announcing folk.zone, a collection of free, community-run internet services I'm building as an IndieWeb commons. Including Mastodon, WriteFreely, Forgejo, Pixelfed, Lemmy, and more. All self-hosted on hardware in my living space. This is infrastructure for the common folk, not for enterprise or scale, inspired by omg.lol and rooted in the IndieWeb and Fediverse principles.
Office-Welt: Wie geht es weiter?
Ich habe ganz schön viele Schlagwörter unter diesem Artikel hingeworfen. Es geht mal wieder um die Office-Welt, weil da was passiert ist. Mit Euro Office ist nämlich ein neuer Player am Start. Und nein, soweit ich das beurteilen kann, hat das nichts mit Office.eu zu tun. Aber wenn wir uns alle mal ehrlich machen, ist...
A New IndieWeb Publication? or: I Want to Start Something and Be Bad at It
Inspired by Good Internet Magazine, I'm starting a new volunteer-run IndieWeb publication tentatively called Long Horizon. Exploring my readiness to launch a digital and physical magazine focused on creative non-fiction and lyric essays, and seeking collaborators who want to build something meaningful on the Internet together.
Yes, Buy Them a Coffee: Support and Mutual Aid on the IndieWeb
Responding to criticism of 'buy me a coffee' links on blogs, I argue that asking for support isn't commodification—it's mutual aid! Exploring the economic pressures on creators, the history of mutual aid, and why the IndieWeb needs community support mechanisms to sustain independent art.
Somewhere: Neue Single unterwegs
"Somewhere" heißt sie, meine neue Single, die ihr ab morgen auf allen Streaming-Diensten und seit ein paar Tagen bei BandCamp hören könnt. Jetzt ist es ja so, dass niemand auf der Welt jemals irgendwas bei BandCamp machen würde, was er ohnehin auf den Plattformen tun kann. Deshalb gibt es dort auch auch einen Bonus, den...
Links: Klickt doch eh niemand mehr drauf
Das Internet, wie man es heutzutage kennt, ist strukturell kaputt. Warum? Weil die Funktion von Links niemand mehr ernsthaft brauchen wird. Das ist ja gar nicht böse gemeint. Die meisten Menschen auf diesem Planeten sind in irgendeinem sozialen Netzwerk unterwegs und / oder benutzen die Google-Suche, die überwiegend nur noch diese KI-Zusammenfassungen bietet. Niemand muss...
ATmosphere – Bluesky-Integration
"The atmosfear that surrounds me…" - Wenn ich an ATmosphere, den neuesten Schrei in der Bloggerwelt denke, fällt halt mir dieses Lied ein. Es ist ein neuer Sheriff in der Stadt, also ein neues Plugin, das diesmal sauber zu Bluesky synchronisieren soll. Damit schaffe ich mir wieder etwas mehr Aufwand vom Leib, nachdem bei Bluesky...
I Need To Stop Making Promises I Can't Keep
Building fanfiction.lol taught me that some promises are impossible to keep. I wanted canonical tags for everything and 'write whatever you want' as a tagline, but Canadian obscenity laws and the philosophical complexity of tag wrangling forced me to adjust. Here's what I learned about running a community archive, the legal constraints I face, and the promises I can still keep.
Be a Lover: Make Sure the Quiet Wheel Gets the Grease
The world isn't full of critics, it's full of quiet kind people who don't get nearly enough time or attention from us because we're born with a negativity bias. We need to proactively choose to be lovers and proactively grease the quiet wheels.
The Internet Needs More Cross-Pollinators
So, my silly little fanfic project blew up like crazy and received some really negative feedback. And I think I understand why. Exploring the concept of boundary spanning and cross-pollination in online communities. Drawing on organizational theory and the work of Michael Tushman. We need people who move between different online subcultures to seed ideas and build bridges.
Announcing Fanfiction.lol: A Manifesto on Human Creativity and AO3
I deployed my own AO3 fork called fanfiction.lol, an independent fanfiction archive with no invite queue, fandom-agnostic moderation, and expanded content warnings. A manifesto on why fan communities deserve free infrastructure, the history of transformative works from Virgil to AO3, and the challenges of running a volunteer-powered archive at scale.
Video: WebinAAR Wikipedia as Pedagogy
In this webinAAR, you will hear from three faculty who have incorporated Wikipedia editing into their pedagogy. During this roundtable session, faculty discuss why they decided to adopt the Wikipedia assignment and how it has affected their teaching. The panelists explore what Wikipedia can offer students and how students can help shape public understanding of...
A Love Letter to Everything
My first IndieWeb Carnival entry—the theme is love letters, and I couldn't pick just one thing. A letter to the infrastructure that holds my corner of the internet together, to the strangers who maintain the open-source tools I depend on every day, and to the IndieWeb friends I've met over the past few months. And finally, to curiosity: the embarrassing willingness to fall in love with a static-site generator or a transit system or a protocol nobody's heard of, which I've come to believe is what kept me alive.
VERO – eine Alternative zu Instagram?
Ein bisschen Geschichte VERO (früher auch mit dem Zusatz "True Social") wurde offiziell im Jahr 2015 der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt, blieb aber eigentlich eher ein Netzwerk für einige bestimmte Nischen, wie Cosplay, Makeup- und Tattoo-Künstler und Skateboarder. Damals wusste ich auch noch gar nichts davon. Entdeckt habe ich VERO im Jahr 2018, bei der ersten Popularitätswelle....
Community Spotlight: Jack Tezos
You’ve probably seen that, quite often, I write articles about community-built tools that make it easier for Tezos...
OddsRabbit Communities 🐇
Have you checked out OddsRabbit yet? It claims to be a Reddit alternative and lots of people who are getting kicked from Reddit for Rule 3 violations are switching over. It really seems to be geared to the NSFW right now, which is really no surprise and it's still building out but I've spent some time creating communities there, so thought I'd share them with you. My own personal community. You can expect promotions for some of my sites, highlights of some of my favorite blog posts and photos/vi...
Last Online 620 Weeks Ago: Why I'm Loyal to the IndieWeb
You visit your parent's house and find your white Xbox 360 in your childhood bedroom. A friends list full of gamertags that haven't booted up their own console in hundreds of weeks. On the heartbreak of digital disappearance, and why I'm committed to staying findable.
Announcing My New Radio Show (a Love Letter to Public Access Television)
From Shaw Community Television on Channel 10 to Paper Tiger Television and the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, public access was original community media. Anybody, any channel, no notes from the network. In that spirit, I'm starting a self-hosted radio station built on AzuraCast, automated with a Python cron job pulling public domain recordings from the Internet Archive, and I'm going to try to show up and broadcast.
Dreamwidth and Yearning for Humanity on the Web
The sonder and vertigo I feel about people's interior lives. Corporate social media fails to offer genuine witnessing. So, I look to Dreamwidth, a fork of LiveJournal, and fifteen years of unbroken communities. On digital gentrification and the difference between syndication and participation.
The ‘ART’icle Of The Month
Last month, I went off script, letting the spotlight follow personal discovery rather than waiting on nominations.
TezCon 2026: Beyond Enshittification
It’s time to plan your journey to TezCon.
The Daily Vibe
No, you didn't vibe design/code a system in a few hours
ATmosphere Conf 2026: the internet built for people, not platforms
370 people in Vancouver, 500 online, all working on the same question: what does the internet look like when users own their data? Highlights from the AT Protocol community conference.