Correction: check_webfinger!

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

@jlgatewood@mastodon.cloud my notepad++ equivalent is BBEdit http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html (@bbedit@mastodon.social), which as they say “doesn't suck”, on the contrary, it’s been a fast, solid, & reliable text editor for decades. It’s even faster & more dependable than Apple’s built-in “Notes” app which has become quirkier and *worse* in recent OS updates (e.g. weirdly linking #hashtags when I wish it would leave them alone, without a preference for turning that off).

However yes, when I post a new #100DaysofIndieWeb post, I’m “copypasta”-ing as you say the new permalink into the previous day’s post, and vice versa, using BBEdit of course.
#hashtags #100DaysofIndieWeb
https://nataliekraneiss.com/ (@natalie@hcommons.social) I agree with your concerns about not being “able to edit or delete the syndicated posts afterwards”.

In short, my personal site tantek.com is its own “instance” but without running Mastodon.

I use https://fed.brid.gy/ to connect my site directly to #fediverse sites like Mastodon servers, without any need for syndication, cross-posting, or publishing copies of my posts. More details here: https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb

Because I use my site directly, I can edit/update/delete posts, and send a Webmention to #BridgyFed to propagate those changes to any #fediverse servers caching my post, all of which update themselves accordingly.

I’m not that familiar with the WordPress ActivityPub plugin, however, there’s a great community of folks who can help with any questions about it here:
https://chat.indieweb.org/wordpress

Hope that helps and good luck!
#fediverse #BridgyFed
@daviddelven@pkm.social that post is day 4 of my #100DaysOfIndieWeb project which I started on January 1st:

Day 1: https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes

That and subsequent days should help provide context.

For example, I noticed you have your own personal domain daviddelgado.cat, yet it seems to redirect to a Linktree. One way to make your web presence more #IndieWeb would be to use a static page served directly on your domain for that, instead of redirecting to a 3rd party service.

If you feel comfortable with HTML+CSS, you could follow the instructions at https://indieweb.org/GitHub_Pages to setup a free static GitHub page to serve at your domain, and add all the same links you have on your Linktree.
#100DaysOfIndieWeb #IndieWeb
@nomdeb@mstdn.social that’s good to know. Yes, I’ve seen these “follower collectors” as well. Hard to believe that such a high percentage of Twitter followers are dormant, or perhaps just bots or brands. I think you’re right that Twitter algorithms are pushing down our real person/connection posts, “in favor of engagement types of tweets”.

Since a month ago, the differences have grown on my recent posts:

Now ~6.3x (up from 2x) more #fediverse responses per post than Twitter, ~900:1 (up from ~500:1) difference per follower (having ~142x more Twitter followers).

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/

https://crowdersoup.com/ (@CrowderSoup@hachyderm.io) glad to hear it and congrats on starting your #100DaysOfIndieWeb project!

I added you to the list on the #IndieWeb wiki:
* https://indieweb.org/100_days#2023

Keep up the good work!
#100DaysOfIndieWeb #IndieWeb

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!

#IndieWeb #SSG #blogging

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?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_URI_scheme

#IndieWeb

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

README: https://git.sensorstation.co/oasis.git/tree/README

#indieweb #smolweb

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!

#IndieWeb #100DaysOfIndieWeb

There are more 2023 #100DaysOfIndieWeb projects, you should check them out:
* https://tmichellemoore.com/blog/tag/100daysofindieweb/ (@tmichellemoore@mastodon.social)
* https://crowdersoup.com/tags/100days (@CrowderSoup@hachyderm.io)
Got one? Reply and I'll add it.

You can (re)start a #100Days project any day. While continuity is nice, you can take breaks. As https://kevinmarks.com/ (@kevinmarks) said in #IndieWeb chat:
*  https://indieweb.org/life_happens and should take priority over artificial deadlines.

It all started back in 2017 when https://aaronparecki.com/ did the first #100DaysOfIndieWeb project:
* https://aaronparecki.com/tag/100daysofindieweb
* @100daysindieweb

Want to start one of your own? See past & present IndieWeb related 100 days projects for ideas & inspiration:
* https://indieweb.org/100_days

This is day 7 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb.

← Day 6: https://tantek.com/2023/006/t1/forward-in-time-links
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#100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days #IndieWeb