RSVP yes to Decentralized Website Communication with Webmention scheduled for 2023-01-15 1pm EST
https://events.indieweb.org/2023/01/decentralized-website-communication-with-webmention-49Mvf9ZDUHzk
#IndieWeb, #Webmentions (https://tmichellemoore.com/?p=151993)
While we are getting our #indieweb on, I had the urge to explore alternatives to GoodReads. I did the export and imported to #bookwyrm. It was mostly successful, a few stragglers that need manual input.
Because it is #ActivityPub driven, you can follow from #mastodon. I updated my current book and got it here as a standard toot, which I boosted just for fun.
https://bookrastinating.com/user/geniodiabolico/comment/83266
It seems to do all the book tracking I want plus #fediverse ftw!
"And my first ever #indieweb pingback goes to @tantek.com, @aaronparecki.com and @waterpigs.co.uk ! Yes, I can now federate... well.. if I can manage to get it to interop :-)"
Though the original post disappeared in a site update (and was unarchived), you can see it on the Internet Archive of @eschnou.com’s #IndieWeb tag page: https://web.archive.org/web/20130609045145/http://eschnou.com/tag/indieweb#2013Mar26
At the time, Barnaby (@waterpigs.co.uk) did confirm receiving that @-mention on his site via Pingback (this was before Webmention was a thing^3): https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/1199/ (https://twitter.com/BarnabyWalters/status/316664943820812289)
@eschnou.com also asked in the IndieWeb chat if @aaronparecki.com had gotten his @-domain mention: https://chat.indieweb.org/2013-03-26#t1364333721000000
You can see at the bottom of that chat log that he did.
I myself started using @-domain in my posts ~4 years later in 2017: https://tantek.com/2017/345/t1/aaronpk-paid-thanks (https://twitter.com/t/status/940382393097228288) though only when the same person controlled the domain and the Twitter @-name of the first part of the domain name before the "." (which was/is not many people).
I think that was my earliest use because two days after that post I added @-domain auto-linking to the https://tantek.com/github/cassis (@cassisjs) "auto_link" function https://github.com/tantek/cassis/commit/0e8e6270c0a3b600423c283f59b5d22c3648d59a (https://twitter.com/cassisjs/status/941107922318381057), likely having already tested it in production on my own site with that post.
I’m still #testingInProduction the updates noted in ^3, notably "https:" for all @-mentions (@-name @-domain @-@) and hope to merge them into the repo soon. Aside: both that and the #testInProduction hashtag have hilarious Twitter results^4.
Does anyone know of any other auto-linkers that support linking @-domain in plain text to an https URL of that domain? Extra internet points if they also support @-@ auto-linking.
This is day 14 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days.
← Day 13: https://tantek.com/2023/013/t1/indieweb-home-internet
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^1 Day 11: https://tantek.com/2023/011/t1/indieweb-evolving-at-mention
^2 I’m curious if StatusNet, OStatus, or OpenMicroBlogging had an explicit syntax for site-to-site @-mentions, whether any of them resembled @-domain, and is there evidence of their earliest @-mention usage (if any) still visible on the web (or Internet Archive) cc: @evanp.me (@evan@prodromou.pub)
^3 https://tantek.com/2023/012/t1/six-years-webmention-w3c
^4 Navigating to Twitter hashtag results left as an exercise to the reader, to provide a deliberate soft barrier to a potential doomscrolling trap.
As someone who has long waxed poetic about the quirky free-spiritedness and DIY ethos of the early web, it makes me so happy to see more people talking about things like blogs, personal sites, the #fediverse, and the #indieweb. I've loved tech for as long as I can remember, but in the aftermath of the burnout that came from working in the industry, I worried that I might never again find the joy in it. But I'm finding more reasons to be hopeful
You can switch your site from self-hosted to service-hosted & back and it won’t affect your domain, permalinks, content, readers, peer-to-peer comments, or any other IndieWeb user features.
Lastly, “self-hosting” means different things to different people. Some insist it means you have personal physical control of hardware, like a server in your home or garage, some are ok with a physical server in a personal colo cage under lock & key, or a shared colo cage, or a virtual “cloud” server without a physical location.
Per the IndieWeb plurality^3 principle, people can use a self-hosted (under any of those definitions) site or a service-hosted site to publish & interact with each other.
^1 https://indieweb.org/self_hosting
^2 https://indieweb.org/plumbing
^3 https://indieweb.org/plurality
Project Journal: IndieWeb Project: Webmentions
Continuing with the progress on my IndieWeb website project, I succeeded in replying to a Mastodon Post from my website.
Day 7 of 100 #100DaysofIndieWeb, #IndieWeb, #ProjectJournal, #ProjectManagement
Looked at the birdsite quickly and saw that people who have been dead silent at all the other shit Elon's been up to are suddenly up in arms over his lack of transparency now that their favorite probably more accessible third-party client is no longer working. Tempted to shitpost about how #indieweb and Mastodon still have third-party client support.
Webmention turns six, video vexations, and lovely little site updates. (Also: 🪵) It’s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!
This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for January 7th - 13th, 2023. https://martymcgui.re/2023/01/14/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--january-7th---13th-2023/
Interesting idea. Now the reason #Fediverse and #ActivityPub is powerful is precisely for everything you state here – it’s that mix of person (agent), your content (whatever it is you pour out), the links or interlinking of everything and your actions (follow, like, respond, share). What will eventually stick is that permutation of these entities that will determine the success or failure of any social network of any scale. #Fediverse is attractive because of its planetary scale beyond boundaries. Which is why #Indieweb, when they include #ActivityPub on their individual sites and decide to #Federate, become so much more powerful. Original static web had this promise but protocols that connect creators with content and activities give that shape.
While posting on a personal site has many^1 advantages^2 over only posting to #socialMedia, maybe you already quit social media silos^3.
There are lots of reasons to get a domain name^4 and setup your own homepage on the web.
If you’re a web professional, a personal site with your name on it (perhaps also in its domain) can make it easier for potential employers to find you and read your description in your own words.
If you’re a web developer, a personal home page is also an opportunity to demonstrate your craft.^5
If you’re a writer, you can organize your words, essays, and longer form articles in a form that’s easier for readers to browse, and style them to both be easier to read, and express your style better than any silo.
Similarly if you’re an artist, photographer, or any other kind of content creator.
See https://indieweb.org/homepage for more reasons why, and what other kinds of things you can put on your home page.
Thanks to Chris Aldrich (https://boffosocko.com/) for the header image.
This is day 13 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days.
← Day 12: https://tantek.com/2023/012/t1/six-years-webmention-w3c
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^1 https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
^2 https://tantek.com/2023/005/t3/indieweb-simpler-approach
^3 https://indieweb.org/silo-quits
^4 https://tantek.com/2023/004/t1/choosing-domain-name-indieweb
^5 https://indieweb.org/creator
I updated my homepage to show the latest photo post: gregorlove.com/#photos
I updated my homepage to show the latest photo post: gregorlove.com/#photos
Project Journal: Onboarding a Project Team: https://tmichellemoore.com/?p=151821
Day 6 of 100 #100DaysofIndieWeb, #IndieWeb, #ProjectJournal, #ProjectManagement
Project Journal: IndieWeb Project Progress: https://tmichellemoore.com/?p=151791
Day 5 of 100 #100DaysofIndieWeb, #IndieWeb, #ProjectJournal, #ProjectManagement
IndieWeb online event on Sunday! Learning about Webmention:
https://events.indieweb.org/2023/01/decentralized-website-communication-with-webmention-49Mvf9ZDUHzk
New Core Intuition! We talk about marketing and upcoming app plans. I also fixed a feed issue in Micro.blog with it, so posts will start flowing into @coreint@micro.blog again for fediverse folks who want to follow along.