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    "author": {
        "name": "Neil Mather",
        "url": "https://doubleloop.net/",
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    "url": "https://doubleloop.net/2019/11/05/6358/",
    "published": "2019-11-05T18:21:12+00:00",
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        "html": "Liked <a href=\"https://unicyclic.com/mal/2019-11-05-I_Haza_Website_You_Can_Haz_One_Too\">I Haza Website You Can Haz One Too</a> by <a href=\"https://unicyclic.com/mal\"><img src=\"https://unicyclic.com/mal/public/profile_small_thumb.png\" alt=\"Malcolm Blaney\" />Malcolm Blaney</a>\n<blockquote>Hi there, just letting you know I've moved my blog to mblaney.xyz/blog. Please follow me there! Here's a copy of a post I published there earlier today:\n\n\nI wrote a post back in July called IndieWeb Goals, which hoped to have more updates soon.... and here we are in November!\n\nOh well I don't feel t...</blockquote>",
        "text": "Liked I Haza Website You Can Haz One Too by Malcolm Blaney\nHi there, just letting you know I've moved my blog to mblaney.xyz/blog. Please follow me there! Here's a copy of a post I published there earlier today:\n\n\nI wrote a post back in July called IndieWeb Goals, which hoped to have more updates soon.... and here we are in November!\n\nOh well I don't feel t..."
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Manton Reece",
        "url": "https://www.manton.org/",
        "photo": "https://micro.blog/manton/avatar.jpg"
    },
    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2019/11/05/it-has-been.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>It has been 3 years since the 2016 election. I hope you\u2019re not waiting for Twitter or Facebook to fix their platforms. Posting to your blog is part of every solution to making the web better, and you can do that today. Start at Micro.blog or <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb.org</a>.</p>",
        "text": "It has been 3 years since the 2016 election. I hope you\u2019re not waiting for Twitter or Facebook to fix their platforms. Posting to your blog is part of every solution to making the web better, and you can do that today. Start at Micro.blog or IndieWeb.org."
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    "published": "2019-11-05T11:55:49-06:00",
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I Haza Website You Can Haz One Too

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    "published": "2019-11-05T23:34:56+10:00",
    "url": "https://unicyclic.com/mal/2019-11-05-I_Haza_Website_You_Can_Haz_One_Too",
    "name": "I Haza Website You Can Haz One Too",
    "content": {
        "text": "Hi there, just letting you know I've moved my blog to mblaney.xyz/blog. Please follow me there! Here's a copy of a post I published there earlier today:\n\n\n\nI wrote a post back in July called IndieWeb Goals, which hoped to have more updates soon.... and here we are in November!\n\n\nOh well I don't feel too bad about that. I had a new project in mind and I wanted to build it in stages, but it sort of needed everything working at the same time so I just got to work on it instead. That project is now online at I Haza Website:\n\n\n\nI would love it if you checked it out! The idea behind it is that I was putting all this work into my IndieWeb tools, but not making them accessible to anyone else. Now working on your own tools is fine, I don't believe there should be any expectation to make things for everyone. But I found myself thinking, what if I could? There have been questions about whether the barrier to entry in the IndieWeb is too high, and I know lots of people are taking on that challenge but I wanted to have a go at working on that myself.\n\n\nThat's when I found myself falling down a rabbit hole to create a website that make websites. So I'm quite happy that it's only November. \ud83d\ude09 I have just finished building my own website at mblaney.xyz, and am now writing here instead of my old blog at unicyclic.com/mal.\n\n\nMy old website, unicyclic.com, remains an important part of my IndieWeb setup, but I have finally come around to the idea that everyone should have their own domain. Multi-user domains like unicyclic.com or anything in the Fediverse miss out on something important, which is that we each need to be in control of our own identity on the web, no matter where our website is hosted. I think this is only going to become more important as the IndieWeb gains momentum.\n\n\nSo back to this latest project. It works by pointing a domain name at an IP address it provides, and then verifying your email. Once that happens I've made adding a website to the server as automated as possible, I really didn't want to make too much extra work for myself if someone else wants to use it. (And I hope they do!)\n\n\nThis was the bulk of the work I've done over the last few months, the deploy process for Dobrado now requires just a few clicks and after that updates are automatic. That means if I want to make improvements or bug fixes to my own website, the easiest way to do that is to roll out a new update, which all websites will now get at the same time. It also means all hosted websites are fully featured, encrypted by default, and come pre-configured to do everything you would expect on the IndieWeb. I'm pretty happy to have all that working and think it's a great place to continue IndieWeb development from.\n\n\nThe hardest part was that I use my reader every day, and I really didn't want to run a feed parsing and caching service on every new website. I could've continued to log in to unicyclic.com as my reader, but I think that would've meant switching back and forth between websites all the time. So the logical step was to add a Microsub client to Dobrado, since it was already a Microsub server. Now each website created by i.haza.website gets configured as a client, with unicyclic.com working as a shared server. The access token required for this is automatically created when the website is set up, so it's all working by the time you log in.\n\n\nSo if you know someone who's keen to get involved in the IndieWeb but not sure how to get started, feel free to share this with them. I've tried to make the sign up process as simple as I could, but please use the contact form if you have any feedback.",
        "html": "Hi there, just letting you know I've moved my blog to <a href=\"https://mblaney.xyz/blog\">mblaney.xyz/blog</a>. Please follow me there! Here's a copy of a post I published there earlier today:<br /><br /><br />\nI wrote a post back in July called <a href=\"https://unicyclic.com/mal/2019-07-23-IndieWeb_Goals\">IndieWeb Goals</a>, which hoped to have more updates soon.... and here we are in November!<br /><br />\nOh well I don't feel too bad about that. I had a new project in mind and I wanted to build it in stages, but it sort of needed everything working at the same time so I just got to work on it instead. That project is now online at <a href=\"https://i.haza.website\">I Haza Website</a>:<br /><br /><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://unicyclic.com/mal/public/screenshot.png\" /><br /><br /><strong>I would love it if you checked it out!</strong> The idea behind it is that I was putting all this work into my <a href=\"https://indieweb.org\">IndieWeb</a> tools, but not making them accessible to anyone else. Now working on your own tools is fine, I don't believe there should be any expectation to make things for everyone. But I found myself thinking, <em>what if I could?</em> There have been questions about whether the barrier to entry in the IndieWeb is too high, and I know lots of people are taking on that challenge but I wanted to have a go at working on that myself.<br /><br />\nThat's when I found myself falling down a rabbit hole to create a website that make websites. So I'm quite happy that it's only November. \ud83d\ude09 I have just finished building my own website at <a href=\"https://mblaney.xyz\">mblaney.xyz</a>, and am now writing here instead of my old blog at <a href=\"https://unicyclic.com/mal\">unicyclic.com/mal</a>.<br /><br />\nMy old website, <a href=\"https://unicyclic.com\">unicyclic.com</a>, remains an important part of my IndieWeb setup, but I have finally come around to the idea that everyone should have their own domain. Multi-user domains like unicyclic.com or anything in the Fediverse miss out on something important, which is that we each need to be in control of our own identity on the web, no matter where our website is hosted. I think this is only going to become more important as the IndieWeb gains momentum.<br /><br />\nSo back to <a href=\"https://i.haza.website\">this latest project</a>. It works by pointing a domain name at an IP address it provides, and then verifying your email. Once that happens I've made adding a website to the server as automated as possible, I really didn't want to make too much extra work for myself if someone else wants to use it. (And I hope they do!)<br /><br />\nThis was the bulk of the work I've done over the last few months, the deploy process for <a href=\"https://dobrado.net\">Dobrado</a> now requires just a few clicks and after that updates are automatic. That means if I want to make improvements or bug fixes to my own website, the easiest way to do that is to roll out a new update, which all websites will now get at the same time. It also means all hosted websites are <a href=\"https://i.haza.website/features\">fully featured</a>, encrypted by default, and come pre-configured to do everything you would expect on the IndieWeb. I'm pretty happy to have all that working and think it's a great place to continue IndieWeb development from.<br /><br />\nThe hardest part was that I use my reader every day, and I really didn't want to run a feed parsing and caching service on every new website. I could've continued to log in to unicyclic.com as my reader, but I think that would've meant switching back and forth between websites all the time. So the logical step was to add a Microsub client to Dobrado, since it was already a Microsub server. Now each website created by <a href=\"https://i.haza.website\">i.haza.website</a> gets configured as a client, with unicyclic.com working as a shared server. The access token required for this is automatically created when the website is set up, so it's all working by the time you log in.<br /><br />\nSo if you know someone who's keen to get involved in the IndieWeb but not sure how to get started, feel free to share this with them. I've tried to make the sign up process as simple as I could, but please use the <a href=\"https://i.haza.website/contact\">contact form</a> if you have any feedback.<br /><br /><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://unicyclic.com/mal/public/screenshot2.png\" />"
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IndiewebCamp Austin 2020

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        "html": "RSVP yes\n<p>to <a href=\"https://2020.indieweb.org/austin\">IndieWebCamp Austin 2020</a><a href=\"https://herestomwiththeweather.com/\"><img src=\"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/16299?v=3&amp;s=460\" alt=\"Tom Brown\" /></a></p>",
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17 Years of Blogging

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        "text": "A huge milestone, and a great look back at the way Ton is helping to change the community for the better by promoting better practices on ownership of our data",
        "html": "<p>A huge milestone, and a great look back at the way Ton is helping to change the community for the better by promoting better practices on ownership of our data</p>"
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        "name": "Jamie Tanna",
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Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours

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    "url": "https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2019/11/2gvyh/",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Manton Reece",
        "url": "https://www.manton.org/",
        "photo": "https://micro.blog/manton/avatar.jpg"
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    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2019/11/04/indieweb-meetup-this.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>IndieWeb Meetup this week in Austin! Wednesday at Mozart\u2019s Coffee, 6:30pm. Stop by to chat about the open web and the upcoming IndieWebCamp. \u2615</p>",
        "text": "IndieWeb Meetup this week in Austin! Wednesday at Mozart\u2019s Coffee, 6:30pm. Stop by to chat about the open web and the upcoming IndieWebCamp. \u2615"
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    "published": "2019-11-04T09:36:45-06:00",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Kh\u00fcrt Williams",
        "url": "https://islandinthenet.com/",
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    "url": "https://islandinthenet.com/sunday-paper-4/",
    "published": "2019-11-03T09:02:41-05:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "<a href=\"https://islandinthenet.com/sunday-paper-4/\"><img src=\"https://islandinthenet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/h51vmjneevo.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday Paper, Rucksack, Magazine, Camera, Pocket Watch, Notebook, Leather, Range Finder Camera, Camera, Ruck\" /></a><a href=\"https://unsplash.com/photos/h51VmJNeEVo\">Photo</a> by <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/@kevinmueller\">Kevin Mueller</a> on Unsplash.<p>I dislike the holier-than-thou attitude of <em>Cancel Culture</em>.</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  \"This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're always politically 'woke' and all that stuff. You should get over that quickly. The world is messy, there are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids. And share certain things with you.\"<a href=\"https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/30/politics/obama-cancel-culture/index.html\">Barack Obama</a>\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>Thom Hogan, true to his nature, gives us his unfiltered opinion of the Fujifilm X-Pro 3. I think it's spot on. Emphasis mine.</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  It appears that Fujifilm has a clear design bias in the X-Pro series toward folk who used old rangefinder cameras and don't want to spend time in the menus or even reviewing images on the camera. <strong>That audience is, at this point, getting old</strong>. Fujifilm also seems to be saying that this same audience isn't all that interested in one of the primary advantages that kicked the digital camera adoption into high gear, that big rear LCD.</p>\n<p>  Each big \"breakthrough\" in camera tech that generated a growth spurt in ILC solved a clear user problem. Automatic metering solved the user problem of setting the right exposure. Autofocus solved the user problem of putting focus in the right spot. DSLRs solved the problem of not seeing your results instantly so that you could understand what you might still need to change.</p>\n<p>  The hypothesis behind the X-Pro design is that there is a group of photographers who know exactly what they're doing and don't need or want to see results most of the time. Call them the Totally Secure-in-What-I'm-Doing Shooters. Okay, maybe, but how many of those folk are there actually? And are they really that secure? Are they not chimping at all? To me, the change in rear display adds another clumsiness to an already somewhat awkward camera.<a href=\"http://www.sansmirror.com/newsviews/2019-mirrorless-camera/october-december-2019-newsv/fujifilm-x-pro3-announcemen.html\">Thom Hogan</a>\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>On his <a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/about/following/\">Following</a> page, Chris Aldrich mau have created the longest blogroll in history.</p>\n<p>Welcome to the IndieWeb John.</p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I\u2019m 32 years old today. Born in 1987, I\u2019m right in the middle of of the Millennial generation. I came of age at the same time as the Internet. When I was a kid, my Dad was part of the computer science faculty at the technical school in my small hometown. This meant we had a computer in my house before most families did. My Dad would bring those off white color desktops computers home when he had extra work to do, and he\u2019d let me play games on it when he wasn\u2019t using it.<a href=\"https://www.jhsheridan.com/officially-indieweb/\">John H. Sheridan</a>\n</p></blockquote>",
        "text": "Photo by Kevin Mueller on Unsplash.I dislike the holier-than-thou attitude of Cancel Culture.\n\n  \"This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're always politically 'woke' and all that stuff. You should get over that quickly. The world is messy, there are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids. And share certain things with you.\"Barack Obama\n\nThom Hogan, true to his nature, gives us his unfiltered opinion of the Fujifilm X-Pro 3. I think it's spot on. Emphasis mine.\n\n  It appears that Fujifilm has a clear design bias in the X-Pro series toward folk who used old rangefinder cameras and don't want to spend time in the menus or even reviewing images on the camera. That audience is, at this point, getting old. Fujifilm also seems to be saying that this same audience isn't all that interested in one of the primary advantages that kicked the digital camera adoption into high gear, that big rear LCD.\n  Each big \"breakthrough\" in camera tech that generated a growth spurt in ILC solved a clear user problem. Automatic metering solved the user problem of setting the right exposure. Autofocus solved the user problem of putting focus in the right spot. DSLRs solved the problem of not seeing your results instantly so that you could understand what you might still need to change.\n  The hypothesis behind the X-Pro design is that there is a group of photographers who know exactly what they're doing and don't need or want to see results most of the time. Call them the Totally Secure-in-What-I'm-Doing Shooters. Okay, maybe, but how many of those folk are there actually? And are they really that secure? Are they not chimping at all? To me, the change in rear display adds another clumsiness to an already somewhat awkward camera.Thom Hogan\n\nOn his Following page, Chris Aldrich mau have created the longest blogroll in history.\nWelcome to the IndieWeb John.\n\n  I\u2019m 32 years old today. Born in 1987, I\u2019m right in the middle of of the Millennial generation. I came of age at the same time as the Internet. When I was a kid, my Dad was part of the computer science faculty at the technical school in my small hometown. This meant we had a computer in my house before most families did. My Dad would bring those off white color desktops computers home when he had extra work to do, and he\u2019d let me play games on it when he wasn\u2019t using it.John H. Sheridan"
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        "name": "Neil Mather",
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    "url": "https://doubleloop.net/2019/11/03/thanks-for-all-your-work-david/",
    "published": "2019-11-03T09:13:22+00:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "Replied to <a href=\"https://david.shanske.com/2019/11/02/indieweb-thoughts-post-state-of-the-word/\">Indieweb Thoughts Post State of the Word</a> by <a href=\"https://david.shanske.com/\"><img src=\"https://david.shanske.com/wp-content/uploads/avatar-privacy/cache/gravatar/2/c/2cb1f8afd9c8d3b646b4071c5ed887c970d81d625eeed87e447706940e2c403d-42.png\" alt=\"David Shanske\" />David Shanske</a>\n<blockquote>It has been a while since I wrote out some thoughts on where the Indieweb is on WordPress. Sitting here, after hearing Matt Mullenweg gave the State of the Word at WordCamp US, and after I assisting Tantek \u00c7elik in his talk on Taking Back the Web, which was one of the contributing factors to my bei...</blockquote>\n\nThanks for all your work, David.  \n<p>The WordPress IndieWeb ecosystem has enabled me to be a fully-fledged citizen of the IndieWeb. Everyone who has gotten it to where it is now is awesome!  <img src=\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f389.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf89\" /></p>",
        "text": "Replied to Indieweb Thoughts Post State of the Word by David Shanske\nIt has been a while since I wrote out some thoughts on where the Indieweb is on WordPress. Sitting here, after hearing Matt Mullenweg gave the State of the Word at WordCamp US, and after I assisting Tantek \u00c7elik in his talk on Taking Back the Web, which was one of the contributing factors to my bei...\n\nThanks for all your work, David.  \nThe WordPress IndieWeb ecosystem has enabled me to be a fully-fledged citizen of the IndieWeb. Everyone who has gotten it to where it is now is awesome!"
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    "type": "entry",
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    "url": "http://tantek.com/2019/306/t4/",
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        "text": "@andymci @no thanks very much for the invitation! Would\u2019ve loved to join y\u2019all but had to catch a flight. Maybe the next #WordPress event we\u2019re both at? Or an #IndieWeb event: https://indieweb.org/events And LMK when you\u2019re next in SF!",
        "html": "<a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/andymci\">@andymci</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/no\">@no</a> thanks very much for the invitation! Would\u2019ve loved to join y\u2019all but had to catch a flight. Maybe the next #<span class=\"p-category\">WordPress</span> event we\u2019re both at? Or an #<span class=\"p-category\">IndieWeb</span> event: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/events\">https://indieweb.org/events</a> And LMK when you\u2019re next in SF!"
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Friends Wanted

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    "published": "2019-11-02 21:58-0700",
    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2019/11/friends-wanted/",
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    "name": "Friends Wanted",
    "content": {
        "text": "Making friends as an adult is hard. I\u2019ve talked about this with quite a few people and there is always strong agreement. I was a bit surprised by that. It seems like if it\u2019s a common sentiment, more people would be finding each other. I know that\u2019s quite a simplification, of course. Human social interactions are complex, life is busy, some people are butts, and some people already have a social circle they are content with.\n\nIt also takes some vulnerability to put yourself out there. I\u2019ve gone to a handful of San Diego meetups and made several acquaintances, but it takes something a little extra to move beyond that to a friendship. I\u2019ve been fairly outgoing in the past, but less so lately.\n\nI recently came across Joe Crawford via Twitter. I saw he was an indieweb enthusiast who also lives in San Diego, so I suggested we should meet up sometime. We met up for dinner and hit it off talking about a variety of web things and even some more personal things that I would not expect to be discussing with someone I just met, like mental health. It was refreshing.\n\nSpeaking of meetups, I went to another movie meetup today with Active Lifestyle Nerds. We saw Maleficent: Mistress of Evil then got Mexican for dinner. The movie and hangout time was good. I\u2019m starting to get to know some of them, so maybe there\u2019s some future friends there too.\n\nWhat has been your experience making new friends as an adult?",
        "html": "<p>Making friends as an adult is hard. I\u2019ve talked about this with quite a few people and there is always strong agreement. I was a bit surprised by that. It seems like if it\u2019s a common sentiment, more people would be finding each other. I know that\u2019s quite a simplification, of course. Human social interactions are complex, life is busy, some people are butts, and some people already have a social circle they are content with.</p>\n\n<p>It also takes some vulnerability to put yourself out there. I\u2019ve gone to a handful of San Diego meetups and made several acquaintances, but it takes something a little extra to move beyond that to a friendship. I\u2019ve been fairly outgoing in the past, but less so lately.</p>\n\n<p>I recently came across <a class=\"h-card\" href=\"https://artlung.com/\">Joe Crawford</a> via Twitter. I saw he was an indieweb enthusiast who also lives in San Diego, so I suggested we should meet up sometime. We met up for dinner and hit it off talking about a variety of web things and even some more personal things that I would not expect to be discussing with someone I just met, like mental health. It was refreshing.</p>\n\n<p>Speaking of meetups, I went to another movie meetup today with Active Lifestyle Nerds. We saw Maleficent: Mistress of Evil then got Mexican for dinner. The movie and hangout time was good. I\u2019m starting to get to know some of them, so maybe there\u2019s some future friends there too.</p>\n\n<p>What has been your experience making new friends as an adult?</p>"
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2019-11-02 15:31-0700",
    "url": "http://tantek.com/2019/306/t2/",
    "category": [
        "WordPress",
        "microformats2",
        "microformats",
        "IndieWeb",
        "WordPressTheme"
    ],
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        "https://twitter.com/andersnoren/status/1190747161312542723"
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    "content": {
        "text": "@andersnoren @kevinmarks thanks for the consideration, appreciated!\n\n@dshanske is the real #WordPress Theme #microformats2 expert. I\u2019m sure he can file good issues. @ChrisAldrich is also great at adding #microformats & #IndieWeb to a #WordPressTheme.",
        "html": "<a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/andersnoren\">@andersnoren</a> <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/kevinmarks\">@kevinmarks</a> thanks for the consideration, appreciated!<br /><br /><a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/dshanske\">@dshanske</a> is the real #<span class=\"p-category\">WordPress</span> Theme #<span class=\"p-category\">microformats2</span> expert. I\u2019m sure he can file good issues. <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich\">@ChrisAldrich</a> is also great at adding #<span class=\"p-category\">microformats</span> &amp; #<span class=\"p-category\">IndieWeb</span> to a #<span class=\"p-category\">WordPressTheme</span>."
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Tantek \u00c7elik",
        "url": "http://tantek.com/",
        "photo": "https://aperture-media.p3k.io/tantek.com/acfddd7d8b2c8cf8aa163651432cc1ec7eb8ec2f881942dca963d305eeaaa6b8.jpg"
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2019-11-02 15:12-0700",
    "url": "http://tantek.com/2019/306/t1/thank-you-wordcampus-take-back-your-web",
    "category": [
        "WordPress",
        "IndieWeb"
    ],
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        "text": "Thank you @WordCampUS and thanks @photomatt for the invitation to speak on \u201cTake Back Your Web\u201d! Huge thanks to @dshanske for all his help!\n\nGreat questions & seeing so many with their own sites. Follow @dshanske\u2019s awesome #WordPress #IndieWeb posts and progress on his own site e.g. https://david.shanske.com/kind/article/ He\u2019ll also be at Contributor Day tomorrow!",
        "html": "Thank you <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/WordCampUS\">@WordCampUS</a> and thanks <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/photomatt\">@photomatt</a> for the invitation to speak on \u201cTake Back Your Web\u201d! Huge thanks to <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/dshanske\">@dshanske</a> for all his help!<br /><br />Great questions &amp; seeing so many with their own sites. Follow <a class=\"h-cassis-username\" href=\"https://twitter.com/dshanske\">@dshanske</a>\u2019s awesome #<span class=\"p-category\">WordPress</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">IndieWeb</span> posts and progress on his own site e.g. <a href=\"https://david.shanske.com/kind/article/\">https://david.shanske.com/kind/article/</a> He\u2019ll also be at Contributor Day tomorrow!"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Tantek \u00c7elik",
        "url": "http://tantek.com/",
        "photo": "https://aperture-media.p3k.io/tantek.com/acfddd7d8b2c8cf8aa163651432cc1ec7eb8ec2f881942dca963d305eeaaa6b8.jpg"
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Manton Reece",
        "url": "https://www.manton.org/",
        "photo": "https://micro.blog/manton/avatar.jpg"
    },
    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2019/11/02/indiewebcamp-austin-will.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://2020.indieweb.org/austin\">IndieWebCamp Austin</a> will be February 22-23, 2020. Registration is now open! Just $10 for the weekend.</p>",
        "text": "IndieWebCamp Austin will be February 22-23, 2020. Registration is now open! Just $10 for the weekend."
    },
    "published": "2019-11-02T13:42:32-05:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "5930801",
    "_source": "12",
    "_is_read": true
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Manton Reece",
        "url": "https://www.manton.org/",
        "photo": "https://micro.blog/manton/avatar.jpg"
    },
    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2019/11/02/today-at-pm.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Today at 2:30pm central time, Tantek \u00c7elik is giving an IndieWeb talk \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https://2019.us.wordcamp.org/session/take-back-your-web/\">Take Back Your Web</a> \u2014 at WordCamp US. Check out the livestream for room 240 to watch it live.</p>",
        "text": "Today at 2:30pm central time, Tantek \u00c7elik is giving an IndieWeb talk \u2014\u00a0Take Back Your Web \u2014 at WordCamp US. Check out the livestream for room 240 to watch it live."
    },
    "published": "2019-11-02T13:12:20-05:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "5930802",
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2019-11-02T20:10:01+00:00",
    "url": "http://stream.boffosocko.com/2019/interested-in-becoming-part-of-the-indieweb-after-ts-talk",
    "category": [
        "IndieWeb",
        "WCUS"
    ],
    "syndication": [
        "https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich/status/1190722783170445313"
    ],
    "content": {
        "text": "Interested in becoming part of the #IndieWeb after @t's talk at #WCUS? I'm happy to help or answer questions. I've also got some WordPress specific experiments and documentation (on my own website, of course): \nhttps://boffosocko.com/research/indieweb/",
        "html": "Interested in becoming part of the <a href=\"http://stream.boffosocko.com/tag/IndieWeb\" class=\"p-category\">#IndieWeb</a> after @t's talk at <a href=\"http://stream.boffosocko.com/tag/WCUS\" class=\"p-category\">#WCUS</a>? I'm happy to help or answer questions. I've also got some WordPress specific experiments and documentation (on my own website, of course): <br /><a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/research/indieweb/\">https://boffosocko.com/research/indieweb/</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Chris Aldrich",
        "url": "http://stream.boffosocko.com/profile/chrisaldrich",
        "photo": "http://stream.boffosocko.com/file/600427b81f7785e704eadfe511a9270f/thumb.jpg"
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "5930762",
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2019-11-02T19:27:38+00:00",
    "url": "http://stream.boffosocko.com/2019/the-invited-talk-take-back-your-web-given-by-the",
    "category": [
        "IndieWeb",
        "DoOO",
        "WCUS"
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    "syndication": [
        "https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich/status/1190712113469313027"
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    "content": {
        "text": "The invited talk \"Take Back Your Web\" given by the thoughtful and Inimitable @t should be livestreaming in just a few minutes from WordCamp US\n#IndieWeb #DoOO #WCUS\nhttps://2019.us.wordcamp.org/session/take-back-your-web/\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D547WuCZIaE",
        "html": "The invited talk \"Take Back Your Web\" given by the thoughtful and Inimitable @t should be livestreaming in just a few minutes from WordCamp US<br /><a href=\"http://stream.boffosocko.com/tag/IndieWeb\" class=\"p-category\">#IndieWeb</a> <a href=\"http://stream.boffosocko.com/tag/DoOO\" class=\"p-category\">#DoOO</a> <a href=\"http://stream.boffosocko.com/tag/WCUS\" class=\"p-category\">#WCUS</a><br /><a href=\"https://2019.us.wordcamp.org/session/take-back-your-web/\">https://2019.us.wordcamp.org/session/take-back-your-web/</a><br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D547WuCZIaE\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D547WuCZIaE</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Chris Aldrich",
        "url": "http://stream.boffosocko.com/profile/chrisaldrich",
        "photo": "http://stream.boffosocko.com/file/600427b81f7785e704eadfe511a9270f/thumb.jpg"
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2019-11-02T15:59:20+00:00",
    "url": "http://stream.boffosocko.com/2019/wishing-i-was-at-wcus-today-to-hear-my-friend",
    "category": [
        "WCUS",
        "WordPress",
        "IndieWeb"
    ],
    "syndication": [
        "https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich/status/1190659684178579456"
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    "content": {
        "text": "Wishing I was at #WCUS today to hear my friend Tantek \u00c7elik @t, web standards lead @Mozilla & @CSSwg, talk on \"Take Back Your Web\"\n#WordPress #IndieWeb\n\nLivestream: https://2019.us.wordcamp.org/livestream/saturday/#240 at 2:30PM Central\nhttps://2019.us.wordcamp.org/session/take-back-your-web/",
        "html": "Wishing I was at <a href=\"http://stream.boffosocko.com/tag/WCUS\" class=\"p-category\">#WCUS</a> today to hear my friend Tantek \u00c7elik @t, web standards lead @Mozilla &amp; @CSSwg, talk on \"Take Back Your Web\"<br /><a href=\"http://stream.boffosocko.com/tag/WordPress\" class=\"p-category\">#WordPress</a> <a href=\"http://stream.boffosocko.com/tag/IndieWeb\" class=\"p-category\">#IndieWeb</a><br />\nLivestream: <a href=\"https://2019.us.wordcamp.org/livestream/saturday/#240\">https://2019.us.wordcamp.org/livestream/saturday/#240</a> at 2:30PM Central<br /><a href=\"https://2019.us.wordcamp.org/session/take-back-your-web/\">https://2019.us.wordcamp.org/session/take-back-your-web/</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Chris Aldrich",
        "url": "http://stream.boffosocko.com/profile/chrisaldrich",
        "photo": "http://stream.boffosocko.com/file/600427b81f7785e704eadfe511a9270f/thumb.jpg"
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2019-10-24T08:20:17-04:00",
    "url": "https://miklb.com/2019/10/24/5330/",
    "syndication": [
        "https://twitter.com/miklb/status/1187343061237587968"
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    "content": {
        "text": "In some personal news, I\u2019ve been accepted into the GitHub Sponsors program & you can now sponsor my work on my IndieWeb Jekyll & WordPress themes or to work on other open source projects. More details soon.",
        "html": "<p>In some personal news, I\u2019ve been accepted into the GitHub Sponsors program &amp; you can now sponsor my work on my IndieWeb Jekyll &amp; WordPress themes or to work on other open source projects. More details soon.\n</p>"
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#Redecentralize 2019 Session: Decentralized Identity & Rethinking Reputation

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2019-11-01 08:32-0700",
    "url": "http://tantek.com/2019/305/b1/redecentralize-decentralized-identity-reputation",
    "name": "#Redecentralize 2019 Session: Decentralized Identity & Rethinking Reputation",
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        "text": "On Friday 2019-10-25 I participated in \nRedecentralize Conference 2019, a one-day unconference in London, England on the topics of decentralisation, privacy, autonomy, and digital infrastructure.\n\nI gave a \n3 minute lightning talk, \nhelped run an \nIndieWeb standards & methods \nsession in the first open slot of the day, and participated in two more sessions. The second open session had no Etherpad notes, so this post is from my one week ago memory recall.\n\nDecentralized lunch\n\nAfter the \nfirst open session of the day, the Redecentralize confrerence provided a nice informal buffet lunch for participants. Though we picked up our eats from a centralized buffet, people self-organized into their own distributed groups. There were a few folks I knew or had recently met, and many more that I had not. I sat with a few people who looked like they had just started talking and that\u2019s when I met Kate.\n\n\nI asked if she was running a session and she said yes in the next time slot, on decentralized identity and rethinking reputation. She also noted that she wanted to approach it from a human exploration perspective rather than a technical perspective, and was looking to learn from participants. I decided I\u2019d join, looking forward to a humans-first (rather than technology plumbing first) conversation and discussion.\n\nDiscussion circle\n\nAfter lunch everyone found their way to various sessions or corners of the space to work on their own projects. The space for Kate\u2019s session was an area in the middle of a large room, without a whiteboard or projector. About a half dozen of us assembled chairs in a rough oval to get started.\n\n\nAs we informally chatted a few more people showed up and we broadened our circle. The space was a bit noisy with chatter drifting in from other sessions, yet we could hear each other we if leaned in a little. Kate started us off asking our opinions of the subject matter, experiences, and about existing approaches in contrast to letting any one company control identity and reputation.\n\nGaming of centralized systems \n\nWe spent quite a bit of time on discussing existing online or digital reputation systems, and how portable or not these were. China was a subject of discussion along with the social reputation system that they had put in place that was starting to be used for various purposes. Someone provided the example of people putting their phones into little shaker machines to fake an increased stepcount to increase their reputation in that way. Apparently lots of people are gaming the Chinese systems in many ways. \n\nPortability and resets\n\nTwo major concerns were brought up about decentralized reputation systems.\n\nReputation portability. If you build reputation in one system or service, how do you transfer that reputation to another?\nReset abuse. If you develop a bad repuation in a system, what is to stop you from deleting that identity, and creating a new one to reset your reputation?\n\n\nNo one had good answers for either. I offered one observation for the latter, which was that as reputation systems evolve over time, the lack of reputation, i.e. someone just starting out (or a reset), is seen as having a default negative reputation, that they have to prove otherwise. For example the old Twitter \u201ceggs\u201d, so called due to the default icons that Twitter (at some point) assigned to new users that were a white cartoon egg on a pastel background. \n\n\nAnother subsequent thought, Twitter\u2019s profile display of when someone joined has also reinforced some of this \u201cdefault negative\u201d reputation, as people are suspicious of accounts that seem to just recently joined Twitter and all of sudden are posting forcefully (especially about political or breaking news stories). Are they bots or state operatives pretending to be someone they\u2019re not? Hard to tell.\n\nSession dynamics\n\nWhile Kate did a good job keeping discussions on topic, prompting with new questions when the group appeared to rathole in some area, there were a few challenging dynamics in the group.\n\n\nIt looked like no one was using laptop to take notes (myself included), emergently so (no one was told not to use their laptop). While \u201cno laptop\u201d meetings are often praised for focus & attention, they do have several downsides.\n\n\nFirst, no one is writing anything down, so follow-up discussions become difficult, or rather, it becomes likely that past discussions will be repeated without any new information. Caught in a loop. History repeating.\n\n\nSecond, with only speaking and no writing or note-taking, conversations tend to become more reactive, less thoughtful, and more about the individuals & personalities than about the subject matter.\n\n\nI noticed that one participant in particular was much more forceful and spoke a lot more than anyone else in the group, asserting all kinds of domain knowledge (usually without citation or reasoning). Normally I tend to question this kind of behavior, but this time I decided to listen and observe instead. On a session about reputation, how would this person\u2019s behavior affect their dynamic reputation in this group?\n\n\nEventually Kate was able to ask questions and prompt others who were quiet to speak-up, which was good to see. \n\nDecentralized identity\n\nWe did not get into any deep discussions of any specific decentralized identity systems, and that was perhaps ok. Mostly there discussion about the downsides of centrally controlled identity, and how each of us wanted more control over various aspects of our online identities.\n\n\nFor anyone who asked, I posited that a good way to start with decentralized identity was to \nbuy and use a personal domain name \nfor your primary online presence, \nsetting it up to sign-into sites, \nand build a reputation using that. Since you can pick the domain name, you can pick whatever facet(s) of your identity you wish to represent. It may not be perfectly distributed, however it does work today, and is a good way to explore a lot of the questions and challenges of decentralized identity.\n\nThe Nirvana Fallacy\n\nAnother challenge discussing various systems both critically, and aspirationally, was the inability to really assess how \u201creal\u201d any examples were, or applicable to any of us, or their usability, or even if they were deployed in any even experimental way instead of just being a white paper proposal.\n\n\nThis was a common theme in several sessions, that of comparing the downsides of real existing systems with the aspirational features of conceived but unimplemented systems. I had just recently come across a name for this phenomenon, and like many things you learn about, was starting to see it a lot: \nThe Nirvana Fallacy.\nI didn\u2019t bring it up in this session but rather tried to keep it in mind as a way to assess various comparisons.\n\nDistributed reputation\n\nAfter lunch sessions are always a bit of a challenge. People are full or tired. I myself was already feeling a bit spent from the lightning talk and the session Kevin and I had led right after that.\n\n\nAll in all it was a good discussion, even though we couldn\u2019t point to any notes or conclusions. It felt like everyone walked away having learned something from someone else, and in general people got to know each other in a semi-distributed way, starting to build reputation for future interactions.\n\n\nWatching that happen in-person made me wonder if there was some way to apply a similar kind of semi-structured group discussion dynamic as a method for building reputation in the online world. Could there be some way to parse out the dynamics of individual interactions in comments or threads to reflect that back to user in the form of customized per-person-pair reputations that you could view as a recent summary or trends over the years?\n\nPrevious #Redecentralize 2019 posts\nIndieWeb Decentralized Standards and Methods\nLightning talk: Showing redecentralization by example with my personal web site",
        "html": "<p>On Friday 2019-10-25 I participated in \n<a href=\"https://redecentralize.org/events/2019-conference/\">Redecentralize Conference 2019</a>, a one-day unconference in London, England on the topics of decentralisation, privacy, autonomy, and digital infrastructure.\n</p>\n<p>I gave a \n<a href=\"http://tantek.com/2019/298/t1/lightning-talk-redecentralize-rdc19\">3 minute lightning talk</a>, \nhelped run an \n<a href=\"http://tantek.com/2019/301/b1/redecentralize-indieweb-standards-methods\">IndieWeb standards &amp; methods</a> \nsession in the first open slot of the day, and participated in two more sessions. The second open session had no Etherpad notes, so this post is from my one week ago memory recall.\n</p>\n<h2>Decentralized lunch</h2>\n<p>\nAfter the \n<a href=\"http://tantek.com/2019/301/b1/redecentralize-indieweb-standards-methods\">first open session of the day</a>, the Redecentralize confrerence provided a nice informal buffet lunch for participants. Though we picked up our eats from a centralized buffet, people self-organized into their own distributed groups. There were a few folks I knew or had recently met, and many more that I had not. I sat with a few people who looked like they had just started talking and that\u2019s when I met Kate.\n</p>\n<p>\nI asked if she was running a session and she said yes in the next time slot, on decentralized identity and rethinking reputation. She also noted that she wanted to approach it from a human exploration perspective rather than a technical perspective, and was looking to learn from participants. I decided I\u2019d join, looking forward to a humans-first (rather than technology plumbing first) conversation and discussion.\n</p>\n<h2>Discussion circle</h2>\n<p>\nAfter lunch everyone found their way to various sessions or corners of the space to work on their own projects. The space for Kate\u2019s session was an area in the middle of a large room, without a whiteboard or projector. About a half dozen of us assembled chairs in a rough oval to get started.\n</p>\n<p>\nAs we informally chatted a few more people showed up and we broadened our circle. The space was a bit noisy with chatter drifting in from other sessions, yet we could hear each other we if leaned in a little. Kate started us off asking our opinions of the subject matter, experiences, and about existing approaches in contrast to letting any one company control identity and reputation.\n</p>\n<h2>Gaming of centralized systems</h2> \n<p>\nWe spent quite a bit of time on discussing existing online or digital reputation systems, and how portable or not these were. China was a subject of discussion along with the social reputation system that they had put in place that was starting to be used for various purposes. Someone provided the example of people putting their phones into little shaker machines to fake an increased stepcount to increase their reputation in that way. Apparently lots of people are gaming the Chinese systems in many ways. \n</p>\n<h2>Portability and resets</h2>\n<p>\nTwo major concerns were brought up about decentralized reputation systems.\n</p>\n<ol><li>Reputation portability. If you build reputation in one system or service, how do you transfer that reputation to another?</li>\n<li>Reset abuse. If you develop a bad repuation in a system, what is to stop you from deleting that identity, and creating a new one to reset your reputation?\n</li>\n</ol><p>\nNo one had good answers for either. I offered one observation for the latter, which was that as reputation systems evolve over time, the lack of reputation, i.e. someone just starting out (or a reset), is seen as having a default negative reputation, that they have to prove otherwise. For example the old Twitter \u201ceggs\u201d, so called due to the default icons that Twitter (at some point) assigned to new users that were a white cartoon egg on a pastel background. \n</p>\n<p>\nAnother subsequent thought, Twitter\u2019s profile display of when someone joined has also reinforced some of this \u201cdefault negative\u201d reputation, as people are suspicious of accounts that seem to just recently joined Twitter and all of sudden are posting forcefully (especially about political or breaking news stories). Are they bots or state operatives pretending to be someone they\u2019re not? Hard to tell.\n</p>\n<h2>Session dynamics</h2>\n<p>\nWhile Kate did a good job keeping discussions on topic, prompting with new questions when the group appeared to rathole in some area, there were a few challenging dynamics in the group.\n</p>\n<p>\nIt looked like no one was using laptop to take notes (myself included), emergently so (no one was told not to use their laptop). While \u201cno laptop\u201d meetings are often praised for focus &amp; attention, they do have several downsides.\n</p>\n<p>\nFirst, no one is writing anything down, so follow-up discussions become difficult, or rather, it becomes likely that past discussions will be repeated without any new information. Caught in a loop. History repeating.\n</p>\n<p>\nSecond, with only speaking and no writing or note-taking, conversations tend to become more reactive, less thoughtful, and more about the individuals &amp; personalities than about the subject matter.\n</p>\n<p>\nI noticed that one participant in particular was much more forceful and spoke a lot more than anyone else in the group, asserting all kinds of domain knowledge (usually without citation or reasoning). Normally I tend to question this kind of behavior, but this time I decided to listen and observe instead. On a session about reputation, how would this person\u2019s behavior affect their dynamic reputation in this group?\n</p>\n<p>\nEventually Kate was able to ask questions and prompt others who were quiet to speak-up, which was good to see. \n</p>\n<h2>Decentralized identity</h2>\n<p>\nWe did not get into any deep discussions of any specific decentralized identity systems, and that was perhaps ok. Mostly there discussion about the downsides of centrally controlled identity, and how each of us wanted more control over various aspects of our online identities.\n</p>\n<p>\nFor anyone who asked, I posited that a good way to start with decentralized identity was to \n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/personal-domain\">buy and use a personal domain name</a> \nfor your primary online presence, \n<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/How_to_set_up_web_sign-in_on_your_own_domain\">setting it up to sign-into sites</a>, \nand build a reputation using that. Since you can pick the domain name, you can pick whatever facet(s) of your identity you wish to represent. It may not be perfectly distributed, however it does work today, and is a good way to explore a lot of the questions and challenges of decentralized identity.\n</p>\n<h2>The Nirvana Fallacy</h2>\n<p>\nAnother challenge discussing various systems both critically, and aspirationally, was the inability to really assess how \u201creal\u201d any examples were, or applicable to any of us, or their usability, or even if they were deployed in any even experimental way instead of just being a white paper proposal.\n</p>\n<p>\nThis was a common theme in several sessions, that of comparing the downsides of real existing systems with the aspirational features of conceived but unimplemented systems. I had just recently come across a name for this phenomenon, and like many things you learn about, was starting to see it a lot: \n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy\">The Nirvana Fallacy</a>.\nI didn\u2019t bring it up in this session but rather tried to keep it in mind as a way to assess various comparisons.\n</p>\n<h2>Distributed reputation</h2>\n<p>\nAfter lunch sessions are always a bit of a challenge. People are full or tired. I myself was already feeling a bit spent from the lightning talk and the session Kevin and I had led right after that.\n</p>\n<p>\nAll in all it was a good discussion, even though we couldn\u2019t point to any notes or conclusions. It felt like everyone walked away having learned something from someone else, and in general people got to know each other in a semi-distributed way, starting to build reputation for future interactions.\n</p>\n<p>\nWatching that happen in-person made me wonder if there was some way to apply a similar kind of semi-structured group discussion dynamic as a method for building reputation in the online world. Could there be some way to parse out the dynamics of individual interactions in comments or threads to reflect that back to user in the form of customized per-person-pair reputations that you could view as a recent summary or trends over the years?\n</p>\n<h2>Previous #Redecentralize 2019 posts</h2>\n<ul><li><a href=\"http://tantek.com/2019/301/b1/redecentralize-indieweb-standards-methods\">IndieWeb Decentralized Standards and Methods</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://tantek.com/2019/298/t1/lightning-talk-redecentralize-rdc19\">Lightning talk: Showing redecentralization by example with my personal web site</a></li>\n</ul>"
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