Another thoughtful and well-written #blogpost by @brennan The part that stood out to me is his recognition of how #google has narrowed our knowledge and limited how we satisfy our curiosity:"We've outsourced the act of discovery, of curiosity itself, to a system structurally incentivized to show us ads and that increasingly surfaces content generated specifically to satisfy its own ranking signals, not to satisfy us."https://brennan.day/my-malware-story-gets-stolen-yet-another-argument-for-the-indieweb/#indieweb #brennanday #seo

Hey, you, reader:Ever been browsing someone's blog, website, repo -- even their social web profile -- and thought to yourself "Wow, that's really neat. I love what they did here!"Consider telling them! Someone on here made a post a while back encouraging people to do just that, and I've tried to make a conscious habit of contacting the authors of neat little indie and smolweb sites.Email, guestbook, comment; whatever it might be, consider reaching out somehow to share your appreciation. You might be surprised at how much it makes their day.You might also be surprised to discover how much making their day makes yours, too.#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Community #Blog #Blogging

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Hi #Forkiverse people! I'm a writer of fiction and nonfiction. I'm blind and have been in the Fediverse a long time now but I love it here! I blog a lot and an introduction to my blog can be found at https://sightlessscribbles.com/welcome-note/ #Introduction #Introductions #NewHere #Blog #Blogging #IndieWeb

Start a #blog. Start one because the practice of writing at length, for an audience you respect, about things that matter to you, is itself valuable. Start one because owning your own platform is a form of independence that becomes more important as centralized platforms become less trustworthy. Start one because the format shapes the thought, and this format is good for thinking.The blog won't save us. But it's one of the tools we'll need if we're going to save ourselves. - Joan Westenberg, The Case for Blogging in the Ruins https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/ #IndieWeb