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Even the IndieWeb website doesn’t do a great job of explaining what it is, or what it means to “join the IndieWeb”. As far as I can tell, it’s a collection of practices and technologies that connects independent blog-type websites together into a quasi social network.

In discussing micro.blog and the #indieweb, Jason makes a valid point which others, and myself, have echoed. Social networks are so ingrained, so easy and so obvious that people don't need to think about them. It's by design, of course - make them sticky, make them frictionless.

To have to put real effort into what you are doing and actually adopt a philosophy for how you engage on the web is further than many are willing to go without having a real sense of why they should or what benefits they might gain from it.

As much as the technology needs to be easy to use the rationale is, perhaps, more important.

The Social Web

Homebrew Website Club Baltimore

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@dajbelshaw Noterlive is primarily a posting interface to Twitter (mostly for livetweeting though it could continue to add some of that functionality in the future) that gives you back your data. You would still want to pay some attention to your account for side conversations and replies as well as other conference activity. In many cases I use it primarily as a note taking tool to keep content for archival purposes after the fact.

For additional two-way interaction you could use WordPress plugins like Webmention and Brid.gy Publish to get the comments, likes, etc. back to your website. I've outlined a piece of that type of workflow here: http://boffosocko.com/2017/04/15/mentions-from-twitter-to-my-website/ (This might also be useful to you if you've left Twitter, but still want to know when you're being mentioned without needing to log into Twitter to check it.)

Otherwise, you might also consider going full IndieWeb, in which case you could post everything directly from your website and syndicate to Twitter and then getting all the responses directly back to your site. Some of this depends on how much work you want to do to get the moving pieces working properly. You'll notice this is roughly what I'm doing on my own site with you now. Example: http://stream.boffosocko.com/2018/dajbelshaw-in-future-if-you-prefer-to-keep-your-content

@jgmac1106 I've often wondered about potential expanded vocabularies for microformats within the educational space. I know many use a variety of other metadata including schema and dublin core, but I've never really come across any application which consume these or do anything useful for them other than add an administrative tax to the user who are doing them. Perhaps we should begin documenting some of them to build a more long term valuable solution?
@jgmac1106 Perhaps we might create and use a corner of the IndieWeb wiki to begin documenting the use of these types of things? We could start on the https://indieweb.org/Indieweb_for_Education page and subsection them out as they grow in size and scope? If there are consuming applications for differing types of metadata, let's list those. The best answer may be to begin documenting pieces of what are out there and then figuring out a way to create more IndieWeb or decentralized and open versions of them. Having an editable, but centralized source of information can certainly be helpful. (Unless you know of another that already exists?)

Photography, Graves Disease, Insulin pumps and a lot of other things

Improving the h-card in Grav

I spent a little time fixing up the way this site presents my h-card on the summary of blog posts. In case you're wondering, an h-card is a way of presenting information about yourself or your organisation on your website that makes it easy for other websites to identify you with your work, for example in webmentions. More this way ...
There is also the counterpart: 'untag-of' posts (https://indieweb.org/untag) which are more of a brainstorm at this point, but I figured worth pointing out as a future enhancement, in case that helps generalize the code for 'tag-of' support.

Problem: currently you have to use Github’s web UI to remove a label from an issue.

If you could post an 'untag-of' response to a GitHub issue, and Bridgy Publish recognized that, it could call the GitHub API to (attempt to) remove the respective label from that issue.

The current brainstormed markup is similar to that for a 'tag-of' post, but with class name 'untag-of' instead.

Feedback and contributions welcome on https://indieweb.org/untag

Also reasonable to consider 'untag-of' support a potential future separate issue rather than as part of implementing 'tag-of' support.

Enhancement: Bridgy Publish to GitHub should POSSE tag-of posts to add labels to issues

@EatPodcast Thanks Jeremy, I've had a bear of a time with webmentions from pages, and in particular that one which has some issues with the nesting of author tags, thus making the webmentions appear to be coming from other people. Sorry to get your hopes up...
Reminder! @oktadev is buying drinks at tonight's Homebrew Microblog Meetup! 🍻🔜 https://indieweb.org/events/2018-04-18-homebrew-microblog Looking forward to meeting everyone tonight!
@sadlerjw You've certainly found a few of the remaining pain points within the broader community and specifically with WordPress. There are obviously some UI bits like properly threaded conversations across multiple syndicated silos that could be better. I've written a tad about how threaded comments work between sites using WordPress, though didn't touch on the idea of doing so also using Twitter or micro.blog: http://boffosocko.com/2017/12/15/threaded-replies-with-webmentions-in-wordpress/

Ideally in the end, everything would support Webmention and needing to syndicate to outside services would be somewhat moot.

As long as the conversation for something on micro.blog starts on your own site, the replies that occur there will generally flow back to your site via Webmention, but sadly one needs to use some manual chicanery to get a similar back and forth effect with other services like Twitter.

I suspect that in the coming months/year(s) things on this end will improve as the community marches forward.

Either way, congratulations on what you've done with you're site! Hope to see you around either via reader or micro.blog.

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?