A very broken desktop client for Mastodon (probably could support Pleroma and Pixelfed) and Microsub (IndieWeb so it can support silos like Twitter).

In the works.

Going to spend this week only on Rust/Qt stuff and take a break from explicit Web development. Mainly going to see if I can get some light support for Microformats2 + IndieAuth + Micropub in ActivityDesk at https://git.jacky.wtf/fediverse/activitydesk. Looks like I got a pull request for it at https://invent.kde.org/jalcine/activitydesk/-/merge_requests/2/diffs

Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham on Wednesday! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2020/08/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-yPtwtlpRRU0p

#homebrew-website-club

Is rel=sponsored known to the Microformats community? Or is this a Google-ism? https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/1295371010124939265

For real though, I’ve been thinking more and more about the stuff I do on the side and the usefulness of it. I half promised a competitor to a platform BY myself in less time (grossly overestimating the effort and care it takes to build these platforms) and now I sometimes feel like I’ve wasted two years of my life on this stuff. It’s not like I don’t believe in the open social Web, I just challenge my thoughts on its viability in the next decade as well as the active moves working to divest from things like it into more proprietary stacks.

One thing that trips me up a lot is how a lot of the stuff in the open social Web is stuck on text (barely anything around multimedia). Text seems easy but photos require a whole different level of care and thought that’s consistently an afterthought. I don’t see much nudging on it in the IndieWeb - some progress on handling them is made in mainline projects like Mastodon but again, it’s marginal. It’s not that people are playing to catch up - I don’t think this is an interest for most at all (and it’s a safe way to prevent any of the harm found in silos from leaking into our space) but I do think we should be aiming to ween people off these platforms. I see more and more asks for alternatives and I can’t even comfortably recommend most that meet feature parity.

I’m sad. And I’m hoping to use this as motivation to keep hammering on things.

#open social web #itch #indieweb #thoughts
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Good to hear! I think generated flat files are the future. How much electricity is wasted by compiling php every page load? I'm looking at something similar called hugo atm. TBH no-one comments on blogs any more anyway :/ It'd be nice to keep the old ones though..

— Alex McLean (@yaxu) August 13, 2020
Hugo’s a good un but you might personally like Hakyll… jaspervdj.be/hakyll/

One nice way to get comments on a static site is webmentions – indieweb.org/Webmention

Also on:

Twitter

About Feeds | Getting Started guide to web feeds/RSS

Matt made this website to explain RSS to people who are as-ye unfamilar with it.

#rss #feeds #syndication #explanation #explainer #subscribe #subscriptions #newsreaders #feedreaders #indieweb

My ban on EU website traffic has been lifted.

Experiment with FourSquare, WordPress and the Keyring Social Importers plugin

Making an #IndieAuth authorization endpoint. #indieweb #webdesign

#IndieAuth #IndieWeb #webdesign

Plaidophile: Two PSAs regarding IndieAuth

This bit around compiling and rendering sounds specific to the problems with using static sites. If it’s done completely remotely, to the level that something like Disqus or Commento could handle it, it’d just handle a fraction of what Webmentions are capable of. This, of course, requires time and effort to build. And since there isn’t a huge VC company backing such a notion, we won’t see it anytime soon.

M.A. Matienzo

Optimizing friction

Over and in response to the last few months, I’ve been reflecting about intentionality, and how I spend my time creating things. I have tried to improve the indiewebbiness of my site, and understanding what it means to “scratch my own itch”. This resonates particularly lately because it’s leading me to mull over which parts should be hard and easy. Unsurprisingly, much of that is personal preference, and figuring out how I want to optimize from the perspective of user experience. Friction in UX can be a powerful tool, part of what I’m trying to find is where I want to retain friction as it helps me remain intentional.
#indieweb #music #plan9 #food

A tapestry of humanity and what we know

I’m not explicitly sure but from the large demographic of people on Parler that seem to conflate the First Amendment to apply to social media companies and not who it’s intended for (the feds), I’d personally block that whole site from my IndieWeb setup.

going to part of the IndieAuth Pop-up Session
🗓 9:30-11:30am PDT, Sat 8/8
🎟 RSVP: https://events.indieweb.org/2020/08/indieauth-1-1-identity-protocol-standards-session-6xlxgeCEMgv8

#IndieAuth is the most implemented decentralized #identity #protocol, built on #OAuth 2.

#IndieWeb #OpenWeb #WebIdentity
#noBlockchain needed
#IndieAuth #identity #protocol #OAuth #IndieWeb #OpenWeb #WebIdentity #noBlockchain

For some reason specific to Bluebird, I can’t get the Microformats JavaScript library working. I can see how this would be a huge road block for anyone wanting to build IndieWeb stuff if a core component of it (Microformats) can’t be worked. Lemme see if I can reproduce this and figure out if it can be patched.