@kimonostereo If it helps, there’s lots of prior art and ideas here: https://indieweb.org/watch
This week's goal: getting a passing mark from each step of the "So you want to go #IndieWeb" tutorial. Really interested in the #POSSE and #Webmention concepts, which is probably the biggest hurdle.
Any advice for a newbie to the #IndieDev community is greatly appreciated.
Hey Tantek 👋
Been enjoying these #Indieweb posts! With Bridgy in today's topic. Do you have a good resource for setting up web mentions? It's one of the remaining things on my list as I rebuild my personal site for a holidays activity 😅 (WIP: https://jhey.netlify.app)
I think I recall @mxbck writing something up some time back 🤔 Wondering if anything has changed since then for getting things running.
Super keen to document more things this year 💯
This meant those of us building #IndieWeb sites could use a service for that functionality, instead of having to write code ourselves, for each proprietary API.
When a few of us originally started syndicating to silos (https://indieweb.org/POSSE), and sometimes reverse-syndicating replies (https://indieweb.org/backfeed), we had to write custom code to do so, calling each social media API (like Twitter) both ways.
Bridgy alleviated some of that burden, and over time added support for more silos, sometimes dropping support when they were shutdown (Google+, Buzz) or scuttled their APIs (Facebook).
While Bridgy started only with backfeed as a service, it eventually added publishing support, POSSE as a service.
Even though I already had code working to POSSE text notes to Twitter, when I added photo posting support to my site, rather than write more code to call Twitter’s API, I started conditionally using Bridgy Publish to POSSE my photo (and video) posts.
In 2017, Ryan launched Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy) which he has substantially improved in the past few months.
I and many others now use Bridgy Fed to broadcast to & interact with Mastodon (and other ActivityPub) servers, without having to write any ActivityPub, Webfinger etc. code ourselves.
https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
Every user of Bridgy Fed gets a nice dashboard for notifications and activity. Here’s mine: https://fed.brid.gy/user/tantek.com
Bridgy is a great example of a project that was started to fulfill a personal need (https://indieweb.org/make_what_you_need), growing to support broader community needs.
Read more about Bridgy & Bridgy Fed:
* https://indieweb.org/Bridgy (including Publish)
* https://indieweb.org/Bridgy_Fed
* Launch post: https://snarfed.org/2012-01-08_bridgy_launched
It’s this hybrid of encouraging personally relevant work and community contributions that makes the #IndieWeb community special.
Yes there is a focus on greater independence with your personal website. However we can all do more by working together.
We achieve more independence, more quickly, by collaborating in community.
This is day 8 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days.
← Day 7: https://tantek.com/2023/007/t2/more-100daysofindieweb-projects
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I ended up writing a few hundred words (oops) in response to @burningbird’s post on #WordPress and the foibles of its #ActivityPub / Friends plugin team: https://phoenixtrap.com/2023/01/08/re-wordpress-friends-activitypub-indieweb/
Plus a description of what I want out of a socially-enabled website that plugs into both the #fediverse (not just #Mastodon but it needs to work with it) and #IndieWeb. Worrying I might have to roll my own in my weapon of choice, #Perl.
/cc @kmartino
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
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.
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!
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.
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/
I added you to the list on the #IndieWeb wiki:
* https://indieweb.org/100_days#2023
Keep up the good work!
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.