There’s a great article about Webmentions on A List Apart, if you haven’t read it: https://alistapart.com/article/webmentions-enabling-better-communication-on-the-internet

Great question! There are definitely a bunch of specs, but many of them attempt to solve some issue among several implementations before they become a spec. As far as Microformats, the IndieWeb community uses it a lot because it enables one of the biggest features among IndieWeb enabled websites: Webmentions.

@szarka There is no trade-off.

Why frame as “common platform” OR “federated community” when you can do BOTH?

Post on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere: https://indieweb.org/POSSE

#ownyourdata, use #socialmedia to distribute & get feedback.
#ownyourdata #socialmedia

#Indiewebcamp Oxford

As someone who is really into the IndieWeb movement and content ownership, I host my own website but my Microcast is hosted in Micro.blog. To me, I still feel safe with my Microcast being on Micro.blog because the entire platform is built on Jekyll. I can sync the content of my entire Microcast website to GitHub and walk away with all of my files and pages, put them on another server and point my domain name at it. With that, I could successfully leave Micro.blog with all of my content very easily compared to any other hosted service. For some people it is too hard or not worth self-Hosting, but data portability is key to content ownership and that’s what Micro.blog provides in my opinion.

I can reply to you from my indieweb site; I can follow your h-feed in an indieweb reader, but as mastodon doesn't send or receive webmentions we have to federate by hand for now. If you link to this post, I can manually send a webmention to make your reply show up.

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@iChris lots going on in the #indieweb world for sure!

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The IRC #indieweb-wordpress folks are very helpful too!
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@Jeena did you see @EddieHinkle’s reply?

https://eddiehinkle.com/2018/09/20/16/reply/

I tried sending it via your webmention form, got this error:

 “We're sorry, but something went wrong.

  We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.”

If ownyourswarm worked with known, would it map this to a Chicken 🐔 or a check-in? #indieweb

I’m interested in building a @draftsapp action to publish notes via Micropub. I’m finding their documentation inscrutable. Anyone have pointers? Source for a similar action (perhaps publishing to Tumblr or WordPress) would be super helpful.

Hey Jeena, Because of the way Micro.blog is architected, it treats original posts and replies differently. It should be sending webmentions for original posts, but it doesn’t currently send webmentions to posts that are in reply to other posts. I think there also might be a potential issue if you haven’t verified your domain. Besides that, it should work.

I had a look into my logs and it looks like #Micro.blog doesn't send any webmentions to my site when someone comments, which is a pity, because when I trigger it manually, their comment shows up nicely on my website.

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Homebrew Website Club Baltimore

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HWC Baltimore 2018-09-18 Wrap-Up

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Improving my Grav templates

A couple of back-burner projects are simmering nicely. Mapping I wrote about recently.1 Today I turned back to working on micropub to add posts to this site. I have now worked out how to send two different kinds of post to two different places in the file system. Both are what you might call notes (indeed I call them Notes) but some are little status update notes and others are bookmarks.2 The way Grav works is that each file lives in a folder and Grav uses a specific template to display the contents of the file. I wanted a way to visually distinguish the two kinds of note; I chose different icons in the title. More this way ...

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An Indieweb Podcast - Episode 10: The Thrilla in Manilla

I’m going to Indiewebcamp NYC.