God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter | WIRED
Our smarter, richer betters (in Babel times, the king’s name was Nimrod) often preach the idea of a town square, a marketplace of ideas, a centralized hub of discourse and entertainment—and we listen. But when I go back and read Genesis, I hear God saying: “My children, I designed your brains to scale to 150 stable relationships. Anything beyond that is overclocking. You should all try Mastodon.”
So many gems in this piece by Paul Ford:
The Fediverse apps are all built on a set of rules called the ActivityPub standard, which is a little like HTML had sex with a calendar invite. It’s a content polycule. The questions it evokes are the same as with any polycule: What are the rules? How big can this get? Who will create the chore chart?
@starrwulfe
I feel especially called out on the #indieweb one. I'm on my 3rd prototype architecture in as many months trying to find a decent blog home. 😿
This Saturday night is RetroStrange Movie Night! Watch some 1950s Hot Rod movies w/ us. No ads, no sign-in, no bullshit. RSMN is community-supported by our Patreon. https://retrostrange.com/2023/retrostrange-movie-night-is-february-18th/ #Movies #Streaming #IndieWeb
@paulrobertlloyd @chrisbergr This project feels like a LEAP in the right direction. I admit this has been a struggle to complete - it's almost like taking a course! IndieWebifyMe and Webmentions.Rock are great but your average user has no chance with that.
I envision something like an app or application that acts as the #IndieWeb admin console, storing content locally, and then pushing it up to required services **magically** 🧙.
Making it simple and fun like https://home.omg.lol/
Working on a new #Gutenberg block for #IndieWeb-style reply contexts (https://indieweb.org/reply-context#How_to).
It’ll work much like IndieBlocks’ Context block, except that it’ll leverage InnerBlocks. No more messing with Groups and `e-content` class names in just the right places.
And because I want to make these things editable as can be, it’ll support a “transform,” not just to raw “Custom HTML,” but to a Group block (of which the first child is a Custom HTML block with just the introducory HTML).
In notes like this post, I can type "^1" (like after the word "footnotes" above) and the code on my server automatically:
* turns it into a Unicode superscript '¹'
* links it to the expansion at the end of my post
Similarly, I can type "^1" at the start of an expansion line (e.g. at the end of a post) and that code automatically:
* turns it into a Unicode superscript '¹'
* links it back to the inline reference
Since that code is part of my site’s CASSIS auto_link function², all previous posts with such "^n" style footnotes have also been updated, like my day 6 post³ and since.
Clicking an inline footnote reference scrolls to the line with the footnote expansion. Clicking the Unicode superscript number at the start of that expansion scrolls back to the inline footnote reference.
I decided to postpone adding the small return arrows '⮐' at the end of a footnote expansions. Linking the superscript numbers to each other works well, and seemed sufficiently discoverable without being distracting.
By using post-specific unique prefixes for the footnote reference & expansion links, those links also work even in the presence of more than one post with footnotes, e.g. on my home page⁴. They’re also in my Atom feed entries. I’m curious how the footnotes links in a post work in other contexts, like when viewing in a reader.
I also discovered that Unicode superscripts were inconsistent on some platforms, and added a bit of CSS to set an explicit font-family for footnotes numbers:
/* CSS style rule to use a specific font for footnote refs and expansions */
a[id*='_ref-'],a[id*='_note-'] { font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",system-ui; }
/* end of style rule */
I added this and some other tips to the #IndieWeb footnote page⁵.
This is day 30 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days
← Day 29: https://tantek.com/2023/037/t1/post-glossary
→ 🔮
¹ https://tantek.com/2023/036/t1/footnotes-unicode-hyperlink
² https://tantek.com/cassis.js
³ https://tantek.com/2023/006/t1/forward-in-time-links
⁴ https://tantek.com/
⁵ https://indieweb.org/footnote
There are just too many sparklies to learn in the #IndieWeb #Fediverse world. Stop creating interesting things!
#Blog updated: The second part of my #gamedev work experience at Keywords Studios, and how getting fired from there was lowkey the best thing that ever happened for my career.
https://chaotic-neutr.al/posts/keywords-studios-storytime-2/
I created some Shortcuts for #Micropub posting on iOS. Supports Like, Bookmark, Reply, Repost, Note, and Note with Image. #indieweb https://cagrimmett.com/development/2023/02/12/ios-shortcut-actions-for-micropub-posting/
Morning everybody and welcome to Sunday. Phone is still playing dead. Going to try to get some sighted help to help with this, hopefully someone moderately tech-oriented.
Also on:Hmm… webmention.app appears to be no more and I get an error whenever the Netlify webmention plugin runs. I gueess I could use curl manually, but what a PITA.
🏷 #Indieweb #Netlify #Webmentions
https://www.thisdaysportion.com/notes/sending-webmentions-is-hard
Accessing avatars, finding footnotes, and encouraging easter eggs. It’s your < 10min update on the #IndieWeb community!
This Week in the IndieWeb audio edition for February 4th - 10th, 2023. https://martymcgui.re/2023/02/11/this-week-in-the-indieweb-audio-edition--february-4th---10th-2023/
if there’s something about my current site that isn’t working for you, or could be more accessible, I’d like to know.
Do you have any thoughts or constructive criticism about the design of https://andrewwoods.net ?
I’m planning to design my site for the IndiieWeb and probably add Fediverse features, if they feel appropriate
