@shoq @jeffjarvis @mmasnick @davetroy @dangillmor @stux @tchambers @cgerrish
1. Yes - I am in a lot of slacks regularly, and some discord too, and some WhatsApp and a telegram.
2. I co-moderate the indieweb chat.
3. Chat is good for discussion and bad for reference. Email is bad at both. The way we square the circle in #IndieWeb is to have an associated wiki to document things that can be referred to, and a bit that couples between the chat and the wiki to make that easier and more useful.

Playing with ActivityPub

And that's it. A failure for the #openWeb and the #indieWeb to gain traction reduces the opportunity for innovation in a vicious circle that ends up affecting not only the ones that (wrongly) couldn't care less about it, but also the ones that do. The wane in #Mastodon's growth isn't something to despair about, but it isn't anything to celebrate either.

/EOT

Are there any #WordPress or #IndieWeb heads who can help me out? Site Health is saying the authorization header was not returned, even though I added the requisite line (the second one, actually) to my .htaccess file ages ago. Is this a ‘talk to my host’ issue?

Does anyone have recommendations for open-source self-hosted web-based photo gallery software that can be secured behind some kind of authentication & authorization mechanism? i.e. I'd like to be able to share specific groups of photos with specific people.

#opensource #selfhosting #photo #photography #gallery #authentication #authorization #indieweb

This essay is timely with the reawakening of the web as #IndieWeb and the #fediverse. We see it in the blank incomprehension of those used to the silos of adtech hegemony when confronted by an actual complex distributed structure and how it responds to their appeals to authority or conspiracy theories.

ugh... I'd noticed the change in behavior for following links to posts and profiles *within* the web app on #Mastdodon 4, but I hadn't looked to see that the *actual* post and profile web pages do not actually contain the post or profile content, just JavaScript and the metadata to load it.

https://snarfed.org/2022-12-03_48181

In essense, Mastodon profiles and posts are no longer actually interoperable parts of the web. Or as #indieweb puts it: #jsdr

Likewise, I wonder about adding ?utm_source=indieweb to my outgoing #indieweb website links. One domain is a single referrer that shows up in logs; if a bunch of us do that, it's clear that it's a movement.

@albinanigans signing into things with a URL that is your own is a good idea, but OpenID drifted from that into a mess of confusing specs, and got deprecated. OAuth solves the same broad goal, but also drifted a bit so that it ends up being different for each provider.
IndieAuth is an OAuth based model for doing what OpenID originally did. https://indieweb.org/Indieauth #IndieWeb

Tried to have a conversation with a caller regarding my technical background... he of course, wasn't up for hearing how I first entered the server admin sector around ten years ago, now, so while I'm not as seasoned as some of my fellow builders in the #Indieweb community, I'm getting a little time on me now. And with the fast pace of tech these days, that isn't always such a good thing.

For today's #followfriday I'd like y'all to check out @lonseidman.

Lon has been one of my favorite #technology reviewers for over 10 years and he specializes in showcasing inexpensive and useful technology that the masses may not now about yet. Brilliant man, great content and extremely personable. He also just showed up to the #fediverse recently so check it him out!

#indieweb is also https://blog.lon.tv

How many #Indieweb folks would be interested in working on such an open source undertaking? I can think of possibly one person; they go by Saphire on IRC. Any others?

I wanted to change my #IndieWeb u-photo but I can't since it has spread to god-knows-where. Great system.
I have stopped processing and displaying pictures of others regardless of their (implicit) consent. And no, brid.gy does not equal giving consent.

I read a bunch of articles "import your masto toots into WHATEVERFASHIONABLE blog tool" because of PESOS.

every #mastodon account has a built in rss feed (just add .rss to the account‘s page like https://masto.futbol/@oldschooldev.rss) and you can use every existing plugin to import a rss feed. #indieweb

#Elk is already a great user experience. This will be am important piece of the #Indieweb and #fediverse ecosystem, to have a client that looks and feels modern and is nice to use.

@m2m I suppose so! I logged on but didn't do a particular thing, as far as I remember, but things are running quite nicely. Are you telling me it's as simple as logging in? If so, that's the most straight-forward accomplishment I've had with the #IndieWeb so far. 🥳

@chrisaldrich

This cannot be boosted hard enough. Especially as I'm looking to use ActivityPub and #IndieWeb stuff together as a commenting and forum system for my personal site...

Damn. That didn't work. Trying to figure out how to pass the "exercise" microformat with a link to activity since Strava is being a jerk about this and not passing info if it's not a ride/walk/run. &h=entry&exercise doesn't work, so next I'll try &h=entry&kind=exercise. #indieweb #WillMakeThisWork

The Quick Start page at https://indieweb.org/Quick_Start has some inexpensive and user friendly options as well as some indication of their levels of IndieWeb friendliness. Beyond this, WordPress has a reasonably low self-host bar with lots of options depending on how much time you want to spend on the hosting/maintenance.

#indieweb #self-hosting

https://boffosocko.com/2022/12/08/55812509/