{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@charlesroper",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@charlesroper",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@charlesroper/109513599501077951",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mstdn.social/@jdrev\">@<span>jdrev</span></a></span> Me too. \u2764\ufe0f  <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "@jdrev Me too. \u2764\ufe0f  #IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2022-12-14T19:08:34+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33691647",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://starkey.family/objects/99f7ca4a-a1c3-4864-9cbd-1c73d456d1db",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@marksuth\">@<span>marksuth</span></a></span> Hi! I\u2019ve been exploring IndieWeb more and noticed you are maintaining <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Indigenous\">https://indieweb.org/Indigenous</a> \u2013 the link the the app in the iOS app store doesn\u2019t seem to work for me. Is it available in the USA? <a href=\"https://starkey.family/tag/indieweb\">#IndieWeb</a></p>",
        "text": "@marksuth Hi! I\u2019ve been exploring IndieWeb more and noticed you are maintaining https://indieweb.org/Indigenous \u2013 the link the the app in the iOS app store doesn\u2019t seem to work for me. Is it available in the USA? #IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2022-12-14T18:14:47+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33690300",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@axbom",
        "url": "https://social.xbm.se/@axbom",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.xbm.se/@axbom/109513301319305288",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>In case you haven't taken notice yet, Twitter is also killing its newsletter platform Revue. Complete shutdown in January. </p><p>Lots of unplanned holiday hustle for everyone still on that platform.</p><p>The evidence for the benefits of going the <a href=\"https://social.xbm.se/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> route is growing with every Muskederian decision.</p>",
        "text": "In case you haven't taken notice yet, Twitter is also killing its newsletter platform Revue. Complete shutdown in January. Lots of unplanned holiday hustle for everyone still on that platform.The evidence for the benefits of going the #indieweb route is growing with every Muskederian decision."
    },
    "published": "2022-12-14T17:52:44+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33689743",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
}

Building an open share button for the distributed social web

{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-12-12T17:31:52+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/%2022/building-an-open-share-button-for-the-distributed-social-web",
    "name": "Building an open share button for the distributed social web",
    "content": {
        "text": "Thinking through a \u201cshare with Mastodon\u201d button that anyone could embed on a website. It\u2019s a harder problem than a \u201cshare with Twitter\u201d button, because there\u2019s no one central host, and it would be ideal to avoid creating a central location to handle these requests. (Mastodon is decentralized, after all.)As a bonus, I think it would work for indieweb or any other decentralized social platform. Maybe any social platform at all?This would all be easier if web intents had stuck around. Nonetheless, here\u2019s how it might work. Let\u2019s call it \u201cmicroshare\u201d, to sit alongside micropub:User clicks button on page.\nJS on the page detects whether the web+social URI scheme has been registered (I wish this was easier, but you can do this by making an asynchronous request and waiting for it to succeed or fail).\nIf it has, great! Just forward the user to that URI.\nIf not, ask the user what the domain of their social profile is.\nJS (or a back-end server process) goes and fetches that base URL and looks for either a microshare metatag or an HTTP header of the form Link: <https://example.com/microshare&>;; rel=\"microshare\". (Mastodon etc would need to support this endpoint and discovery of same.)\nIf the endpoint exists, the browser opens a new tab and forwards the user to that URI with additional text and url URL string parameters populated with the name and the URL of the page being shared respectively.\nThis new page contains a button to register the URI as the handler for the web+social URI scheme. It may also either prompt the user to log in, or, if they\u2019re already logged in, share to that social platform, with the text and URL pre-filled into the form.\nThere are a few issues here that I\u2019d like to iterate on: I wish URI scheme handling and detection was easier in a browser, for one. Secondly, there\u2019s a potential phishing attack where a malicious website could show a fake login page and harvest someone\u2019s login credentials.Still, what I like about it is that it uses the web\u2019s existing capabilities and doesn\u2019t enforce a central domain handler (or even a domain as a shim). While it seems more convoluted than a standard href link (and it is), it can be achieved on publisher websites with just a few lines of JavaScript.I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve missed something important, but I wanted to kick this off as a first step. Let me know what you think!",
        "html": "<p>Thinking through a \u201cshare with Mastodon\u201d button that anyone could embed on a website. It\u2019s a harder problem than a \u201cshare with Twitter\u201d button, because there\u2019s no one central host, and it would be ideal to avoid creating a central location to handle these requests. (Mastodon is decentralized, after all.)</p><p>As a bonus, I think it would work for indieweb or any other decentralized social platform. Maybe any social platform at all?</p><p>This would all be easier if <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Intents\">web intents</a> had stuck around. Nonetheless, here\u2019s how it might work. Let\u2019s call it \u201cmicroshare\u201d, to sit alongside <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Micropub\">micropub</a>:</p><ol><li>User clicks button on page.</li>\n<li>JS on the page detects whether the <code>web+social</code> URI scheme has been registered (I wish this was easier, but you can do this by making an asynchronous request and waiting for it to succeed or fail).</li>\n<li>If it has, great! Just forward the user to that URI.</li>\n<li>If not, ask the user what the domain of their social profile is.</li>\n<li>JS (or a back-end server process) goes and fetches that base URL and looks for either a <code>microshare</code> metatag or an HTTP header of the form <code>Link: &lt;<a href=\"https://example.com/microshare&amp;gt\">https://example.com/microshare&amp;&gt;</a>;; rel=\"microshare\"</code>. (Mastodon etc would need to support this endpoint and discovery of same.)</li>\n<li>If the endpoint exists, the browser opens a new tab and forwards the user to that URI with additional <code>text</code> and <code>url</code> URL string parameters populated with the name and the URL of the page being shared respectively.</li>\n<li>This new page contains a button to register the URI as the handler for the <code>web+social</code> URI scheme. It may also either prompt the user to log in, or, if they\u2019re already logged in, share to that social platform, with the text and URL pre-filled into the form.</li>\n</ol><p>There are a few issues here that I\u2019d like to iterate on: I wish URI scheme handling and detection was easier in a browser, for one. Secondly, there\u2019s a potential phishing attack where a malicious website could show a fake login page and harvest someone\u2019s login credentials.</p><p>Still, what I like about it is that it uses the web\u2019s existing capabilities and doesn\u2019t enforce a central domain handler (or even a domain as a shim). While it seems more convoluted than a standard href link (and it is), it can be achieved on publisher websites with just a few lines of JavaScript.</p><p>I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve missed something important, but I wanted to kick this off as a first step. Let me know what you think!</p>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Ben Werdmuller",
        "url": "https://werd.io/profile/benwerd",
        "photo": "https://werd.io/file/5d388c5fb16ea14aac640912/thumb.jpg"
    },
    "post-type": "article",
    "_id": "33689619",
    "_source": "191",
    "_is_read": true
}

Playing with ActivityPub

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-12-10T20:38:34+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/%2022/playing-with-activitypub",
    "category": [
        "Coding"
    ],
    "bookmark-of": [
        "https://macwright.com/2022/12/09/activitypub.html"
    ],
    "name": "Playing with ActivityPub",
    "content": {
        "text": "\u201cWhat I built isn\u2019t an ActivityPub system as much as a Mastodon-compatible one. I think this is the key contradiction of the ActivityPub system: it\u2019s a specification broad enough to encompass many different services, but ends up being too general to be useful by itself.\u201d Interesting - I\u2019m not far enough along in my own journey to see if I agree. But it sounds like there\u2019s scope for a lot more standardization here. #Coding",
        "html": "<p>\u201cWhat I built isn\u2019t an ActivityPub system as much as a Mastodon-compatible one. I think this is the key contradiction of the ActivityPub system: it\u2019s a specification broad enough to encompass many different services, but ends up being too general to be useful by itself.\u201d Interesting - I\u2019m not far enough along in my own journey to see if I agree. But it sounds like there\u2019s scope for a lot more standardization here. <a href=\"https://werd.io/tag/Coding\" class=\"p-category\">#Coding</a></p>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Ben Werdmuller",
        "url": "https://werd.io/profile/benwerd",
        "photo": "https://werd.io/file/5d388c5fb16ea14aac640912/thumb.jpg"
    },
    "post-type": "bookmark",
    "_id": "33689624",
    "_source": "191",
    "_is_read": true
}

A Creator of ActivityPub on What’s Next for the Fediverse

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-12-07T23:01:54+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/%2022/a-creator-of-activitypub-on-whats-next-for-the-fediverse",
    "category": [
        "Technology"
    ],
    "bookmark-of": [
        "https://thenewstack.io/the-creator-of-activitypub-on-whats-next-for-the-fediverse/"
    ],
    "name": "A Creator of ActivityPub on What\u2019s Next for the Fediverse",
    "content": {
        "text": "\u201cAs well as technical improvements he\u2019d like to see, Prodromou has thoughts on what the fediverse can ultimately become. He thinks it will take some time for people to \u201cdetox from their Twitter experience\u201d and realize that their social media world is no longer subject to corporate manipulation.\u201d #Technology",
        "html": "<p>\u201cAs well as technical improvements he\u2019d like to see, Prodromou has thoughts on what the fediverse can ultimately become. He thinks it will take some time for people to \u201cdetox from their Twitter experience\u201d and realize that their social media world is no longer subject to corporate manipulation.\u201d <a href=\"https://werd.io/tag/Technology\" class=\"p-category\">#Technology</a></p>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Ben Werdmuller",
        "url": "https://werd.io/profile/benwerd",
        "photo": "https://werd.io/file/5d388c5fb16ea14aac640912/thumb.jpg"
    },
    "post-type": "bookmark",
    "_id": "33689643",
    "_source": "191",
    "_is_read": true
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@nicklewis",
        "url": "https://octodon.social/@nicklewis",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://octodon.social/@nicklewis/109513019970584982",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mstdn.social/@WealdenWordsmith\">@<span>WealdenWordsmith</span></a></span> shared a great tip for expanding your network on <a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/mastodon\">#<span>mastodon</span></a> and so I've decided to share my list of key interests, in no particular order:</p><p><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/javascript\">#<span>javascript</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/vuejs\">#<span>vuejs</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/css\">#<span>css</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/jamstack\">#<span>jamstack</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/cms\">#<span>cms</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/synths\">#<span>synths</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/modularsynths\">#<span>modularsynths</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/vcvrack\">#<span>vcvrack</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/bitwig\">#<span>bitwig</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/ios\">#<span>ios</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/music\">#<span>music</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/idm\">#<span>idm</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/walking\">#<span>walking</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/art\">#<span>art</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/kayaking\">#<span>kayaking</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/photography\">#<span>photography</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/ClimateEmergency\">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/cake\">#<span>cake</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/food\">#<span>food</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/travel\">#<span>travel</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/science\">#<span>science</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/nature\">#<span>nature</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://octodon.social/tags/wildlife\">#<span>wildlife</span></a></p><p>I could go on but that'll do for now!</p>",
        "text": "@WealdenWordsmith shared a great tip for expanding your network on #mastodon and so I've decided to share my list of key interests, in no particular order:#indieweb\n#javascript\n#vuejs\n#css\n#jamstack\n#cms\n#synths\n#modularsynths\n#vcvrack\n#bitwig\n#ios\n#music\n#idm\n#walking\n#art\n#kayaking\n#photography\n#ClimateEmergency\n#cake\n#food\n#travel\n#blogging\n#science\n#nature\n#wildlifeI could go on but that'll do for now!"
    },
    "published": "2022-12-14T16:41:11+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33687793",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@mehulkar",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@mehulkar",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@mehulkar/109510985122269053",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Spent an hour playing around with Enhance.dev. First impressions </p><p><a href=\"https://www.mehulkar.com/blog/2022/12/one-hour-with-enhance/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>mehulkar.com/blog/2022/12/one-</span><span>hour-with-enhance/</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/enhance\">#<span>enhance</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/frontend\">#<span>frontend</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Spent an hour playing around with Enhance.dev. First impressions https://www.mehulkar.com/blog/2022/12/one-hour-with-enhance/ #enhance #frontend #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2022-12-14T08:03:42+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33676790",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@mjgardner",
        "url": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mjgardner",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mjgardner/109510896241113399",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.africa/@wogan\">@<span>wogan</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://campaign.openworlds.info/@michaelgraaf\">@<span>michaelgraaf</span></a></span> Seriously. (cough <a href=\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> cough)</p>",
        "text": "@wogan @michaelgraaf Seriously. (cough #IndieWeb cough)"
    },
    "published": "2022-12-14T07:41:05+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33676791",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@mikewmerritt",
        "url": "https://masto.ai/@mikewmerritt",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://masto.ai/@mikewmerritt/109510596024444916",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://indieweb.social/@meadowhawk\">@<span>meadowhawk</span></a></span> JSON-LD seems to have taken over for sure but a lot of the <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> folks are strongly in favor of microformats for blog &amp; ActivityPub-enabled post markup/parsing. I'm guessing because the primary JSON-LD format is in large part guided by Google but I am not sure.</p>",
        "text": "@meadowhawk JSON-LD seems to have taken over for sure but a lot of the #IndieWeb folks are strongly in favor of microformats for blog & ActivityPub-enabled post markup/parsing. I'm guessing because the primary JSON-LD format is in large part guided by Google but I am not sure."
    },
    "published": "2022-12-14T06:24:44+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33675953",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@tchambers",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@tchambers",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/109510131119793140",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Which <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/calmtech\">#<span>calmtech</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Fediverse\">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> or <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/OpenWeb\">#<span>OpenWeb</span></a> related web content is in RSS form but not yet on the Mastodon platform yet. Am considering making several more new official RSS-to-Mastodon bots to get good content injected into this platform that isn't here yet.</p><p> https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/<br /> https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/<br /> https://blog.mozilla.org/en/category/products/fire<br /> Other? (Put it in comments)</p>",
        "text": "Which #Indieweb #calmtech #Fediverse or #OpenWeb related web content is in RSS form but not yet on the Mastodon platform yet. Am considering making several more new official RSS-to-Mastodon bots to get good content injected into this platform that isn't here yet. https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/\n https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/\n https://blog.mozilla.org/en/category/products/fire\n Other? (Put it in comments)"
    },
    "published": "2022-12-14T04:26:30+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33674540",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@cassey",
        "url": "https://carhenge.club/@cassey",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://carhenge.club/@cassey/109508159133633873",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@lethain\">@<span>lethain</span></a></span> What a thoughtful recap, thank you for sharing! </p><p>Re: analytics, if you're up for a switch from Github Pages to Netlify as your host, Netlify Analytics is an add-on to the free plan at $9/month for up to 250k views. It's nice! Analytics on the server side, so you'll see pageview counts even if users have trackers blocked, and generally is more user-privacy respecting than Google Analytics or other 3rd party trackers. <br /><a href=\"https://carhenge.club/tags/netlify\">#<span>netlify</span></a> <a href=\"https://carhenge.club/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "@lethain What a thoughtful recap, thank you for sharing! Re: analytics, if you're up for a switch from Github Pages to Netlify as your host, Netlify Analytics is an add-on to the free plan at $9/month for up to 250k views. It's nice! Analytics on the server side, so you'll see pageview counts even if users have trackers blocked, and generally is more user-privacy respecting than Google Analytics or other 3rd party trackers. \n#netlify #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2022-12-13T20:05:00+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33665780",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://www.frederickcalica.com/2022/12/13/3339542/",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Trakt is still down. Note to self when the service is up: scrape and make an offline backup of viewing logs and watchlists then probably a static webpage version of that on my self-hosted site. #IndieWeb</p><p><a href=\"https://www.frederickcalica.com/2022/12/13/3339542/\">https://www.frederickcalica.com/2022/12/13/3339542/</a></p>",
        "text": "Trakt is still down. Note to self when the service is up: scrape and make an offline backup of viewing logs and watchlists then probably a static webpage version of that on my self-hosted site. #IndieWebhttps://www.frederickcalica.com/2022/12/13/3339542/"
    },
    "published": "2022-12-13T01:04:43+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33648925",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@fluffy",
        "url": "https://plush.city/@fluffy",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://plush.city/@fluffy/109502668388435966",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.lol/@albinanigans\">@<span>albinanigans</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mstdn.social/@kissane\">@<span>kissane</span></a></span> This is why I\u2019m primarily into <a href=\"https://plush.city/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> these days.</p>",
        "text": "@albinanigans @kissane This is why I\u2019m primarily into #indieweb these days."
    },
    "published": "2022-12-12T20:48:38+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33637496",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@mjgardner",
        "url": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mjgardner",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mjgardner/109502208258503274",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.world/@ruud\">@<span>ruud</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mstdn.social/@indubitablydubin\">@<span>indubitablydubin</span></a></span> I favor more radical decentralization where I own my own site that still federates. Not necessarily <a href=\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Mastodon\">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> but interop via <a href=\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> and <a href=\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a>.</p>",
        "text": "@ruud @indubitablydubin I favor more radical decentralization where I own my own site that still federates. Not necessarily #Mastodon but interop via #ActivityPub and #IndieWeb."
    },
    "published": "2022-12-12T18:51:37+00:00",
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Building an open share button for the distributed social web

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-12-12T17:31:52+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2022/building-an-open-share-button-for-the-distributed-social-web",
    "name": "Building an open share button for the distributed social web",
    "content": {
        "text": "Thinking through a \u201cshare with Mastodon\u201d button that anyone could embed on a website. It\u2019s a harder problem than a \u201cshare with Twitter\u201d button, because there\u2019s no one central host, and it would be ideal to avoid creating a central location to handle these requests. (Mastodon is decentralized, after all.)As a bonus, I think it would work for indieweb or any other decentralized social platform. Maybe any social platform at all?This would all be easier if web intents had stuck around. Nonetheless, here\u2019s how it might work. Let\u2019s call it \u201cmicroshare\u201d, to sit alongside micropub:User clicks button on page.\nJS on the page detects whether the web+social URI scheme has been registered (I wish this was easier, but you can do this by making an asynchronous request and waiting for it to succeed or fail).\nIf it has, great! Just forward the user to that URI.\nIf not, ask the user what the domain of their social profile is.\nJS (or a back-end server process) goes and fetches that base URL and looks for either a microshare metatag or an HTTP header of the form Link: <https://example.com/microshare&>;; rel=\"microshare\". (Mastodon etc would need to support this endpoint and discovery of same.)\nIf the endpoint exists, the browser opens a new tab and forwards the user to that URI with additional text and url URL string parameters populated with the name and the URL of the page being shared respectively.\nThis new page contains a button to register the URI as the handler for the web+social URI scheme. It may also either prompt the user to log in, or, if they\u2019re already logged in, share to that social platform, with the text and URL pre-filled into the form.\nThere are a few issues here that I\u2019d like to iterate on: I wish URI scheme handling and detection was easier in a browser, for one. Secondly, there\u2019s a potential phishing attack where a malicious website could show a fake login page and harvest someone\u2019s login credentials.Still, what I like about it is that it uses the web\u2019s existing capabilities and doesn\u2019t enforce a central domain handler (or even a domain as a shim). While it seems more convoluted than a standard href link (and it is), it can be achieved on publisher websites with just a few lines of JavaScript.I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve missed something important, but I wanted to kick this off as a first step. Let me know what you think!",
        "html": "<p>Thinking through a \u201cshare with Mastodon\u201d button that anyone could embed on a website. It\u2019s a harder problem than a \u201cshare with Twitter\u201d button, because there\u2019s no one central host, and it would be ideal to avoid creating a central location to handle these requests. (Mastodon is decentralized, after all.)</p><p>As a bonus, I think it would work for indieweb or any other decentralized social platform. Maybe any social platform at all?</p><p>This would all be easier if <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Intents\">web intents</a> had stuck around. Nonetheless, here\u2019s how it might work. Let\u2019s call it \u201cmicroshare\u201d, to sit alongside <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Micropub\">micropub</a>:</p><ol><li>User clicks button on page.</li>\n<li>JS on the page detects whether the <code>web+social</code> URI scheme has been registered (I wish this was easier, but you can do this by making an asynchronous request and waiting for it to succeed or fail).</li>\n<li>If it has, great! Just forward the user to that URI.</li>\n<li>If not, ask the user what the domain of their social profile is.</li>\n<li>JS (or a back-end server process) goes and fetches that base URL and looks for either a <code>microshare</code> metatag or an HTTP header of the form <code>Link: &lt;<a href=\"https://example.com/microshare&amp;gt\">https://example.com/microshare&amp;&gt;</a>;; rel=\"microshare\"</code>. (Mastodon etc would need to support this endpoint and discovery of same.)</li>\n<li>If the endpoint exists, the browser opens a new tab and forwards the user to that URI with additional <code>text</code> and <code>url</code> URL string parameters populated with the name and the URL of the page being shared respectively.</li>\n<li>This new page contains a button to register the URI as the handler for the <code>web+social</code> URI scheme. It may also either prompt the user to log in, or, if they\u2019re already logged in, share to that social platform, with the text and URL pre-filled into the form.</li>\n</ol><p>There are a few issues here that I\u2019d like to iterate on: I wish URI scheme handling and detection was easier in a browser, for one. Secondly, there\u2019s a potential phishing attack where a malicious website could show a fake login page and harvest someone\u2019s login credentials.</p><p>Still, what I like about it is that it uses the web\u2019s existing capabilities and doesn\u2019t enforce a central domain handler (or even a domain as a shim). While it seems more convoluted than a standard href link (and it is), it can be achieved on publisher websites with just a few lines of JavaScript.</p><p>I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve missed something important, but I wanted to kick this off as a first step. Let me know what you think!</p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Ben Werdmuller",
        "url": "https://werd.io/profile/benwerd",
        "photo": "https://werd.io/file/5d388c5fb16ea14aac640912/thumb.jpg"
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    "post-type": "article",
    "_id": "33633815",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@mehulkar",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@mehulkar",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@mehulkar/109499601118865749",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Added a Recently Highlighted section from feedly on my website. <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/rss\">#<span>rss</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://www.mehulkar.com/blog/2022/12/recently-highlighted/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>mehulkar.com/blog/2022/12/rece</span><span>ntly-highlighted/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Added a Recently Highlighted section from feedly on my website. #rss #indieweb https://www.mehulkar.com/blog/2022/12/recently-highlighted/"
    },
    "published": "2022-12-12T07:48:35+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33619308",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@mjgardner",
        "url": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mjgardner",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mjgardner/109498930408089588",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://newsie.social/@SusanKraemer\">@<span>SusanKraemer</span></a></span> Next do <a href=\"https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> reposts <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/repost\"><span>https://</span><span>indieweb.org/repost</span><span></span></a></p><p>\u2026quotations <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/quotation\"><span>https://</span><span>indieweb.org/quotation</span><span></span></a></p><p>\u2026and replies <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/reply\"><span>https://</span><span>indieweb.org/reply</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "@SusanKraemer Next do #IndieWeb reposts https://indieweb.org/repost\u2026quotations https://indieweb.org/quotation\u2026and replies https://indieweb.org/reply"
    },
    "published": "2022-12-12T04:58:01+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33616826",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@mikewmerritt",
        "url": "https://masto.ai/@mikewmerritt",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://masto.ai/@mikewmerritt/109498865555428599",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>The ultimate goal is to be able to transform <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/WordPress\">#<span>WordPress</span></a> into a full <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> instance since right now the offerings, though great, lack the ability to fully engage with content in one spot like you can on Mastodon and other services. With the goal achieved, content ownership is secured and essentially extends IndieWeb-style social networking to all web content that can be consumed with an RSS feed and supports <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a>, <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/webmentions\">#<span>webmentions</span></a>, and old-timey trackbacks.</p>",
        "text": "The ultimate goal is to be able to transform #WordPress into a full #IndieWeb instance since right now the offerings, though great, lack the ability to fully engage with content in one spot like you can on Mastodon and other services. With the goal achieved, content ownership is secured and essentially extends IndieWeb-style social networking to all web content that can be consumed with an RSS feed and supports #ActivityPub, #webmentions, and old-timey trackbacks."
    },
    "published": "2022-12-12T04:41:32+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33616827",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@mikewmerritt",
        "url": "https://masto.ai/@mikewmerritt",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://masto.ai/@mikewmerritt/109498727884762384",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Been having fun testing my <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> setup on my <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/WordPress\">#<span>WordPress</span></a> blog. So far can post from it to Mastodon but not Twitter and can reply to posts on both.</p><p>I'm also experimenting with the <a href=\"https://masto.ai/tags/WPFriends\">#<span>WPFriends</span></a> plugin, trying to see if it can replicate feed features to some degree. I've successfully added a Reply button to incoming feed entries, which is not OOB. It works just okay for now. Have to see if the reply source can be more seamlessly integrated to generate a u-in-reply-to.</p>",
        "text": "Been having fun testing my #IndieWeb setup on my #WordPress blog. So far can post from it to Mastodon but not Twitter and can reply to posts on both.I'm also experimenting with the #WPFriends plugin, trying to see if it can replicate feed features to some degree. I've successfully added a Reply button to incoming feed entries, which is not OOB. It works just okay for now. Have to see if the reply source can be more seamlessly integrated to generate a u-in-reply-to."
    },
    "published": "2022-12-12T04:06:31+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "33616099",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": true
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