Discovering the indieweb with calm tech

I've been messing with and collecting stuff like this for many years. Some links:

- On building kind, sustainable software: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/kind-software/

- Example projects (toys instead of blogs): https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/projects-and-apps-i-built-f...

- Wishlist: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/things-to-support-my-own-we...

- List of places to find indie content (something I used for my weekly newsletter): https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/places-to-find-indie-web-co...

Nowadays my current approach is:

1) meeting folks via Say Hi (unoffice hours)

2) keeping a separate RSS feed in NetNewsWire called People - this feed contains only the people I've met online or in person

EDIT: I almost forgot, but my partner wrote a cool intro to Indieweb for less techie folks: https://newpublic.substack.com/p/the-handmade-internet-is-ma...

It includes interviews with some of the people you might know from here :)

Hey, author for Blog Quest here, thanks for the kind words! I give a huge thanks to tvler for StreetPass for Mastodon, which did the heavy lifting and inspired me.

Please send along any feature requests, I know there are rough edges and more eyes will help find them. I'm also trying to decide if the RSS feature should be pushed upstream to StreetPass, or if the extensions are best staying separate. Thanks all :)

That is great. I didn't know I needed this.

After browsing for a few minutes I found that it really needs to have some kind of filter mechanism. For example, on old.reddit.com each post has its individual feed, while on blogspot you have both RSS and Atom feed.

It's surprising that it took this long for such a simple extension to appear. What a brilliant way to passively crawl high-signal content

The best tool for significantly reducing noise across social media while remaining connected is the News Feed Eradicator. LinkedIn is a particularly important tool for me, as I use this social media network a lot for work, but I can't allow myself to be distracted by it. With this little tool, I can set exactly how many minutes a day I want to spend on the feed without losing the ability to contact others directly via LinkedIn. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/news-feed-eradicato...

Source post: https://indieweb.social/@robalex/115675680018007724

This is excellent UX for feed discovery. I always found the feed subscription thing distracting- usually I am reading blogs to solve a problem or research and not collect/socialize. That is something I am in the mood for later.