When you setup your site with Bridgy Fed^1, it creates a dashboard with a form for others to follow you site. E.g. mine: https://fed.brid.gy/user/tantek.com

Copying that Follow form to your site sets up cross-instance following directly from your #IndieWeb site!

Starting with the Follow form markup on the dashboard, copy it and make any necessary changes for its HTML & CSS to fit in with your own, e.g.

<form method="post" action="https://fed.brid.gy/remote-follow">
 <label for="follow-address">🐘 Follow
  <kbd>@tantek.com@tantek.com</kbd>:<br />
  enter your @-@ fediverse address:</label>
 <input id="follow-address" name="address" type="text" required="required"
        placeholder="@you@instance.social" alt="fediverse address" value="" />
 <input name="domain" type="hidden" value="tantek.com" />
 <button type="submit">Follow</button>
</form>

After adding the Follow form to my site, I added more instructions and screenshots to the IndieWeb wiki to hopefuly enable more developers to setup Follow buttons:
* https://indieweb.org/Bridgy_Fed#How_to_add_a_follow_form

See that section for a sample rendering of the form, and what happens when someone else clicks the Follow button on your site while they’re logged into a Mastodon instance.

They get prompted to FOLLOW you, and when they click that button, they get a follow confirmation.

A functioning cross-instance “Follow” button is one step closer to a universal cross-site “Follow button”.


This is day 19 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days, written the night after.

← Day 18: https://tantek.com/2023/019/t5/reply-domain-above-address-and-silo
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^1 https://tantek.com/2023/008/t7/bridgy-indieweb-posse-backfeed
#IndieWeb #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days
When you setup your site with Bridgy Fed^1, it creates a dashboard with a form for others to follow you site. E.g. mine: fed.brid.gy/user/tantek.com Copying that Follow form to your site sets up cross-instance following directly from your #IndieWeb site! ... tantek.com/t5Nx2

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This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition • January 14th - 20th, 2023

#podcast #IndieWeb #this-week-indieweb-podcast
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Snooze buttons breed Lazy Behavior #smallpoems
Instead of posting on a personal #IndieWeb site (& POSSE copies), some post primarily to a #fediverse instance and syndicate to Twitter, or vice-versa. How to reply^1 to such posts, e.g.: Reply to a toot (& POSSE tweet): tantek.com/2023/019/t4 * @-@ (... tantek.com/t5Nw5
Instead of posting on a personal #IndieWeb site (& POSSE copies), some post primarily to a #fediverse instance and syndicate to Twitter, or vice-versa. How to reply^1 to such posts, e.g.:

Reply to a toot (& POSSE tweet): https://tantek.com/2023/019/t4
* @-@ (Twitter @-name)

This is a variant of case (2) in https://tantek.com/2023/018/t1/elevate-indieweb-above-silo.

We can update the directive and two questions in that post accordingly:

* Elevate #IndieWeb domains above @-@ addresses, and those above any silo identities

1. Do they have an #IndieWeb domain? Then @-domain mention them^2, like you are speaking to them at their domain identity. This will notify them there, or at least reinforce their domain’s importance.

2. Was their post only published on a #fediverse instance (and/or silo), or was it POSSEd to a fediverse instance (and/or silo) and do you plan to federate (and/or POSSE) your reply^3?
Then use their @-@ address or silo @-name, or @-@ (silo @-name) for both, or (@-@, silo @-name) parenthetically following their @-domain if (1). This will notify them on that instance (or silo), and may help thread your POSSE reply.

When posting a reply, you (or your CMS automatically) should explicitly link with u-in-reply-to markup^4 to the post your are replying to, and any of its syndicated copy permalinks on destinations you plan to POSSE your reply (see also multi-reply^5).
 

This is day 18 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days, written the day after.

← Day 17: https://tantek.com/2023/018/t1/elevate-indieweb-above-silo
→ 🔮


^1 https://tantek.com/2023/017/t1/socialweb-blogs-reply-comment-post
^2 https://tantek.com/2023/011/t1/indieweb-evolving-at-mention
^3 https://tantek.com/2023/015/t1/publish-indieweb-decide-distribute
^4 https://indieweb.org/in-reply-to
^5 https://indieweb.org/multiple-reply
#IndieWeb #fediverse #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days
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