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  • 🔗 Click Around, Find Out

    Click around. Or tap around. Or do whatever you need to do in the browser of your choice. If we want the indie web to flourish, the very first thing people need to get used to is actually browsing the web again.
    We call them web browsers for a reason. You're meant to browse.

    My sense is that the recommendation engines for articles has the same flaw as music recommendation engines that gets people stuck in a loop. i.e. When given the option to pick between "everything" you mostly end up visiting the same 5 sites or listening to the same handful of albums because there's too much choice and we can't decide. They try to get you to explore a bit, the recommendation engines don't carry the authority or weight that a friend or blog you might follow, so you're back to the usual rotation in no time.

    Want to browse more but not sure where to start?  Visit to ooh.directory and start clicking. You're sure to find something of interest.

  • 🔗 Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet

    Online platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.
    This tracks with my experience growing up online. AIM was good, but IRC was my gateway drug for the internet. Being able to interact with like-minded people my age across the world in real time was a real treat. Now it's the norm.

    I find this move from the silos to smaller, distributed communities and platforms like Mastodon and the IndieWeb encouraging.

  • 🔗 I gamified my own blog

    Many platforms these days have some gamification features. One of the common features is awarding users/members/players different badges to reward their loyalty and activity in the platform.
    I decided to award some to myself since I self-host my blog and have no one else to give me badges.
    I really like the idea of awarding yourself badges. Could be a fun plugin for Tanzawa.

  • 🔗 Social media is sugar. It’s time we limit its negative impact

    If social media is analogous to sugar, then what is the digital equivalent of eating our vegetables? I believe it involves supporting the parallel growth of democratized publications that are conversely creating an unmistakable net good in society.
    Besides supporting just publications, we should be supporting platforms that allow people to create their own garden and interact with web in an open manner. Finding the IndieWeb is what started me on the path to eating my vegetables again. 

  • 🔗 Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?

    He's turning Automattic into a different kind of tech giant. But can he take on the trillion-dollar walled gardens and give the internet back to the people?
    While I agree with Matt that decentralization and individual ownership are central to a Web3, the crypto/blockchain aspect of it is a technological farce.

    Following the principles of IndieWeb on your own domain will allow you, today, to own all of your data and to interact with other people absent of any intermediary service and without melting the arctic.

    A major motivator for building Tanzawa was individual ownership. It's not enough to have your data, but have it stuck in a in serialzied blob in a Wordpress plugin data column somewhere. It's too difficult and cumbersome to reuse. It must be in a proper relational schema. So far the fruits of my indieweb journey have allowed me to not only own my data, but to actually use it to  build upon it. Both trips and maps wouldn't have been possible without Tanzawa.
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