“In every case, the campaigns aimed to ape the style and habits of actual activists, and they caught on to the degree that they seemed human. The content didn’t need to be accurate or fair to be effective; it just needed to seem human, and humans with beating hearts are uniquely able to dispel the whiff of the uncanny from an automated script.” Social Media Makes Us Soldiers in the War Against Ourselves - Wired http://nzzl.us/KgufPgY#Indieweb
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Super awesome writeup of the iOS IndieWeb reader app "Indigenous" and Eddie's motivations for writing it! Love seeing more IndieWeb tools like this! https://eddiehinkle.com/2018/05/02/16/article/
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Twitter has blocked me because my live tweeting looked automated, and are asking me to respond to a phone number I don't have any more to unlock my account. I wonder if they can use the rel-me to this site to see that it is me and not a bot? #indieweb
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"text": "@cathieleblanc I can't find it now, but it seems like you made a comment the other day that led be to believe that this post/pencast might help you out a bit: http://boffosocko.com/2018/05/01/a-pencast-overview-with-audio-and-recorded-visual-diagrams-of-indieweb-technologies/",
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"text": "It's been a while!\n\n Baltimore's first Homebrew Website Club of May\u00a0met at the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center on May 1st!\n\nIn celebration of 5/01 aka HTTP 501 Not Implemented, we'll talk about things we\u00a0wish that our websites did, but that they don't yet do.\nHere are some notes from the \"broadcast\" portion of the meetup:\njonathanprozzi.net \u2013 Been working on lots of other projects. Did two work projects with GatsbyJS. One is deployed but not public. Learned a lot about GraphQL. Working on a handbook for youth training and trying to get a netlify CMS hooked up to it. Also did a small VueJS project to learn a bit more about it. Wants to use the WordPress API with some of these technologies on his site. 501 desire: going headless for his WordPress site because he is obsessed with PageSpeed.\nmaryreisenwitz.com \u2013 Been working on sites and content for work. Trying to capture FAQs about working at DHF in preparation for a couple of dozen new youth to start working here. Finds that good explanations uncover the need for more good explanations and lots of branching docs, as different youth employees will have different responsibilities. Excited about having this resource be a website. Wants to include a youth \"face book\" of names and faces so the new folks can recognize one another and existing staff. 501 desire: wants a web store on her main site, because Etsy is becoming frustrating. \nbouhmad.com \u2013 Set up SSL via LetsEncrypt and loves it, the easiest SSL setup he has ever done. Started a blog post about intrusion detection, kept adding to it, and pushed it out last week. Working on a piece about a bug bounty he recently collected, working with the company in question. 501 desire: a mailing list signup and a Hugo-driven RSS feed to a Mailchimp mailing list.\ngrant.codes \u2013 Visiting as he drives across the US! Restructuring his site's data on the backend. Was using something like mf2 data, but now moving to pure mf2. Broke a bunch of features doing that, so going through to fix those now. 501 desire: homepage mentions! He accepts but doesn't store or display them.\neddiehinkle.com\u00a0\u2013 Working on leaving Facebook! Has made a sign-up form for friends/family to sign up for monthly (for now) newsletter. Has a complex (too complex?) tagging for tech, personal, family to generate three RSS feeds. These can be subscribed to in any combination (so 9 possible feeds), and the emails will combine all posts in the desired feeds. The feeds themselves reuse markup that he wrote to make posts look good on micro.blog. Just posted monthly review for March and hopes to keep doing summaries. Uses the \"last month\" view on his site for the raw data. 501 desire: automated webmentions! His site is Jekyll-based, so that's a can of worms. Loves using Indigenous for the quick responses from the indie reader, but then has to go back to his site and manually send webmentions.\nmartymcgui.re\u00a0\u2013 Traveled recently and checked in everywhere using Swarm, which feeds back to his site (sorry anyone following feeds)! Really enjoyed it, but slightly regrets giving Swarm all that data. Thinks an app could use the Swarm venue API to do Micropub and skip creating the checkins on the server. 501 desire: unlisted posts! Really wants to make photo gallery posts where each photo has a permalink but only the gallery shows up in feeds. Eventually private posts, too.\nOther discussion:\n\n Grant's automated year-in-review feature. Cities visited, hours of TV, distance traveled (tracks GPS constantly).\n \n Ways to do hidden posts. Categories. Unlisted or private as a property.\n Email lists vs \"followers\" on social media and the feeling of reach.\n Facebook's reaction when you start mass deleting friends. Mary once deleted close to 700 people and found that the interface started rearranging itself, putting people back in the list where it's easy to mis-click and re-add them as a friend.\n Deleting your posts from Facebook. Does it affect the algorithm? What threats does it eliminate?\n Family signing up for email blasts: would they reply? What if those replies went to an address that turned them into a comment on your site? If their email address is in your nickname cache, you can show their name and photo and url.\nLeft-to-right: grant.codes, eddiehinkle.com, bouhmad.com, martymcgui.re, maryreisenwitz.com, jonathanprozzi.net. Photo courtesy grant.codes.\n Thanks to everybody who came out! We hope to see you all again at our next meeting on May 15th!",
"html": "<p>It's been a while!</p>\n<p>\n Baltimore's <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/events/2018-05-01-homebrew-website-club\">first Homebrew Website Club of May</a>\u00a0met at the <a href=\"https://www.digitalharbor.org/\">Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center</a> on May 1st!\n</p>\n<p>In celebration of 5/01 aka HTTP 501 Not Implemented, we'll talk about things we\u00a0wish that our websites did, but that they don't yet do.</p>\n<p>Here are some notes from the \"broadcast\" portion of the meetup:</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://jonathanprozzi.net/\">jonathanprozzi.net</a> \u2013 Been working on lots of other projects. Did two work projects with <a href=\"https://www.gatsbyjs.org\">GatsbyJS</a>. One is deployed but not public. Learned a lot about GraphQL. Working on a handbook for youth training and trying to get a <a href=\"https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms\">netlify CMS</a> hooked up to it. Also did a small <a href=\"https://vuejs.org/\">VueJS</a> project to learn a bit more about it. Wants to use the WordPress API with some of these technologies on his site. 501 desire: going headless for his WordPress site because he is obsessed with PageSpeed.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://maryreisenwitz.com/\">maryreisenwitz.com</a> \u2013 Been working on sites and content for work. Trying to capture FAQs about working at DHF in preparation for a couple of dozen new youth to start working here. Finds that good explanations uncover the need for more good explanations and lots of branching docs, as different youth employees will have different responsibilities. Excited about having this resource be a website. Wants to include a youth \"face book\" of names and faces so the new folks can recognize one another and existing staff. 501 desire: wants a web store on her main site, because Etsy is becoming frustrating. </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://bouhmad.com/\">bouhmad.com</a> \u2013 Set up SSL via <a href=\"https://letsencrypt.org/\">LetsEncrypt</a> and loves it, the easiest SSL setup he has ever done. Started a blog post about intrusion detection, kept adding to it, and pushed it out last week. Working on a piece about a bug bounty he recently collected, working with the company in question. 501 desire: a mailing list signup and a Hugo-driven RSS feed to a Mailchimp mailing list.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://grant.codes/\">grant.codes</a> \u2013 Visiting as he drives across the US! Restructuring his site's data on the backend. Was using something like mf2 data, but now moving to pure mf2. Broke a bunch of features doing that, so going through to fix those now. 501 desire: homepage mentions! He accepts but doesn't store or display them.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://eddiehinkle.com/\">eddiehinkle.com</a>\u00a0\u2013 Working on leaving Facebook! Has made a sign-up form for friends/family to sign up for monthly (for now) newsletter. Has a complex (too complex?) tagging for tech, personal, family to generate three RSS feeds. These can be subscribed to in any combination (so 9 possible feeds), and the emails will combine all posts in the desired feeds. The feeds themselves reuse markup that he wrote to make posts look good on micro.blog. Just posted monthly review for March and hopes to keep doing summaries. Uses the \"last month\" view on his site for the raw data. 501 desire: automated webmentions! His site is Jekyll-based, so that's a can of worms. Loves using Indigenous for the quick responses from the indie reader, but then has to go back to his site and manually send webmentions.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://martymcgui.re/\">martymcgui.re</a>\u00a0\u2013 Traveled recently and checked in everywhere using Swarm, which feeds back to his site (sorry anyone following feeds)! Really enjoyed it, but slightly regrets giving Swarm all that data. Thinks an app could use the Swarm venue API to do Micropub and skip creating the checkins on the server. 501 desire: unlisted posts! Really wants to make photo gallery posts where each photo has a permalink but only the gallery shows up in feeds. Eventually private posts, too.</p>\n<p>Other discussion:</p>\n<ul><li>\n Grant's automated year-in-review feature. Cities visited, hours of TV, distance traveled (tracks GPS constantly).\n </li>\n <li>Ways to do hidden posts. Categories. Unlisted or private as a property.</li>\n <li>Email lists vs \"followers\" on social media and the feeling of reach.</li>\n <li>Facebook's reaction when you start mass deleting friends. Mary once deleted close to 700 people and found that the interface started rearranging itself, putting people back in the list where it's easy to mis-click and re-add them as a friend.</li>\n <li>Deleting your posts from Facebook. Does it affect the algorithm? What threats does it eliminate?</li>\n <li>Family signing up for email blasts: would they reply? What if those replies went to an address that turned them into a comment on your site? If their email address is in your nickname cache, you can show their name and photo and url.</li>\n</ul><img src=\"https://aperture-media.p3k.io/media.martymcgui.re/cf5023a918ec656cdeeed5c32399cab06f9277a8126ff60e43c0ff2cc888f409.jpg\" alt=\"\" />Left-to-right: grant.codes, eddiehinkle.com, bouhmad.com, martymcgui.re, maryreisenwitz.com, jonathanprozzi.net. 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But the FAQ says that when I use the app or web those comments get stored seperatelly and are not send to my blog. Is there a technical reason why that is? Couldn't they been send via MicroPub to my blog?
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"text": "@manton I read http://help.micro.blog/2018/replies-and-mentions/ and am somehow conflicted, I'd like to own my replies too, and with normal IndieWeb I do, I have them in a special comments section: https://jeena.net/comments\n\nBut the FAQ says that when I use the app or web those comments get stored seperatelly and are not send to my blog. Is there a technical reason why that is? Couldn't they been send via MicroPub to my blog?",
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"text": "\u201cA handful of enormous tech companies curate the public library we conjure into existence every day, and they can and do delete it at a whim.\u201d https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/evanhill/silicon-valley-cant-be-trusted-with-our-history?utm_term=4... #Indieweb",
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“ I warned (at Blogtalk Downunder) that comments kill weblogs, and I was right. Facebook and Twitter are platforms for comments that dispense with the weblog; they give us all the disadvantages and keep all the profit.” http://www.markbernstein.org/Apr18/OnNotBlogging.html#indieweb
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“I spent some time this morning doing a dry run through setting up a suite of IndieWeb plugins on a fresh WordPress installation. Going off of a scant outline I talked for almost two hours describing IndieWeb functionality as I set it all up.”
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"url": "https://werd.io/2018/im-done-with-syndication-lets-help-people-be-themselves-on",
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"name": "I\u2019m done with syndication. Let\u2019s help people be themselves on the web.",
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"text": "The IndieWeb has long promoted the idea of POSSE: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, lots of platforms are re-evaluating their API policies.This is kind of rearranging the deck chairs on the privacy Titanic, because the problem was that all this data was collected in one place, not that there was an API that allowed third party apps to publish on a user\u2019s behalf. (To be fair, the publish API possibly enabled algorithmic propaganda / marketing campaigns to operate more efficiently.)Still, here we are. I think this is a good opportunity to reconsider how the independent social web thinks of itself. I\u2019ve long stopped syndicating posts to Twitter, and instead just post there directly. But I do try and post anything of substance on my blog.POSSE requires participation from the networks. I think it might be more effective to move all the value away: publish on your own site, and use independent readers like Woodwind or Newsblur to consume content. Forget using social networks as the conduit. Let\u2019s go full indie.The effect of independence is practical, not just ideological: if you publish on your own site, your words are much more likely to stand the test of time and still be online years later. Social networks come and go, adjust their policies, etc. And there\u2019s a business value to being able to point to a single space online that holds your body of thought and work.Back when I was working on Known, investors would ask about the supplier risk of being so heavily dependent on third party APIs to provide a lot of the core value. They were right. Time to stop trying to integrate, and to double down on helping people own their own identities online in a way that helps them achieve their goals.",
"html": "<p style=\"color:#454545;\">The IndieWeb has long promoted the idea of POSSE: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, lots of platforms are re-evaluating their API policies.</p><p style=\"color:#454545;\">This is kind of rearranging the deck chairs on the privacy Titanic, because the problem was that all this data was collected in one place, not that there was an API that allowed third party apps to publish on a user\u2019s behalf. (To be fair, the publish API possibly enabled algorithmic propaganda / marketing campaigns to operate more efficiently.)</p><p style=\"color:#454545;\">Still, here we are. I think this is a good opportunity to reconsider how the independent social web thinks of itself. I\u2019ve long stopped syndicating posts to Twitter, and instead just post there directly. But I do try and post anything of substance on my blog.</p><p style=\"color:#454545;\">POSSE requires participation from the networks. I think it might be more effective to move all the value away: publish on your own site, and use independent readers like Woodwind or Newsblur to consume content. Forget using social networks as the conduit. Let\u2019s go full indie.</p><p style=\"color:#454545;\">The effect of independence is practical, not just ideological: if you publish on your own site, your words are much more likely to stand the test of time and still be online years later. Social networks come and go, adjust their policies, etc. And there\u2019s a business value to being able to point to a single space online that holds your body of thought and work.</p><p style=\"color:#454545;\">Back when I was working on Known, investors would ask about the supplier risk of being so heavily dependent on third party APIs to provide a lot of the core value. They were right. Time to stop trying to integrate, and to double down on helping people own their own identities online in a way that helps them achieve their goals.</p>"
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"name": "Ben Werdm\u00fcller",
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