Homepage[^1] First

I'll use this post as my sample for This Site Requires below

I don't think I've written this down anywhere yet, although the core idea certainly isn't new [^2].

Instead of automatically posting material to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.., post it in a space you control first. Only then share any of your own content on the big $-motivated platforms. And only share as little or as much as you want to, on a case-by-case basis. Copy & paste everything, get AI to write a summary, only post a link. Your choice.

But I've still not adopted the principle (? better word?) myself, despite having the provider of what you're looking at under my own control (cheapo quasi-bare metal virtual server, nginx and a bunch of node code). Aside from the elephant in the cyberspace that this site ain't much to look at (yet!), there are some key elements I need to work on a bit first :

This Site Requires

• Accessibility - firstly in the broadest sense, presenting this stuff in a form that will work ok for most people on common devices. But high on the list are using some of the techniques of Web Accessibility to remove tech obstacles that might limit the potential audience.
• Modalities - other aspects of the same kind of thing, focusing on supporting multiple devices, multiple media. I don't yet have a workflow for easily publishing video & audio Homepage First. Very low-hanging fruit in this domain is giving the site a feed : Atom format first (because I was on the WG, I think it's the only RFC with my name in it).
• SEO (Ho-ho-ho) - page metadata, rich snippety things, so that links posted to the platforms, search results etc. have a decent preview

I'm framing Homepage First as a (lazy¹) campaign. I'll do a proper launch when I've got my systems set up to capture comments etc. (This will be lazy¹ again - I'll just post a link here and there. I've given myself an artificial deadline of 2024-10-31 for announcing the release of a load of unfinished work, I'll chuck this in).

Footlings

[1^]: 'Homepage' was best (but still not great) signifier for the space I could come up with was 'Homepage'. I bet the proportion of people that knows what that means has actually declined over the past 20 years.

[2^]: Related material will appear around here soon. I currently have documenting specific bits of history (#:FOAF!) as a priority job. But the whole milieu-milieu around trends in social media, the Web and tech at large and the status of Open Social (as a good-enough umbrella term) is due a revisit, so my todo list is a bit broader.

Oh yeah, I also dislike 'upcycling'. Ok, the principle sounds ok - recycling and adding value (eg. environmental or artistic). But if you're making something, using recycled materials and being environment-friendly should be the defaults, not virtue-signaling nonsense over using a feather to repaint an ugly plain vase to make it an uglier decorated vase. Oh yeah, and 'proactive', what is that beyond management babble meaning active. Ok, like 'hacktivism' and 'upcycling' I suppose it has value in wankiness-signalling.