@nim here with an account of teaching a room full of people to make art sites with basic HTML in the former back room of a Lady Footlocker in 2025. https://ideastore.dev/blog/The-Rad-Web/ The radness was greatly enhanced by code and work of @glitchdotcom @stefan @spencerchang and @eleventy #indieweb #webart #ladyfootlocker #octothorpes

"Octothorpes are hashtags and backlinks that can be used on regular websites, connecting pages across the open internet, regardless of where they're hosted. A page that's tagged or hashtagged will show you the pages on a single domain with the same tag, but a page that's octothorped will show you the pages with the same tag across an unlimited number of domains."

You can use #hashtags on Bear blogs now. https://octothorpes.bearblog.dev/you-can-use-hashtags-on-your-bear-blog-now/ #bearblog #octothorpes #indieweb

We finally have a decent about page! https://octothorp.es/about #hashtags #octothorpes #explainyourself

I figured out conditionally adding @octothorpes.bsky.social tags to my 11ty blog posts! I can add an "octothorpes" field followed by a list of tags, and those will appear in the correct HTML, or if I leave out that field, no tags. #11ty #Coding #Programming #WebDev #Blog #IndieWeb #Octothorpes

I figured out conditionally adding @octothorpes tags to my blog posts in Eleventy! I can simply add an "octothorpes" field followed by a list of tags, and those will appear in the correct HTML, or if I leave out that field, no tags.

For example, one of my posts shows up under this tag: https://octothorp.es/~/Audio

Stoked to announce our first new core feature since we launched: a webring web component! Since #octothorpes get registered with an Octothorpes Ring, that means you’re automatically on a #webring if you’re using octothorpes. So each Ring hosts a web component that lets you put a classic webring browser on your page. See it in action here https://demo.ideastore.dev/webring-component #webrings #webcomponents

Octothorpes Protocol: like #instagram #hashtags but for a collection of independent #websites

#Learn more about #Octothorpes #project #launched recently

I can #tag my #web pages like #blog posts with special <a> tags and get listed on a public Octothorpe #server and my other friends in the same #webring can know about my posts and shared links using #rss #rssfeed

https://saman.bearblog.dev/octothorpes-protocol-hashtags-for-the-open-web

@nim

@nk

Small but exciting (to us) milestone -- we've started on the first two items on our current roadmap -- Harmonizers and a web component for easily embedding a Web Ring navigator on your page. https://github.com/orgs/stucco-software/projects/3/views/1?pane=issue&itemId=83693608&issue=stucco-software%7Coctothorp.es%7C50 and https://github.com/orgs/stucco-software/projects/3/views/1?pane=issue&itemId=87717444&issue=stucco-software%7Coctothorp.es%7C66
#octothorpes

Loved reading this recap of #weirdweboctober from @heygeorgie. You were truly one of the power-posters for WWO. It was so fun to see your pages show up in the feed for the WWO #octothorpes every day. https://aus.social/@heygeorgie/113416668391144892

here's my little post reflecting on weird web october. i had fun :-)
https://ribo.zone/blog/weird-web-october-2024

Hi Fediverse, we're Octothorpes. #octothorpes are hashtags (and backlinks and more!) that you can use on regular websites. So platformless hashtags for the open web. We've just launched a public beta -- find out more at https://octothorp.es/ratbike and https://octothorp.es/~/octothorpe-news

@octothorpean hey! thanks for tootin about us. dig your name! We're starting a public trial soon if you're interested in trying Octothorpes on your blog. #octothorpes

When we launch #octothorpes we want to make sure that we never end up in a situation like #wordpress is right now, where years of community trust are wiped out by an erratic and irrational founder. So it's my great pleasure to announce that we're transferring ownership to Elvira and Frankenstein, so any community that grows around our product will learn to expect erratic and irrational decisions from the start.

You'd think that, as someone working on a hashtag-based project, having written a book based on a hashtag, I'd have remembered to put #octothorpes on that project for the #hashtag themed day for #weirdweboctober on the day, but you'd be wrong. Anyway they're there now -- https://www.letstalkaboutpaintings.com