So I sorted my Webmention sending issue after an incredibly frustrating day of fighting with Jackson parsing my XML sitemap. I'm still not sure what the issue was, as I've ended up replacing my POJO with another one, but 🤷🏽‍♂️ at least Webmentions are sending again
If anyone is currently posting photos to WordPress using micropub that syndicates to Twitter using brid.gy, please raise your hand & share your template.
Woops, looks like I broke my Webmention sending yesterday when I upgraded all my versions of Spring / Spring Boot. That'd explain why things haven't syndicated to Twitter today. Film time now, so will fix tomorrow!
I interact a lot with Twitter from my website, and as such the interactions you see are i.e. "Like of @indiewebcamp's tweet" which isn't super helpful. So I've just added the ability to mark up my interactions with some context of what the post was so it's eaiser to see without navigating there.
This is using the awesome https://granary.io/ and will hopefully make reading Twitter interactions through my site much nicer!
You can see https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2020/02/ihnc5/ for an example of what it'll look like (including photos!), and https://indieweb.org/reply-context for more info from around the #indieweb
alias mf2json='python3 -c '\''import mf2py, sys, json; print(json.dumps(mf2py.parse(url=sys.argv[])))'\''' #IndieWeb #bash #climagic
Woops by making the changes in https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2020/01/washd/ I've also broken my Micropub endpoint's ability to RSVP to meetups, as the response is coming back with a new location format. Oops!
Thoughts on Writing: What They Say · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
We all want to create successful work. We want our voices to be heard. We all want to be recognized or, at least, respected. But instead of trying to please everyone, you should deep down inside of you accept the fact that it is not yours to decide if others like your work. This will give you immense freedom. Suddenly, you can start to just write, without worrying whether your readers like what you’re saying or how you are saying it.
Strong agree.
And here is what the new notifications look like for https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/01/12/webmention-notifications/ for my webmentions
Woops, after spending ~40 mins working on getting my Webmention notifications (https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/01/12/webmention-notifications/) to send the author's avatar in the notification, I've now realised the Pushover API doesn't support it. Doh!
I've just updated https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/01/12/webmention-notifications/ to mention that I've replaced Pushbullet with Pushover for my Webmention notifications service! Looking forward to getting lots of lovely push notifications, again!
This blog is more like a trilogy than a single work, (or at least the first three parts in a series:
- Book 1 (parts 1 & 2) are all about social media - it's two parts because I took a hiatus,
- Book 2 - ownership, control and the Indieweb, setting the scene
- Book 3 - more personal, more about me and how I'm dealing with things
Book 1 was me trying to be something I wasn't, exploring an exciting time but doing so in a way that was trying to force things, trying to be the next someone else and not me, trying to be found.
Book 2 was a voyage of discovery, almost a rebellion against the whole idea of the first part. It was still, perhaps, me trying to be something else, not entirely myself but it was a definite improvement.
Book 3 takes the lessons from book 2, strips them down and gets to work. It's where I wish I always had been.
The old blog (2003 - 2008) was a mixture, very much a rough draft written by an inexperienced hand. It mixed the personal with the geeky but not in such a pretentious way. It served almost as a template for what I'm doing now. Now, however, I'm a better writer, a deeper thinker, more at ease with what I'm doing.
There are times I wish I hadn't taken breaks, hadn't moved my writing away from the blog, but then wonder if I would still be stuck writing Book 1, never progressing. I realise that, although it leaves gaps, I needed to step away to move on to the next part.
Some can claim to have blogged every day for the past 15 or 20 years and I say good luck to them, they were lucky to have found their voice early. I have had to rediscover my voice both figuratively and literally and am still finding it now, but it's mine, not an approximation or impression of anyone else.
And that is all I could ask for.
Some thoughts:
* people over tech (it’s not neutral)
* empower those more vulnerable, less privileged
* simple, minimal, secure, private by default
* accessible to view, author, *and* code
Previously:
* https://tantek.com/2020/009/t1/technology-force-multiplier-not-neutral
* https://tantek.com/2019/353/t1/tech-plumbing-framing-dweb-problematic
* https://tantek.com/2020/010/t2/indieweb-community-inclusive-anarchistic-punk
* https://tantek.com/2018/133/t1/mozilla-manifesto-addendum
Re-reading:
* https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/
* https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
* https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/
* https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/ethical-web-principles/
And considering the problems with the "Contract for the Web" (https://contractfortheweb.org/) such as numerous signatories that actively violate its own principles, and profit from doing so.
Rebecca writes that it's nice to receive comments directly on her blog,
"... but then, comments haven't exactly disappeared. They are well and alive on Facebook and Instagram, but why does it just feel different?"
As J said recently, "we got away from visiting the sites themselves." By living in various social and other feeds we have distanced ourselves from the original source, disconnected the conversations. The convenience offered allows us to subscribe to more and more, in many cases we don't even need to visit the original site to get an RSS feed, for example - the tools will do that for us.
The more we fill our feeds the harder it becomes to revert to source, browsing so many pages is no longer an option.
With webmentions we can pipe remote comments to our own site using the power of the #indieweb (let's face it, micro.blog is essentially a commenting system for me) but even then it feels special for someone to come directly to your site.
It's not just about control and ownership of the conversation, it's a recognition of the time they have invested in you as "it takes effort for people to find their way to personal websites / blogs".
Minimum viable social actions may give an initial, instant dopamine hit but are ultimately worthless. The extra effort is so worth it.
Does this work with IndieWeb readers and does it work without JS? (if it does work without JS it will probably work with an IndieWeb reader)