Eating before meeting at IndieWebCamp NYC Leaders meeting.
I’d love to! When are you hosting it?
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”Welcome to the Microsub life!
I’ve gone crazy with channels but it makes choosing what I want to consume MUCH easier. On busy days I can just mark entire channels as read and ignore the posts if I feel like it but still check the channels that I know contain info or people important to me.
Currently microformats are used to add that richness to webmentions. However because webmention is markup agnostic people could start using other data to get the webmention richness. However there hasn’t been a proven better data format yet. 🤷♂️
Awesome! Webmentions was what originally attracted me to the IndieWeb. you are right, they don’t require microformats. For them to be their best (communicate post intent: like, reply, rsvp, mention) you need some type of data sitting on the src url
I actually don’t use the micro.blog apps aside from Wavelength. I do everything in my RSS reader and my website. So aside from microcasting, nothing would change if I was on Android. I reply through Webmentions from my site to Micro.blog.
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.
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.