New blog post: #WordPress, Your Hub in a Decentralized World
https://remkus.devries.frl/wordpress-your-hub-in-a-decentralized-world/
Spoiler alert: featuring #ActivityPub and #IndieWeb
Importing Tweets to WordPress
I joined Twitter in April of 2008. I have participated mostly as a lurker but have contributed 3,589 tweets. Since I have been introduced to the IndieWeb concept, one of my goals has been to find a way to import my tweets into WordPress.
DsgnWrks Twitter Importer Plugin
I found a plugin, DsgnWrks Twitter Importer, which was not tested w
https://tmichellemoore.com/blog/importing-tweets-to-wordpress/
@tchambers could use a boost to let folk know about this neat #IndieWeb technique (riffing on the shoulders of giants):
On my inexpensive cPanel web host, I have created a couple of redirects to make my #Mastodon #Fediverse presence more resilient.
If you want to find me, no matter what instance I move to, you can always find me by visiting:
Or searching for this handle:
@charles[at]roper.im
These will redirect to my current instance+handle. Anywhere I share my link or my handle will now always redirect to the right place. No link rot!
#FediTips #MastodonTips #IndieWeb
Howto:
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Ohhh ... Imagine a #Fediverse with independent instances where users are using independent apps! ... sounds like ... like #IndieWeb! 😆 Can't wait...
so, I'm slightly curious if the folks building #SmallWeb have any specific quirks or differences from #IndieWeb (#POSSE / #WebMention & other standards)
@aral I get what you’re saying in the article about how individual servers are the endgame, and I’m onboard with that personally both via #ActiviryPub and #IndieWeb. But we have to cross the distance to there for non-geeks and people who can’t afford celebrity geek concierges.
@ThePracticalDev I don’t think you get enough recognition for not being afraid to pull your audience from all over the web, encouraging them to follow links to anything relevant anywhere, and enabling writers to pull their content in from elsewhere and syndicate it out. The last part is driven by good #RSS support in a world that thinks the technology is just for #podcasting now. I wish other sites encouraged #IndieWeb-style #POSSE practices like you. https://indieweb.org/POSSE
@futurebird I can say it no better than the front page of that wiki: "The #IndieWeb is a community of independent & personal websites connected by simple standards, based on the principles of: owning your domain & using it as your primary identity, publishing on your own site (optionally syndicating elsewhere), and owning your data." More: https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb
#ActivityPub is one protocol that can be used as part of an IndieWeb site.
@futurebird Start here for #WordPress on the #indieweb and #fediverse: https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started_on_WordPress
Content warning: musing about setting up a blog
Since the birdsite drama I've started to want a self-hosted feed that I can tell people 'hey subscribe to this if you wanna know what I'm up to'. So, a blog. But there's so many considerations to make when setting one up, it's crazy...
One problem is: I've internalized this notion that blog posts should be substantial, eloquent, informative. But my work is mostly like, code libraries, small jam games and songs. Or community stuff like the GBA jam, that I want to spread the word about even if it's other people's work. I guess I need to get comfortable posting tiny updates & bits of media, not having everything be a real article. There's also the question of how to incorporate previous works into it? Do I make retroactive posts for each one? It's tough because I love like, the comments on SoundCloud but don't wanna send people there. Do I just pinch them and add them as selected quotes?
Presentation is also tricky. I want just a simple list of posts on the homepage. But I also want people to know if they're about to click on a quick announcement or an hour long writeup. So now I have to worry about categorisation, yet more friction to publishing.
I'm also way behind the curve on #indieweb customs. RSS/Atom feeds are something I've only recently re-discovered. Webmentions & using my site _as_ a social platform seems way over my head. (But email address in the feed so people can comment that way seems promising?).
Has anyone here battled with these sorts of decisions? What did you end up doing?
Whoops, broke my Pixelfed install. Stopped receiving inbound actions three days ago apparently
Time to roll up my sleeves!
So far I'm not minding the work and sharp edges of self-hosting Pixelfed, BookWyrm, and Mastodon. I don't get my hands dirty with tech in my day job so gotta find an outlet somewhere — and this combo has me working with Ruby, PHP, _and_ Python.
fiiiine, I'll stop hacking my way around the raw Node http server and I will _finally_ learn to use Express #indieweb
now that we're getting back to basics with #RSS feeds, do you have some reader apps to recommend? ideally that would seamlessly sync through my devices.
i've been eyeing https://reeder.app which looks pretty nice.
#IndieWeb
Does anyone know a place where I can host pictures In albums like on Facebook so I can organize them and share links to albums with people? I hate Facebook, but I really do love their albums features, and they allow for editing #AltText at any time. Does that kind of album based thing exist on the indie web or Fedi? #AskFedi #IndieWeb
you may have heard of anti-software software club
but have you heard of…
anti-#indieweb indie web
I've been slowly redoing parts of my personal website over the last year or so, continually pulled between two extremes.
1. I want to make everything federate with everything else so it's as interoperable as possible, from #ActivityPub to #IndieWeb!
2. I want something that doesn't add any attack surface on top of the webserver, that loads and renders super-fast, and that can be zipped up and tossed on an S3-compatible bucket in the event of financial trouble or untimely demise.
do I see clearly or you can have transparent background profile pictures on Mastodon ? or is it just Metatext's way of displaying them?