Looking forward to seeing folks tonight at 1730 for #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham! https://events.indieweb.org/2020/08/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-yPtwtlpRRU0p
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
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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.
Hugo’s a good un but you might personally like Hakyll… jaspervdj.be/hakyll/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
One nice way to get comments on a static site is webmentions – indieweb.org/Webmention
Also on:Matt made this website to explain RSS to people who are as-ye unfamilar with it.
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.
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.
Currently at https://events.indieweb.org/2020/08/indieauth-1-1-identity-protocol-standards-session-6xlxgeCEMgv8 talking shop about http://indieauth.spec.indieweb.org/.