Kevin Marks known.kevinmarks.com/profile/kevinmarks

In social networks we become code.

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        "text": "#Indieweb\n                         #xoxofest",
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The way out

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        "html": "<p>There have been many articles written in the last month about the role of social networks. Some even reach the obvious conclusion: that the top social networks are too big. <a href=\"https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/google-and-facebook-are-regulating-speech-by-booting-alex-jones-and-their-power-to-do-so-is-a-problem.html\">This interview on Slate</a> was fairly representative, covering monopolies and centralized power.</p>\n\n<p>But these articles always stop short before hitting on a solution. They always wrap up saying \u201cit\u2019s tough to solve this\u201d.</p>\n\n<p>I think there are 4 parts to finding our way out of this mess with massive social networks:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Better features:</strong> We should be careful before copying everything from Twitter. I don\u2019t want to take features that failed us and recreate them in a new environment. Micro.blog <a href=\"http://help.micro.blog/2018/twitter-differences/\">leaves out features on purpose</a> that we think undermine a healthy community.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Open standards:</strong> When I first stopped tweeting 6 years ago, it was largely because of the developer-hostile attitude from Twitter. Proprietary APIs reinforce the lock-in with content silos. This is why so much of Micro.blog is based on <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a> standards. It\u2019s why Mastodon uses APIs like ActivityPub.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Content ownership:</strong> Controlling the writing and photos you post online isn\u2019t about open source or the technical experience to run a server. It\u2019s about using domain names for identity, so that you can move your data in the future without breaking URLs. I\u2019ve written <a href=\"http://manton.org/2018/03/23/indieweb-generation-and.html\">more about this here</a> and it\u2019s a fundamental part of the book I\u2019m writing about microblogging.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Smaller social networks:</strong> Many people are looking for \u201cthe next Twitter\u201d, but it\u2019s not enough to replace Twitter with a new platform and new leadership. Some problems are inevitable when power is concentrated in only 2-3 huge social networks \u2014 ad-based businesses at odds with user needs and an overwhelming curation challenge. This might be Mastodon\u2019s greatest contribution: getting people used to the idea of many smaller, interoperable communities.</p>\n\n<p>There\u2019s not only one solution. I think platforms like Micro.blog and Mastodon each have a role to play and can be complementary. Mastodon helps by encouraging smaller social networks, distributing the task of moderation, but doesn\u2019t prioritize content ownership. (An account on an instance like Mastodon.social has no more ownership of its content than an account on Twitter. Both let you export your data but both live at someone else\u2019s domain name.)</p>\n\n<p>If you are frustrated with the state of social networks, I recommend blogging more. I love seeing new blogs <a href=\"http://manton.org/2018/09/05/starting-a-new.html\">and photo blogs</a> just as we\u2019re having a serious debate in the mainstream about social networks. The way out isn\u2019t easy, but there\u2019s a clear path waiting for us to take it.</p>",
        "text": "There have been many articles written in the last month about the role of social networks. Some even reach the obvious conclusion: that the top social networks are too big. This interview on Slate was fairly representative, covering monopolies and centralized power.\n\nBut these articles always stop short before hitting on a solution. They always wrap up saying \u201cit\u2019s tough to solve this\u201d.\n\nI think there are 4 parts to finding our way out of this mess with massive social networks:\n\nBetter features: We should be careful before copying everything from Twitter. I don\u2019t want to take features that failed us and recreate them in a new environment. Micro.blog leaves out features on purpose that we think undermine a healthy community.\n\nOpen standards: When I first stopped tweeting 6 years ago, it was largely because of the developer-hostile attitude from Twitter. Proprietary APIs reinforce the lock-in with content silos. This is why so much of Micro.blog is based on IndieWeb standards. It\u2019s why Mastodon uses APIs like ActivityPub.\n\nContent ownership: Controlling the writing and photos you post online isn\u2019t about open source or the technical experience to run a server. It\u2019s about using domain names for identity, so that you can move your data in the future without breaking URLs. I\u2019ve written more about this here and it\u2019s a fundamental part of the book I\u2019m writing about microblogging.\n\nSmaller social networks: Many people are looking for \u201cthe next Twitter\u201d, but it\u2019s not enough to replace Twitter with a new platform and new leadership. Some problems are inevitable when power is concentrated in only 2-3 huge social networks \u2014 ad-based businesses at odds with user needs and an overwhelming curation challenge. This might be Mastodon\u2019s greatest contribution: getting people used to the idea of many smaller, interoperable communities.\n\nThere\u2019s not only one solution. I think platforms like Micro.blog and Mastodon each have a role to play and can be complementary. Mastodon helps by encouraging smaller social networks, distributing the task of moderation, but doesn\u2019t prioritize content ownership. (An account on an instance like Mastodon.social has no more ownership of its content than an account on Twitter. Both let you export your data but both live at someone else\u2019s domain name.)\n\nIf you are frustrated with the state of social networks, I recommend blogging more. I love seeing new blogs and photo blogs just as we\u2019re having a serious debate in the mainstream about social networks. The way out isn\u2019t easy, but there\u2019s a clear path waiting for us to take it."
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        "html": "<p>Two meetups to check out today if you\u2019re in Portland! <a href=\"http://tantek.com/2018/249/t4/xoxo-indieweb-mastodon-meetup\">IndieWeb</a> (10-noon at Cup &amp; Bar) and our <a href=\"http://macgenie.micro.blog/2018/08/31/195016.html\">Micro Meetup</a> (5-7pm at Von Ebert Brewing \u2014 <a href=\"https://micro.blog/macgenie\">@macgenie</a> and <a href=\"https://micro.blog/cheesemaker\">@cheesemaker</a> will be there at 3:30pm). Everyone\u2019s welcome!</p>",
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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        "text": "going to the Friday XOXO #indieweb / #mastodon meetup!\n10-12:00 Cup & Bar, 118 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd\n\nJoin us for coffee & chat about independent websites, like how to replace #socialmedia use with your personal site!\n\n#openweb #dweb #fediverse",
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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        "text": "went to last night\u2019s #IndieWeb Pre-XOXO Meetup @VEBrewing and caught up with @aaronpk @kevinmarks @mattl Doug and David!\n\nhttps://aaronparecki.com/2018/09/05/5/",
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Eddie Hinkle eddiehinkle.com

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        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club\">Homebrew Website Club</a> this evening in Austin. Join us at Mozart\u2019s Coffee (6:30pm - 7:30pm) to chat about the IndieWeb. Also a good time to work on your own web site or ask questions about Micro.blog.</p>",
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Hello, end of summer

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Chris Aldrich stream.boffosocko.com/profile/chrisaldrich

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Ryan Barrett snarfed.org

I don’t hang out on the internet

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        "text": "I use Facebook. Not a ton, but I use it. I tweet, I Instagram, I read blogs. I do much of my work on GitHub. I\u2019m on mailing lists, IRC channels, StackOverflow. Not LinkedIn, but that\u2019s an exception. I say all this to show that I spend plenty of time on the Internet. More than my fair share.\nAnd yet. If I hang out with people on the Internet, I generally already know them in real life. This puts me a bit at odds with online communities like open source, the IndieWeb, and others. I participate in them a bit, but I sometimes find it hard to relate to their needs and interests. They\u2019re online communities, and I don\u2019t really\u2026commune\u2026online.\nThis is not remarkable. For most people, it\u2019s actually the norm, although that\u2019s changing quickly as the more and more of the world gets online. We\u2019re well past the halfway point! It\u2019s a bit unusual for nerds like me, though, since discovering the internet has long been a rite of passage for us.\n\n\nWell before the web and social networks, a goth kid didn\u2019t have to feel different or weird or alone. They could borrow their parent\u2019s computer, dial up a BBS, post a forum, and find goth compatriots. A gay kid deep in the Bible belt could sign up for AOL or Prodigy or CompuServe, join a chat room, and hear that they\u2019re not broken or sick. That it gets better. And a scrawny downtrodden geek with two left feet and coke bottle glasses could find a dog-eared copy of K&R C, follow the bread crumb trail to *nix newsgroups, stumble onto Linus\u2019s famous post introducing Linux, and discover her calling in life.\nThis is the great, techno-utopian vision of the hippie tech community of the \u201970s and \u201980s. Many of us in tech today are still following the echoes of foundational projects from this era: the Whole Earth catalog and the WELL (Stewart Brand et al), WIRED Magazine (Kevin Kelly et al), the Internet Archive (Brewster Kahle and John Perry Barlow), the Homebrew Computer Club, GNU (Richard Stallman), Xerox PARC and the Mother of All Demos (Douglas Engelbart et al). They set the stage for connecting the world across time, place, and boundaries of all kinds.\nThe next generation, the Gen-X-ers after hippie tech, grew up with computers. They got online as kids, or in junior high or high school. They ended up on early chat rooms and mailing lists. They learned HTML, wrote calculators in JavaScript, tested them in Netscape. They discovered sites like Metafilter and BoingBoing, found their way to (or created) LiveJournal and Blogger and MovableType, and made their own blogs. They pioneered the blogosphere and early social networks, federated them, and now criticize them at real world meetups like XOXOFest. They championed creativity, acceptance, and especially online communities, the natural extension of hippie tech.\nI love this. On the other hand, I was privileged and fortunate as a kid. I caught my share of bullying and social rejection, but it never got too bad. I always found like minded outcasts who wanted to read science fiction, take apart kitchen appliances, and poke around on computers. Not to mention video games, the great equalizer.\nWe did all the same things as other, more lonely geeks. We ran BBSes and played MUDs, we sent messages on AOL, we learned LogoWriter and BASIC and wrote buggy games and toys. The difference was, we were all friends in real life. We went to the same schools, or lived down the street. We didn\u2019t need to find people online to accept and support us. We\u2019d already found each other. We went online together, not alone.\nSo I never really looked online for social connection or community. Later, in college, people were more mature, open-minded, and actually interested in tech \u2013 at least in the Bay Area \u2013 so I had a full social life. That continued afterward with work, friends, and activities. I spent plenty of time online, but not to make new friends or find a community I was missing.\nThat\u2019s continued to this day. My news reader and social network feeds are dominated by people I know in real life. I\u2019ve met people online, in open source and elsewhere, but those relationships often remain functional. Hey, your thing has a bug! Argh, thanks. I disagree with something you wrote! Interesting, good point.\nThis is all fine. It probably wouldn\u2019t even strike me as interesting or worth writing about, except I\u2019ve spent a decent chunk of my free time in the IndieWeb, a direct offshoot of the Gen-X online natives. I found them because we share many of the same personal web site itches. Unlike me, though, they definitely hang out with people on the internet. When they ramp up on features like who to follow, web rings, or community management tools, I tend to glaze over.\nAgain, this is fine. There isn\u2019t really any problem here to be solved. I\u2019m just thinking out loud, as usual, trying to understand a bit of non-obvious friction in my life. Hopefully I\u2019ve crunched a bit more data and information into knowledge, if not quite wisdom. I don\u2019t hang out on the internet, exactly, but that\u2019s ok. I\u2019m definitely glad other people do.",
        "html": "<p>\n  <img src=\"https://aperture-proxy.p3k.io/ba5fa097747514d3123a876799eae62921760991/68747470733a2f2f736e61726665642e6f72672f772f77702d636f6e74656e742f706c7567696e732f6a65747061636b2f6d6f64756c65732f6c617a792d696d616765732f696d616765732f3178312e7472616e732e676966\" alt=\"1x1.trans.gif\" /></p><img src=\"https://aperture-proxy.p3k.io/227cb29c1be78b72a1f27907f372c3bf5ef40875/68747470733a2f2f736e61726665642e6f72672f6f70656e5f77696e646f772e6a7067\" alt=\"open_window.jpg\" />\n<p>I use Facebook. Not a ton, but I use it. I tweet, I Instagram, I read blogs. I do much of my work on GitHub. I\u2019m on mailing lists, IRC channels, StackOverflow. Not LinkedIn, but that\u2019s an exception. I say all this to show that I spend <em>plenty</em> of time on the Internet. More than my fair share.</p>\n<p>And yet. If I hang out with people on the Internet, I generally already know them in real life. This puts me a bit at odds with online communities like open source, the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a>, and others. I participate in them a bit, but I sometimes find it hard to relate to their needs and interests. They\u2019re online communities, and I don\u2019t really\u2026commune\u2026online.</p>\n<p>This is not remarkable. For most people, it\u2019s actually the norm, although that\u2019s changing quickly as the more and more of the world gets online. <a href=\"https://medium.com/swlh/key-takeaways-from-mary-meekers-2018-internet-trends-report-16d5f1df606c\">We\u2019re well past the halfway point!</a> It\u2019s a bit unusual for nerds like me, though, since discovering the internet has long been a rite of passage for us.</p>\n<p>\n<span></span></p>\n<p>Well before the web and social networks, a goth kid didn\u2019t have to feel different or weird or alone. They could borrow their parent\u2019s computer, dial up a BBS, post a forum, and find goth compatriots. A gay kid deep in the Bible belt could sign up for AOL or Prodigy or CompuServe, join a chat room, and hear that they\u2019re not broken or sick. That <a href=\"https://itgetsbetter.org/\">it gets better</a>. And a scrawny downtrodden geek with two left feet and coke bottle glasses could find a dog-eared copy of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language\">K&amp;R C</a>, follow the bread crumb trail to *nix newsgroups, stumble onto <a href=\"http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2010/04/the-first-linux-announcement-from-linus-torvalds/\">Linus\u2019s famous post introducing Linux</a>, and discover her calling in life.</p>\n<p>This is the great, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_utopianism\">techno-utopian</a> vision of the hippie tech community of the \u201970s and \u201980s. Many of us in tech today are still following the echoes of foundational projects from this era: the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog\">Whole Earth catalog</a> and <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL\">the WELL</a> (Stewart Brand et al), <a href=\"https://wired.com/\">WIRED Magazine</a> (Kevin Kelly et al), the <a href=\"https://archive.org/\">Internet Archive</a> (Brewster Kahle and John Perry Barlow), the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club\">Homebrew Computer Club</a>, <a href=\"http://www.gnu.org/\">GNU</a> (Richard Stallman), Xerox PARC and the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos\">Mother of All Demos</a> (Douglas Engelbart et al). They set the stage for connecting the world across time, place, and boundaries of all kinds.</p>\n<p>The next generation, the Gen-X-ers after hippie tech, grew up with computers. They got online as kids, or in junior high or high school. They ended up on early chat rooms and mailing lists. They learned HTML, wrote calculators in JavaScript, tested them in Netscape. They discovered sites like Metafilter and BoingBoing, found their way to (or created) LiveJournal and Blogger and MovableType, and made their own blogs. They pioneered the blogosphere and early social networks, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse\">federated them</a>, and now criticize them at real world meetups like <a href=\"https://xoxofest.com/\">XOXOFest</a>. They championed creativity, acceptance, and especially online communities, the natural extension of hippie tech.</p>\n<p>I love this. On the other hand, I was privileged and fortunate as a kid. I caught my share of bullying and social rejection, but it never got too bad. I always found like minded outcasts who wanted to read science fiction, take apart kitchen appliances, and poke around on computers. Not to mention video games, the great equalizer.</p>\n<p>We did all the same things as other, more lonely geeks. We ran BBSes and played MUDs, we sent messages on AOL, we learned LogoWriter and BASIC and wrote buggy games and toys. The difference was, we were all friends in real life. We went to the same schools, or lived down the street. We didn\u2019t need to find people online to accept and support us. We\u2019d already found each other. We went online <em>together</em>, not alone.</p>\n<p>So I never really looked online for social connection or community. Later, in college, people were more mature, open-minded, and actually interested in tech \u2013 at least in the Bay Area \u2013 so I had a full social life. That continued afterward with work, friends, and activities. I spent plenty of time online, but not to make new friends or find a community I was missing.</p>\n<p>That\u2019s continued to this day. My news reader and social network feeds are dominated by people I know in real life. I\u2019ve met people online, in open source and elsewhere, but those relationships often remain functional. Hey, <a href=\"https://snarfed.org/software\">your thing</a> has a bug! Argh, thanks. I disagree with <a href=\"https://snarfed.org/tag/essay\">something you wrote</a>! Interesting, good point.</p>\n<p>This is all fine. It probably wouldn\u2019t even strike me as interesting or worth writing about, except I\u2019ve spent a decent chunk of my free time in the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a>, a direct offshoot of the Gen-X online natives. I found them because we share many of the same personal web site <a href=\"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scratch_one%27s_own_itch\">itches</a>. Unlike me, though, they definitely hang out with people on the internet. When they ramp up on features like <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/who_to_follow\">who to follow</a>, <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/webring\">web rings</a>, or community management tools, I tend to glaze over.</p>\n<p>Again, this is fine. There isn\u2019t really any problem here to be solved. I\u2019m just thinking out loud, <a href=\"https://snarfed.org/tag/essay\">as usual</a>, trying to understand a bit of non-obvious friction in my life. Hopefully I\u2019ve crunched a bit more <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_pyramid\">data and information into knowledge</a>, if not quite wisdom. I don\u2019t hang out on the internet, exactly, but that\u2019s ok. I\u2019m definitely glad other people do.</p>"
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Eddie Hinkle eddiehinkle.com

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Eddie Hinkle eddiehinkle.com

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    "summary": "Its always interesting to see where replies to my posts originate from because I POSSE my replies to Twitter and Micro.blog and of course send IndieWeb replies via webmention. So when someone like you or @cleverdevil has the same POSSE\u2019d post on all the services it\u2019s funny to see where the replies come from (Indie Reply, Micro.blog or Twitter) \ud83e\udd14 either because of push notifications or ease of replying you both tend to use Micro.blog",
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        "text": "Its always interesting to see where replies to my posts originate from because I POSSE my replies to Twitter and Micro.blog and of course send IndieWeb replies via webmention. So when someone like you or @cleverdevil has the same POSSE\u2019d post on all the services it\u2019s funny to see where the replies come from (Indie Reply, Micro.blog or Twitter) \ud83e\udd14 either because of push notifications or ease of replying you both tend to use Micro.blog",
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    "summary": "That\u2019s definitely something I\u2019d like to add to iOS\u2026 I don\u2019t really know how often I would use them though. And Micropub/mf2 is still a little confusing around implementation on those to me, and I\u2019ve never felt the compulsion to look in-depth at it.",
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        "text": "That\u2019s definitely something I\u2019d like to add to iOS\u2026 I don\u2019t really know how often I would use them though. And Micropub/mf2 is still a little confusing around implementation on those to me, and I\u2019ve never felt the compulsion to look in-depth at it.",
        "html": "<p>That\u2019s definitely something I\u2019d like to add to iOS\u2026 I don\u2019t really know how often I would use them though. And Micropub/mf2 is still a little confusing around implementation on those to me, and I\u2019ve never felt the compulsion to look in-depth at it.</p>"
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Eddie Hinkle eddiehinkle.com

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    "summary": "That\u2019s a good suggestion. I\u2019ll add that to my Micro.blog IndieAuth help page: \u201cfirst log in to Micro.blog in Safari, then open Indigenous\u201d. Thanks!",
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        "text": "That\u2019s a good suggestion. I\u2019ll add that to my Micro.blog IndieAuth help page: \u201cfirst log in to Micro.blog in Safari, then open Indigenous\u201d. Thanks!",
        "html": "<p>That\u2019s a good suggestion. I\u2019ll add that to my Micro.blog IndieAuth help page: \u201cfirst log in to Micro.blog in Safari, then open Indigenous\u201d. Thanks!</p>"
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    "summary": "Hmm yeah that\u2019s tricky. Okay, so the email you get has two \u201cbuttons\u201d: Sign in to Micro.blog and Open in Micro.blog for iOS. The top one should log you in via the web browser and the second should log you in the M.b iOS app. So you would want to select the top button to login via Safari. Then if you go back to Indigenous, cancel the login and enter your url again, it should allow you to approve Indigenous rather than enter your email. (cc/ @manton for visibility on potential IndieAuth workflow pitfalls)",
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        "text": "Hmm yeah that\u2019s tricky. Okay, so the email you get has two \u201cbuttons\u201d: Sign in to Micro.blog and Open in Micro.blog for iOS. The top one should log you in via the web browser and the second should log you in the M.b iOS app. So you would want to select the top button to login via Safari. Then if you go back to Indigenous, cancel the login and enter your url again, it should allow you to approve Indigenous rather than enter your email. (cc/ @manton for visibility on potential IndieAuth workflow pitfalls)",
        "html": "<p>Hmm yeah that\u2019s tricky. Okay, so the email you get has two \u201cbuttons\u201d: Sign in to Micro.blog and Open in Micro.blog for iOS. The top one should log you in via the web browser and the second should log you in the M.b iOS app. So you would want to select the top button to login via Safari. Then if you go back to Indigenous, cancel the login and enter your url again, it should allow you to approve Indigenous rather than enter your email. (cc/ <a href=\"https://eddiehinkle.com/timeline/undefined\">@manton</a> for visibility on potential IndieAuth workflow pitfalls)</p>"
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Eddie Hinkle eddiehinkle.com

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    "summary": "You mention, I appear! \ud83d\udca8 am I a Genie? Haha! So Indigenous uses IndieAuth for its authentication. This page explains the different blog platforms that support IndieAuth. If you\u2019re using a Micro.blog-hosted blog, then IndieAuth support is already built in. Just enter your blog\u2019s url (not your profile url) on the login form (https://indigenous.abode.pub/ios/help/)",
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        "text": "You mention, I appear! \ud83d\udca8 am I a Genie? Haha! So Indigenous uses IndieAuth for its authentication. This page explains the different blog platforms that support IndieAuth. If you\u2019re using a Micro.blog-hosted blog, then IndieAuth support is already built in. Just enter your blog\u2019s url (not your profile url) on the login form (https://indigenous.abode.pub/ios/help/)",
        "html": "<p>You mention, I appear! \ud83d\udca8 am I a Genie? Haha! So Indigenous uses IndieAuth for its authentication. <a href=\"https://indigenous.abode.pub/ios/help/\">This page</a> explains the different blog platforms that support IndieAuth. If you\u2019re using a Micro.blog-hosted blog, then IndieAuth support is already built in. Just enter your blog\u2019s url (not your profile url) on the login form (https://indigenous.abode.pub/ios/help/)</p>"
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