Yes to ActivityPub, but no to Friends
https://phoenixtrap.com/2023/01/08/re-wordpress-friends-activitypub-indieweb/
I’ve also been messing with the Friends and ActivityPub plugins for WordPress on this blog, and I share your concerns about the former bloating the database with feed items. You can control this somewhat by setting retention values in days or a number of posts, but you have to go into each friend’s Feeds tab and do it manually–there’s no default setting.
After reading your post, I’m also considering disabling Friends in favor of a feed reader, especially because (as you noted) there are gaps when with favorites and comment conversations bridging between WordPress and Mastodon servers. Like you, I’m not keen on installing a single-user Mastodon instance or other fediverse server that requires managing an unfamiliar programming language.
I’m also trying to do this in tandem with a suite of IndieWeb plugins, and I’m running into an issue with my friends feed page not showing any posts when the Post Kinds plugin is activated. I really want to keep this plugin because it lets me interact better with other IndieWeb sites as well as the Bridgy POSSE/backfeed service connecting me to other social networks.
My ideal is a personal website where I write everything, including long-form articles, short statuses, and replies like these. Folks can then find me via a single identifiable address and then subscribe/follow the entire firehose of content or choose subsets according to post types, topics, or tags. They’d then be able to reply or react on my site or their favored platform, which my site would collect regardless of origin, with subsequent replies and reactions getting pushed out to them. Oh, and it should work with both ActivityPub clients and servers, IndieWeb sites, and syndicate/backfeed to other social networks either with or akin to the Bridgy service I mentioned above.
So far I haven’t seen anything that ticks all these boxes, and I’m getting itchy to write my own. Perl is my favorite programming language, so I’m looking at the Yancy CMS as a base. But I know that it would still be a hell of a project, and one of the reasons I chose WordPress for blogging was that it was well-established and -supported but still easily extensible so that I could concentrate on writing instead of endlessly tweaking the engine. Unfortunately, I’m starting to fall into that trap anyway.
#activitypub #blogging #bridgy #fediverse #indieweb #mastodon #meta #perl #syndication #webdev #wordpress #yancy
Hey #Indieweb! I'm on day 3 of my #100daysofindieweb! I've been working on a script for a while now to take my twitter archive and turn it into posts on my Hugo blog, and today I was able to get back to it.
I wrote a little about it here:
https://crowdersoup.com/posts/projects/indieweb/100-days/day-3-twitter-archive-part-1/
I've seen a few different #fediverse to #jekyll comment things—but I've yet to see a clear way to moderate comments.
So I'm feeling drawn to #Giscus, though I'd love to be less attached to #GHPages & encourage people toward the #Fedi instead.
Am I missing something? I'd massively appreciate examples if anyone has figured comment moderation out!
Taking back control of my tiny web corner. Happy to be back into Microformats a decade later and this time combining it with Indieweb. So far I have my own domain www.axiomeval.me (WIP), digital ID, freedom from silos and there is more to come :-) #microformats #indieweb
@OohDirectory Any chance of an #IndieWeb category or perhaps tag on the directory?
Looking for some #IndieWeb bloggers to subscribe to.
Had a clear out of my feeds, started using Inoreader (much better than Feedly so far!), and now looking for people's words to read.
Please reply with any suggestions and boost to spread the question around. Ta! 🙏
What's a good way to present feeds (RSS or Atom, doesn't matter) so that it is as easy as possible for people to subscribe in their feed reader of choice?
Perhaps a thing a bit like those interstitials you get for podcasts and music?
E.g. like this: https://orcd.co/sixsigns
But with options for various feed readers like Inoreader, Feedbin, Feedly, The Old Reader, etc. and an option to copy the URL of the feed.
And is the feed: scheme used anywhere?
The Year of the Personal Website · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design,
https://www.pottbayer.de/2023/01/08/the-year-of-the-personal-website-%c2%b7-matthias-ott-user-experience-designer/
#DataSovereignty #Indieweb #PersonalWebsite #Blogging
Nice to see that there is such a variety of MicroPub clients, next to Quill, Micropublish and the mobile app Indigenous, there’s also sparkles. But on the desktop, I mostly just use GoBlog’s editor nowadays. It has live sync and and a live preview, which is sometimes very helpful. But flexibility is the key, use what fits you and the situation the best.
I'm obsessed with CGI. I've ripped off @cblgh's beautiful work on cerca and built a web forum that stores content in plaintext and is stupid-simple to host. Posts are written in #gemtext.
https://winduptoy.sensorstation.co/oasis.html
Project Journal: Earliest Project Memories
Introduction to the Project Journals
I am participating in the 100DaysofIndieWeb and my original 100 day project was to post my photo albums (fix past broken albums that were the result of my IndieWeb website transformation, current albums). And then I decided to change my project because I have been [...]
https://tmichellemoore.com/blog/project-journal-earliest-project-memories/
#100DaysOfIndieWeb #IndieWeb #ProjectJournal #ProjectManagement
i have updated my #gemini resource on #degrowth, #communities & scale, forgiveness & growth, and imagining a kinder future on and offline!
accessible here: gemini://hnr.fyi/research.gmi
or here: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/hnr.fyi/research.gmi
as always, if you have any links burning a hole in your pocket that could do with being added, please send them over! i think it might be time to start more thoroughly organising it, soon.
#permacomputing #smallweb #indieweb #smolweb #sustainability #communication #networking
@tantek.com Thank you for these posts, I find them very interesting.
But I have a question about syndicating posts. I tried to set up sth similar with the activity pub plugin in wordpress and was not really satisfied with it. Namely, I would not be able to edit or delete the syndicated posts afterwards (e.g. on Mastodon). This is not an option for me as I lose control over my own content.
Also, it seems like you're interacting from your Mastodon profile as well. Is that so?
That would be a requirement for me to implement something similar. To at least be able to delete or edit posts again. How can I get something like that to work? Do you possibly have your own instance? Would appreciate any tips!