@adam ruby.social/@adam

Question for #bloggers, #indieweb and anyone who reads or writes a #blog:

Does anyone have good example of a blog that showcases the authors writing from multiple sources (not just the blog) in a seamless way? I’m talking more than an about page with a few links.

I’m working on incorporating writing I’ve done in the past (like on https://minafi.com ) into my personal blog ( https://adamfortuna.com ) and looking for inspiration.
@sentience hachyderm.io/@sentience

It’ll never be completely done, but apart from some feed icons and visual tweaks, the bulk of my website redesign is done. Call this the beta release. Feedback/questions welcome! Meanwhile, time to get back into the writing habit, and post all my other stuff to my own site. #indieweb #POSSE https://kevinyank.com/
@cambridgeport90 indieweb.social/@cambridgeport90

Bookwyrm is fun, but it's also not very supportive of #Indieweb right now; what would be cool, though not sure how plausible it is, would be to have anything posted from a Bookwyrm server to be copied to one's web site as a post kind of read.
@cambridgeport90 indieweb.social/@cambridgeport90

I'm also going to be publishing my books to my personal web site via Epilogue once I get things going; #indieweb for the win.
@flow fosstodon.org/@flow

Every day now I come across something independent, creative, unique and interesting on the #fediverse the #smolweb #indienet #indieweb. It feels like an independent Internet is really flourishing - feels kind-of like the mid-to-late '90s, only now it's much more... accessible, findable, creative, politically interesting, artistic, informed, subversive, non-commercial, independent. In this moment it feels like the 'Net is *ours* and not theirs (corporates/states). #mastodon #gemini
@walves ursal.zone/@walves

Alguém ai conduz/trabalha algum site #indieweb ?
Tantek Çelik tantek.com
Sometimes it’s the little things, like editing a post. Edit a reply, see a comment update on another post.

From day 5 (https://tantek.com/2023/005/t3/indieweb-simpler-approach)
* Can I edit my post after publishing?

Whether a tweet or Instagram photo, the answer is no.^1

Blogs and websites have had editing capabilities since the start.

However, no site is an island, it's a *web* site. Interlinked.

We expect edits on one site to show up when embedded or syndicated on other sites.

#Webmention provides the ability for cross-site comments, and unlike the "one-off" prior protocols of Trackbacks & Pingbacks^2, when you update a cross-site comment, by resending a Webmention, the other post updates its copy of your reply: https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/#sending-webmentions-for-updated-posts

If you delete a reply, by resending a Webmention, the other post can delete its copy (or mark it as deleted) https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/#sending-webmentions-for-deleted-posts

Similarly, the #ActivityPub protocol specifies update & delete capabilities, as implemented by #Mastodon and others.

#BridgyFed (https://fed.brid.gy) bridges (as the name says) these two protocols, which enables the following interactions.

#IndieWeb post -(Webmention)-> BridgyFed -(ActivtyPub)-> Mastodon displays post

and then this:

IndieWeb updated post -(Webmention)-> BridgyFed -(ActivtyPub)-> Mastodon displays updated post

This works for replies to toots as well:

IndieWeb reply to toot -(Webmention)-> BridgyFed -(ActivtyPub)-> toot displays reply

and subsequently:

IndieWeb updated reply -(Webmention)-> BridgyFed -(ActivtyPub)-> toot updates display of reply

Thanks to these update protocols in Webmention & ActivityPub, and BridgyFed connecting them, after adding “forward-in-time” links (https://tantek.com/2023/006/t1/forward-in-time-links) I was able to resend webmentions for my previous #100DaysOfIndieWeb posts, and have those forward links show up wherever my posts were already displayed on Mastodon.

Posts interlinked with replies interlinked with protocols interlinked.

This is day 9 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days.

← Day 8: https://tantek.com/2023/008/t7/bridgy-indieweb-posse-backfeed
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^1 The ability to edit tweets has literally been the most requested feature on Twitter since perhaps its launch. Last year, paid Twitter “Blue” accounts finally got the ability to edit tweets, sort of: five times within 30 minutes of posting. Too little, too late.
* https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/03/twitters-edit-button-is-rolling-out-to-blue-subscribers-in-canada-australia-and-new-zealand/
* https://blog.hootsuite.com/can-you-edit-a-tweet/
* https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitters-edit-button-is-coming-soon-for-paid-users
* https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/06/twitter-edit-tweet-option-united-states/
* https://9to5mac.com/2022/10/06/twitter-rolling-out-edit-button/

^2 Pingbacks were originally (and for many years) only implemented as one-off cross-blog interactions. One-time, uneditable. Pingbacks (and Trackbacks before them) were notoriously ugly when they showed up on blogs, listed & displayed as a separate thing (never tie presentation to the name of a protocol) with cryptically elided summaries: https://indieweb.org/pingback#Poor_display.

It took over 10 years since being specified (2002) for the IndieWeb community to re-use pingbacks for actual comments across sites: https://tantek.com/2013/113/b1/first-federated-indieweb-comment-thread separating presentation & UI from the protocol.

This separation of concerns approach evolved into the Webmention specification, separating the protocol from the display of comments, likes, reposts, and other social web https://indieweb.org/responses.
#Webmention #ActivityPub #Mastodon #BridgyFed #IndieWeb #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days
front-end.social/@jhey/109658600057113584
Tantek Çelik tantek.com
https://jhey.dev/ (@jhey@front-end.social) hey! thanks for the kind words.

Two sides to supporting #webmentions:

1. Sending: https://webmention.app/ is excellent, by https://remysharp.com/ (@rem@front-end.social), or you can write your own Webmention sending loop using endpoint discovery libraries, and in that loop you can do other things, like also send each link to the Internet Archive (https://indieweb.org/Internet_Archive#Trigger_an_Archive, what I do on my site) to archive each link as of the time you linked to it.

2. Receiving: https://webmention.io/ (which is what I use) by https://aaronparecki.com/ as recommended by https://mxb.dev/ (@mxbck@front-end.social), or https://webmention.herokuapp.com/ by https://voxpelli.com/ (@voxpelli@mastodon.social) as recommended by https://kryogenix.org/ (@sil@mastodon.social). Similarly to sending, you could also write your own Webmention receiving code.

Then the fun part, once you’re receiving webmentions, is figuring out how you want to display them as comments, likes, reposts etc. on your post permalinks. Do you display people’s icons/avatars, at what resolution? Do you display the entirety of comments or do you elide them at 255 characters (or some other limit)? Etc. If(when) you start storing received webmentions in your own site/server’s storage, there’s a bunch more interesting considerations.

More resources:
* https://indieweb.org/Webmention-developer

That’s a good start. Drop by https://chat.indieweb.org/dev for deep dives into any of the above, and welcome to the Webmentionverse
#webmentions:
@CrowderSoup hachyderm.io/@CrowderSoup

Today was Day 4 of my #100daysofindieweb project. I am working on migrating part of my twitter archive export to posts on my Hugo blog. Today I came up with a data structure of classify types of tweets.

You can read more about it here: https://crowdersoup.com/posts/projects/indieweb/100-days/day-4-classifying-tweets/

#Indieweb
@ryanrandall hcommons.social/@ryanrandall

Slowly customizing my site layout enough to get it to validate h-entry info according to this nifty tool: https://indiewebify.me

Wow, do I teach myself best by exploring other examples. #blogging #indieWeb
@techlifeweb indieweb.social/@techlifeweb

Current crazy posting mode consits of 11ty, some Hygen templates, old school batch files, a file watch and WinSCP. Also Bridgy and webmentions.It's a house of cards but it feeds my geeky soul. #indieweb. (https://techlifeweb.com/blog/2023/2023-1-9-post-1745/)
@KevinMarks xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks

@pkedrosky @anildash have you looked at micro.blog recently? It's a turnkey blogging service that integrates with #indieweb and fediverse smoothly. It deals with a lot of the fiddly integration stuff for you.
@tmichellemoore mastodon.social/@tmichellemoore

PMO Advice for a Former Teacher That is Now in a Project Management Office

Introduction

A former teacher reached out to me to ask if there was any advice I would give to teachers that are now in the project management role in her school system's project management office.

First, as a teacher, you are the

https://tmichellemoore.com/blog/pmo-advice-for-a-former-teacher-that-is-now-in-a-project-management-office/

#100DaysOfIndieWeb #IndieWeb #ProgramManagement #ProjectManagement
matthiasott.com/notes/the-year-of-the-personal-website
Jeremy Keith adactio.com

The Year of the Personal Website · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer

Especially if you are a designer, an artist, a photographer, a writer, a blogger, a creator of any kind, owning your work is as important as ever. Social media platforms might be great for distributing your content and creating a network of like-minded people around you. But they will always be ephemeral, transient, and impermanent – not the best place to preserve your thoughts, words, and brushstrokes.
#indieweb #creators #personal #publishing #sharing #ownership #writing #blogging
@IronWynch mastodon.social/@IronWynch

Things are getting real. I've added https://maaternal.com to the IndieWeb, and am now trying to get the host to set things up properly so the Webfinger endpoint can be found without breaking the site. Wish me luck. 😃 #IndieWeb #ActivityPub #MaternalFeminism #BlackFeminism #AfricanaWomanism
#indieweb mastodon.social/tags/indieweb

@kimonostereo If it helps, there’s lots of prior art and ideas here: https://indieweb.org/watch

#indieweb #watch-posts

https://boffosocko.com/2023/01/09/55813554/
@box464 mastodon.social/@box464

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.

https://indiewebify.me/
@jhey front-end.social/@jhey

@tantek.com

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 💯
Tantek Çelik tantek.com
11 years ago today, Ryan Barrett (https://snarfed.org/ @schnarfed) launched Bridgy (https://brid.gy/) to copy #socialmedia replies as comments on original blog posts.

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
→ 🔮
#socialmedia #IndieWeb #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days
@mjgardner social.sdf.org/@mjgardner

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