The People’s Web
Every day, millions of people rely on independent websites that are mostly created by regular people, weren’t designed as mobile apps, connect deeply to culture, and aren’t run by the giant tech companies. These are a vision of not just what the web once was, but what it can be again.
This really hits home for me. Anil could be describing The Session here:
They often start as a labor of love from one person, or one small, tightly-knit community. The knowledge or information set that they record is considered obscure or even worthless to outsiders, until it becomes so comprehensive that its collective worth is undeniable.
This is a very important message:
Taken together, these sites are as valuable as any of the giant platforms run by the tech titans.
The button on the left just sets your account as being able to publish via brid.gy, the button to the right uses the brid.gy API to start the sign up process with Twitter. Previously trying to syndicate a post to Twitter without having a brid.gy account just reported an error.
The other change is that dobrado now shows menu options for syndicate and destination settings from your Micropub config. You can try them out by logging in at unicyclic.com.
What if I include my u-photo inline in my h-card? 🤔😈 #IndieWeb #microformats #microformats2
Are you a member of the 🕸💍 IndieWeb Webring? Today I added a page for Terms of Use and Frequently Asked Questions!
The webring has mostly been churning along on its own, with a few folks adding themselves here and there. A couple of times folks have shown up in IndieWeb chat to let me know about sites that break the webring, or when they ran into other issues.
Hopefully this page answers some of the more common things that come up. The TL;DR version? The webring is more proof-of-concept than robust-community-service. I’ll do my best, but can’t make any promises! 😅
If you have any questions that aren’t addressed there, please let me know!
Great news - my frontend can do the onboarding procedure! It successfully uploads my h-card and posts a “first post” to the blog, so it won’t be empty.
For now I didn’t do authentication yet. I’m still thinking if I should do password+TOTP auth, just a password or a WebAuthn. Or maybe I could just use indieauth.com directly, but that needs at least one social profile in the h-card, which is not guaranteed right now.
I like https://unicyclic.com/indieweb/‘s implementation of web-actions. @mblaney is that webaction configuration widget open-source?
I knew the past 3 months would be intense, my time was blocked out for work(+travel+organizing+speaking) & ultra training (https://tantek.com/t53e1), and nothing else. Tiring time zone changes and long trail runs meant choosing sleep, missing some NPSF workouts, or being late. IndieWebCamp SF 12/7-8 was my last commitment of 3 months, and I barely had the energy for it after actively observing the TC39 standards meetings that week before. I had no reserve for setbacks (like my water heater breaking the night before I hosted Thanksgiving for family). Such packed time & focus seemingly invited an unexpected & intense arc of joy, a story for another time.
Still making sense of that night after IndieWebCamp SF, despite managing to bake my first blueberry pie (https://tantek.com/t5451). Recovery since has been hard, both from being drained, and from needing to reflect on what I could have done better, to be sustainably better, instead of a crash & burn of sorts. A better friend, healer, and lover, in that order.
For now I’m rebuilding, and small temporal victories are one sign of progress.
Setting up a Staging Server for my Micropub Endpoint
Now I have a Micropub client. Maybe it’s time for Microsub? I’m not sure because Android’s way of dealing with dynamic lists of objects on screen is intimidating.
A mockup for “Train Trip” screen for a location and trip tracker integrated with IndieWeb.
Our second #IndieWebCamp @MozillaBerlin this year, we had amazing participants(2,3), hosted an @OptOutSocial hackathon, and a keynote by founder Teresa(4 📷 @cheukting_ho)!
About a dozen sessions with notes and some with session videos linked from the schedule: https://indieweb.org/2019/Berlin2/Schedule
Last but not least, great working with co-organizers Yulia (@ioctaptceb), @RosemaryOrchard, and @DShanske to put it all together and discuss community at the Organizers meetup the day before the camp(5).
Previously: https://tantek.com/2019/327/t1/amazing-start-indiewebcamp-berlin
#VictoryColumn #IndieWeb #community #organizers #grateful #2019_328 #20191124 #latergram #nofilter
The Accidental Side Project ◆ 24 ways
This gets me right in the feels.
I can’t believe I was lucky enough to contribute to 24 Ways seven times over its fifteen year lifespan!