An Introduction to the IndieWeb

A thorough run-down of the whys and wherefores of being part of the indie web, from Chris.

#indieweb #personal #publishing #ownership #silos #control #freedom #posse
Upon reconsideration, I retract my suggestion in https://github.com/microformats/microformats2-parsing/issues/10#issuecomment-331511675 that "this issue's resolution should depend on resolving #9 first", and commented on how to orthogonally resolve issue #9 (http://tantek.com/2018/107/t1).

As promised in https://github.com/microformats/microformats2-parsing/issues/10#issuecomment-331499024, I’ve added PROPOSED text inline in the u-* parsing section per the proposal of this issue: http://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=microformats2-parsing&diff=66782&oldid=66724.

I see github.com/aaronpk’s agreement with this proposal, and would like to see at least one, preferably 2-3, more parser developer(s) explicitly agreeing as well.

We also need to see this proposed change prototyped in at least one parser to make sure it is implementable (seems like it) and to see if there are any unintended consequences.

My micropub client works for the actual note, but location data isn’t being sent with the request. ☹️

I really enjoy these development logs. I think you’ve inspired me to start doing them for my own app, Indigenous, which is more IndieWeb focused but will support micro.blog kind of as a sibling relationship.

Episode 1: Leaving Facebook?

“the Twitter system doesn’t recognize that it’s encouraging people to follow additional extremist accounts, and Facebook’s Groups engine doesn’t understand why directing conspiracy theorists to new conspiracy communities is possibly a bad idea.” https://www.wired.com/story/creating-ethical-recommendation-engines/ #Indieweb

An indie reader (I probably shouldn’t have used caps. Haha) is an attempt at getting the Facebook/Twitter like experience into feed readers. So that one can control what content they read and yet enjoy the reply/like/save functionality that exists in modern social media. This page provides some additional info: https://indieweb.org/reader

I found that I have so many channels in my IndieReader that it was starting to create stress when I opened it. So I’m testing out viewing only channels with new content. Eventually this will be a filter setting you can quickly switch back and forth between
#indieweb #reader #microsub

FYI in terms of easy and iOS. One option on Jekyll or Wordpress is Micropub (https://indieweb.org/Micropub). Wordpress has plugins and Jekyll has options (https://indieweb.org/Jekyll). Then you can use Indigenous (https://indieweb.org/Indigenous_for_iOS) to post

By replying on my site, I am using @schnarfed's service to collect tweeted responses, then both his service and my site have cached copies of the reply and the name photo and url of the responder. @ade_oshineye could do that with webmention.herokuapp.com on his static site too.

It’s a Journey

Awesome! Those are some great updates! Especially the automatic webmentions (something I want to do soon) and the h-card embedded of person tags.

The IndieAuth plugin update I was writing about last week finally got released to the WordPress repository. It’s a great development for the community. You can now use your website to log into a variety of different services.

Site Updates: automatic webmentions, person tags, better reply image handling

#site-update #webmention #person-tag

This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition • April 7th - 13th, 2018

#podcast #IndieWeb #this-week-indieweb-podcast
“ By focusing on growth and growth only, and ignoring the problems, they amassed a large set of cultural norms on their platforms that stem from harassment or abuse or bad behavior.” http://nzzl.us/XPMlGI3 #Indieweb
Seriously tho, @Netflix should option Kill Process and release it as The Social Network 2. #indieweb #facebook #tomo /cc @hertling
#indieweb #facebook #tomo
Don't forget: Next week is the Homebrew Microblog Meetup in Portland! 💬🍻 Thanks to @oktadev for sponsoring drinks! https://indieweb.org/events/2018-04-18-homebrew-microblog
#indieweb #microblog

Change for a time

One of the difficulties of trying to be IndieWeb is that because there is no One True Way, only a set of useful building blocks, lovingly assembled, when something isn't working well it can be hard to know which bit is responsible for what. I had that problem recently with micro.blog waiting a long time before a post here appeared there. Then today, a post I published this morning popped up on micro.blog, and I had time to think about fixing things. It was trivial, but I fixed it. Here's how. More this way ...

Indieweb and webmentions. Posts originate on my site, then syndicate to Twitter. I’m replying from my site to your tweet now. 🙂