Discovering the indieweb with calm tech
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·December 7, 2025qWoodpecker
mariusor
My experience to a T.
The "calm tech" concept works really well with the fediverse identities because it's such a niche concept that at the end of a day of browsing you'll get a handful of entries, but for something as ubiquitous as RSS you get a ton of useless feeds that are just. But I really, really like the basic idea, I'll see if I can apply it to the things I'm building. :)
mvkel
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
philips
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.
DavideNL
Source post: https://indieweb.social/@robalex/115675680018007724
riffraff
ironically, the blog lacks a rel=me link that would make streetpass work on it :)
ChrisArchitect
Surely the blog post itself comes before the social post linking to the blog post. The blog post is the source.
DavideNL
Obviously;
"Eugene" [1] boosted the post, which is how it gained attention i believe. That's what i meant with "source" ;-)
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.