"On this day..." reminded me that I set up my user page on indieweb.org exactly a year ago. I don't think I'd updated it since and it was sorely out of date. Fixed!
Can’t wait! IndieWeb Summit was one of my favorite events last year. Really looking forward to seeing what’s changed since last summer. More importantly, looking forward to catching up with everyone and hopefully meeting some new folks as well!
Yeah, that’s great to reduce mental pressure. The options already exist for each channel to either not track read/unread status, only show an unread indicator (the read dot in the screenshot) or to display unread counts. I actually find that not knowing the unread count in many cases creates MORE mental pressure because I don’t know how many are there. I do use it in select cases like the Saved and IndieWeb tweets channels.
Liked: Wrapping My Head Around Micro.blog and IndieWeb – JSON Writes...
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.
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
Improving the h-card in Grav
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.
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.