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V.H. Belvadi’s theme for the January 2025 IndieWeb Carnival, On the importance of friction, is an invitation for me to gather various threads that I have found in my reading in the last few weeks, and indeed to practise that friction in writing this post.1 As I slowed down over the New Year and spent more time on slow and deep reading, I saw that other bloggers were also developing more intentional reading practices. Jeremy Friesen customised his Mastodon and Emacs setup, ...

If I’m going to promote IndieWeb principles, those principles had better include solidarity.

Molly White: The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech… let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control. Digital sovereignty is more important than ever. I’ve been going on about this for years. Maybe this is the moment when you decide you want to take control of your online identity, but what if you don’t know how to start? ...

I still have friends and family whose online social experience is only on Facebook and its cousins. I periodically post reminders there to say that I’m not active on Facebook and my Hello page here always has my current contact details. In the spirit of PESOS (Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate on Own Site), here’s a copy of my most recent reminder post. Periodic reminder that I’m not really here on this hellsite and you can contact/connect with me through any of the methods listed on https://www.claudinec.net/hello/ ...