Awesome, I’ll get this added to Indigenous’ Microsub help page! Thanks for helping create more Microsub Server options 😁
Webmention enables a LOT of possibilities, at the root it is just a decentralized notification from one website to another. Currently, the best and most common use case is social media style responses (replies, likes, emoji reactions, and listen posts).
That’s a tough decision. I can see both sides. On one side, it’s not too difficult to add an “-x” to the properties in the Micropub servers. On the other side, it seems like leaving it the same until the standard is the simplest step.
Sorry I’m not much help, but I can understand the catch-22.
Thanks for writing this up. The standard is stable enough to be used daily but as you said, the features to make the apps (including Indigenous for iOS, which I am developing) excel are still in development. I’ve been able to implement some of what you mentioned (mark posts as read/unread), but others are still on my list of things to tackle (sorting, filtering, etc). I think two things are needed to get where we need to be: 1) all Microsub developers need to use it daily (I’m pretty sure we all do) and 2) People that try it out need to write blog posts just like this one so that we see where we need to improve and iterate.
Thanks for trying Microsub out. Hopefully it won’t be too long before it supports the features you need! 🙂
I tried very hard in that book, when it came to social media, to be platform agnostic, to emphasize that social media sites come and go, and to always invest first and foremost in your own media (website, blog, etc.) and mailing list.
I still stand by that advice, but if I re-wrote the book now, I would encourage artists to use much more caution when it comes to using social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Yeah, I think from the micro.blog side of things it makes sense to hide it from the UI. From the IndieWeb side of things, I think over the next year we’ll see expansion into follower lists to help readers, recommendations and the vouch system. For this reason, I think data wise keeping the full follower list is important.
In fact, that reply (and this reply) was sent into Micro.blog system via webmention from my website.
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/