diff --git a/.env b/.env
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fec48fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# --- Required ---
+SITE_URL=https://blog.giersig.eu
+SITE_NAME="giersig."
+AUTHOR_NAME=svemagie
+
+# --- Optional but recommended ---
+SITE_DESCRIPTION="A personal IndieWeb home. Long reads and loose notes, links and hunches, experiments in writing and thinking. My corner of the internet. Unsponsored, unoptimized, mine."
+AUTHOR_BIO="pedestrian sociologist, mostly harmless"
+AUTHOR_EMAIL="svemagie@anche.no"
+AUTHOR_LOCATION=""
+
+# --- Social feeds (enables auto-fetching) ---
+SITE_SOCIAL="Fedify|https://blog.giersig.eu/activitypub/users/svemagie|activitypub,GitHub|https://github.com/svemagie|github,IndieWeb|https://indieweb.org/User:Blog.giersig.eu|indieweb"
+GITHUB_USERNAME=svemagie
+MASTODON_INSTANCE=
+MASTODON_USER=svemagie
+BLUESKY_HANDLE=svemagie
+
+# --- ActivityPub (IndieKit) ---
+ACTIVITYPUB_HANDLE=svemagie
+
+# --- Optional extras ---
+AUTHOR_AVATAR="https://blog.giersig.eu/images/cy-me2.webp"
+AUTHOR_TITLE=
+AUTHOR_PRONOUN=
+SITE_LOCALE=de
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index 2ccd00a..d0abe46 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -3,26 +3,30 @@
 
 # --- Required ---
 SITE_URL=https://blog.giersig.eu
-SITE_NAME=Sven Giersig
-AUTHOR_NAME=Sven Giersig
+SITE_NAME="giersig.""
+AUTHOR_NAME=svemagie
 
 # --- Optional but recommended ---
-SITE_DESCRIPTION=Svens Personal IndieWeb blog
-AUTHOR_BIO=pedestrian sociologist
-AUTHOR_EMAIL=svemagie@anche.no
-AUTHOR_LOCATION=
+SITE_DESCRIPTION="A personal IndieWeb home. Long reads and loose notes, links and hunches, experiments in writing and thinking. My corner of the internet. Unsponsored, unoptimized, mine."
+AUTHOR_BIO="pedestrian sociologist"
+AUTHOR_EMAIL="svemagie@anche.no"
+AUTHOR_LOCATION=""
 
 # --- Social feeds (enables auto-fetching) ---
+SITE_SOCIAL="Fedify|https://blog.giersig.eu/activitypub/users/svemagie|activitypub,GitHub|https://github.com/svemagie|github,IndieWeb|https://indieweb.org/User:Blog.giersig.eu|indieweb"
 GITHUB_USERNAME=svemagie
-MASTODON_INSTANCE=https://mastodon.social
+#MASTODON_INSTANCE=https://blog.giersig.eu
+#MASTODON_USER=svemagie
+#BLUESKY_HANDLE=
+MASTODON_INSTANCE=
 MASTODON_USER=
 BLUESKY_HANDLE=
 
 # --- ActivityPub (IndieKit) ---
-ACTIVITYPUB_HANDLE=
+ACTIVITYPUB_HANDLE=svemagie
 
 # --- Optional extras ---
-AUTHOR_AVATAR=/images/avatar.jpg
+AUTHOR_AVATAR="https://blog.giersig.eu/images/avatar.jpg"
 AUTHOR_TITLE=
 AUTHOR_PRONOUN=
 SITE_LOCALE=de
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 59c0e0e..9cda571 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,13 +9,6 @@ css/style.css
 # Cache
 .cache/
 
-# Environment variables (never commit!)
-.env
-*.env.local
-*.env.*.local
-env.sh
-env.sh.*
-
 # Content (symlinked at runtime)
 content/
 uploads/