Welcome to 2025!
15 years ago today I began posting notes on my own #indieweb site first, and only later on #socialMedia: https://tantek.com/2010/001/t1/declaring-independence-building-it
You can too.
I am once again encouraging you start the year with:
1. Getting a personal domain name
2. Posting on your own site first, then syndicating elsewhere: #POSSE
In 2025 there are even more neighborhoods with other people’s garages¹ to post into. Companies, servers, services, disappear all the time, taking all their posts and permalinks with them to graveyard 404².
This is your annual reminder to embrace #independent ownership of your online self, your creations, and their #longevity:
* Own your domain -> own your online identity
* Own your permalinks -> own your posts
Want help? Just ask: https://chat.indieweb.org/
#ownYourContent #ownYourData
Once again I am restarting a #100PostsOfIndieWeb #100Posts project for the year.
This is post 1.
Previously, previously, previously:
* https://tantek.com/2024/001/t1/restarting-100days-indieweb-gift-calendar
* https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
* https://tantek.com/2022/001/t1/12-years-notes-my-site
* https://tantek.com/2020/001/t1/10-years-notes-my-site
* https://tantek.com/2015/002/t1/notes-replies-faves-before-twitter-ownyourdata
← 
→ https://tantek.com/2025/001/t2/first-new-year-review-prior
Glossary:
IndieWeb
https://indieweb.org/
longevity
https://indieweb.org/longevity
post
https://indieweb.org/post
permalink
https://indieweb.org/permalink
personal domain name
https://indieweb.org/personal-domain
POSSE
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
syndicate
https://indieweb.org/syndicate
¹ https://tantek.com/2023/022/t2/own-your-notes-domain-migration
² https://indieweb.org/site-deaths
#ownyourcontent
I repeat for the folks in the back, why I'm putting my eggs in Obsidian (or projects with that mindset) even with the downside compared to Notion/Anytype/etc :
“Why a file format?
- Files enable longevity. Databases get turned off. Files live forever.
- Files enable easy migration between tools, fighting vendor lock-in.”
It’s time to build own home cloud 
#Privacy #OwnYourContent #HomeCloud #CloudComputing #NAS
This whole resurgence of the #personalWebsite and #ownYourContent made me feel like I kind of missed the golden age of getting your content seen and read on quality alone instead of resorting to gaming the system with clickbait and excessive SEO while working less on what you want to and more on what fits the users on platforms. 
Did we kind of become dependent on algorithms and recommended pages to sift through all the heartless junk out there? 
Happy to be a guest on the Torque Social Hour tonight with fellow guest @davidbisset and host @docpop.
We're going to be talking about new tools and strategies to keep your WordPress site connected to the social networking sites. We'll talk about a tool that helps you archive your tweets on your own site, fediverse integration, and more.
The show is starting now:
Submit your blog by Jan. 7, 2023 to participate in “Bring back blogging”
To bring back blogging:
• write 3 posts per month (any subject, any length)
• get into the habit for months to come
• add other bloggers’ feeds in your #RSSreader
• publicize your blog, share your favorite blogs
And reap the goodies! enjoy the serendipity of learning new things or discovering unknown aspects of peeps.
#blog #BringBackBlogging #OwnYourContent #serendipitity
h/t @kpl
In last two weeks I deleted my accounts from Clubhouse, Vero, Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Medium. I moved to Mastodon and Pixelfed. Also I created self hosted instance of writefreely (writefreely.social) and moved there all articles from Medium. #ownyourcontent
birdsite
@harmag I guess there's one other even more radical form of doing #socialmedia and that is the distributed one. I got into checking this out while working on solutions to achieve my personal goal of #ownyourcontent. Distributed social networks like SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt) and others are really fascinating me but I still don't see or understand how they might reach the maturity of the #fediverse. For me #centralized big #tech silos are a no longer a valid option.