Hey there! M.b does support webmentions, just not 100%. There are definitely more improvements @manton can (and has expressed a desire) to make. Unfortunately, every feature has to be prioritized 🙂 This has the current info on what is working for webmentions: http://help.micro.blog/2017/webmention/
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Homebrew Website Club returns! Come on out and work on your personal website, or learn more about how to escape the social media silos by building something of your own!
We’ll have updates about the recent IndieWeb Summit, a return of webrings, and much more!
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I think something like Slack’s reactions could be great. It lines up with something we’ve been experimenting with in the IndieWeb as “reacji”. Essentially they are replies with just a single emoji under the hood. But in processing and UIs we can think of them as reactions. I find Slack’s approach very beneficial.
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There’s a new Micro Monday podcast episode out! “Eli Mellen, an art historian and printmaker turned web developer, talks to Jean about…” LiveJournal, the IndieWeb, 🕸️💍, Micro.wiki, and more.
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Over the past couple of days I've noticed a problem when posting a comment on the blog.
The comment is submitted but you are not directed back to the post. No follow-up actions occur either such as sending a webmention where appropriate or mailing me to advise that a comment has been submitted.
After checking, I saw the site is generating a 405 error in wp-comments-post.php which checks that the request method is POST and fails if the method doesn't match.
I'm not sure when it started but I think it might have coincided with the update to WordPress 4.9.7.
I tried disabling a number of plugins and custom functions to no avail. Searches revealed that this is a relatively common issue with some saying it relates to a problem sending emails from WordPress. I turned off the email notification options in Discussion Settings and comments started working.
Email is definitely the issue. I've tried a couple of SMTP plugins instead of relying on defaults but get the same error so I don't know what's actually causing it.
I've left the email notifications off for now so that things work until I can find the cause. There may, consequently, be a delay in me responding or reacting to comments.
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"I doubt if the blogosphere of 2018 is smaller in absolute terms than the blogosphere of the early 2000s. In fact I'm pretty sure it's orders of magnitude larger...
What changed is we lost the center."
The emergence of social networks as a driving force on the internet gave people quicker, easier ways to make a point, connect and have conversations. Blogs still existed but became isolated, the strands that wove them together as more of a community unraveled.
Things have been getting better:
a backlash in some quarters
the indieweb movement seeking to facilitate cross-talk using technologies like webmentions
micro.blog aiming to get people focused on blogging again
But it is still too easy to jump on your social platform of choice rather than have discussions via blogs.
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"text": "Liked: Scripting News: What became of the blogosphere?...\n\n \"I doubt if the blogosphere of 2018 is smaller in absolute terms than the blogosphere of the early 2000s. In fact I'm pretty sure it's orders of magnitude larger...\n What changed is we lost the center.\"\n\nThe emergence of social networks as a driving force on the internet gave people quicker, easier ways to make a point, connect and have conversations. Blogs still existed but became isolated, the strands that wove them together as more of a community unraveled.\nThings have been getting better:\na backlash in some quarters\nthe indieweb movement seeking to facilitate cross-talk using technologies like webmentions\nmicro.blog aiming to get people focused on blogging again\nBut it is still too easy to jump on your social platform of choice rather than have discussions via blogs."
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If you’re familiar with OAuth, this introduction to IndieAuth walks through the process of how auth for the open web works. Really happy that Micro.blog supports this now.
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"html": "<p>In my talk at Peers Conference earlier this year I closed with this quote from Brent Simmons:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n Micro.blog is not an alternative silo: instead, it\u2019s what you build when you believe that <em>the web itself</em> is the great social network.\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking more about Brent\u2019s post since then, and so for the keynote that Jean and I gave at <a href=\"http://www.manton.org/2018/06/indieweb-summit-2018-wrap-up.html\">IndieWeb Summit last week</a> I wanted to start with that quote. Many people have written nice testimonials about Micro.blog, but this one really seems to capture the goal.</p>\n\n<p>It should come as no surprise that I liked <a href=\"http://inessential.com/2018/02/01/why_micro_blog_is_not_another_app_net\">Brent\u2019s full post from February about why Micro.blog isn\u2019t like App.net</a>. He made the case even better than I usually do, about how the web is more important than any one platform:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n But if you think of the years 1995-2005, you remember when the web was our social network: blogs, comments on blogs, feed readers, and services such as Flickr, Technorati, and BlogBridge to glue things together. Those were great years \u2014 but then a few tragedies happened: Google Reader came out, and then, almost <em>worse</em>, it went away. Worse still was the rise of Twitter and Facebook, when we decided it would be okay to give up ownership and let just a couple companies own our communication.\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Micro.blog is one of the first platforms to focus on domain names that decouple the timeline from post storage. Anyone can post a Micro.blog-hosted site at their own domain name today and move it all somewhere else tomorrow. It\u2019s a simple, IndieWeb-friendly architecture that we think is essential to the next phase of the web.</p>",
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"html": "<p>After posting about <a href=\"http://www.manton.org/2018/06/indieweb-summit-2018-wrap-up.html\">my time at IndieWeb Summit</a> and <a href=\"http://www.manton.org/2018/06/indiebookclub.html\">the new IndieBookClub support</a>, let me give some more details on what IndieAuth means for Micro.blog. I spent the second day of IndieWeb Summit working on this, and it has now been rolled out to all Micro.blog users. (If you haven\u2019t posted in the last few days, after your next post your microblog will be updated with the new authorization endpoints.)</p>\n\n<p>IndieAuth lets you sign in to other apps using your own domain name. If Micro.blog is hosting a blog for you, you can use that custom domain or your subdomain like yourname.micro.blog to sign in.</p>\n\n<p>While this was possible before with extra configuration to delegate auth to another service, Micro.blog can now be an IndieAuth provider on its own. It\u2019s much easier for IndieWeb apps to work with Micro.blog.</p>\n\n<p>Here are some apps that work great with Micro.blog:</p>\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://quill.p3k.io/\">Quill</a>: web-based interface for posting to your microblog.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://ownyourgram.com/\">OwnYourGram</a>: automatically post your Instagram photos to your microblog.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://ownyourswarm.p3k.io/\">OwnYourSwarm</a>: automatically post your Swarm check-ins to your microblog.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://indiebookclub.biz/\">IndieBookClub</a>: post what books you're reading or want to read.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://omnibear.com/\">Omnibear</a>: Chrome or Firefox extension for quick posting.</li>\n<li><a>IndieWeb Ring</a>: wait\u2026 <a href=\"http://help.micro.blog/2018/web-rings/\">what?</a></li>\n</ul><p>I\u2019m really happy with the progress over the last week because it makes Micro.blog-hosted sites more useful. As I mentioned in my IndieWeb Summit keynote, the business model for Micro.blog is aligned with what users need. If you pay for Micro.blog hosting, we\u2019ll keep making it better without worrying about ads or other user-hostile distractions.</p>",
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Slow start for me this morning. Luckily my Airbnb left a Stumptown cold brew coffee in the fridge. Catching up on support email before heading over to IndieWeb Summit day 2.
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IndieAuth, the extension to OAuth 2.0, was developed by Aaron Parecki and implemented by multiple people in the IndieWeb community, including myself.
The problem has been that people conflated it with the service Aaron created as a reference implementation, which implemented IndieAuth for people who didn’t have it by using the OAuth services of sites like Twitter and Github to bootstrap the service.
Aaron succeeds here in finally conveying a point it took me a long time to understand, and partially only by reading and implementing one of these.
Was pleased to see the founder of Home Assistant, a product I use, tweeting that he would adopt this in that product. Looking forward to seeing what people come up with.
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