@fredc mastodon.online/@fredc

Tweets are not available on Timehop. How sad. šŸ˜” I am still cleaning up my Twitter archive to be reposted on my microblog. #Timehop #Twitter #IndieWeb
@fredc mastodon.online/@fredc

Timehop is having issues with Instagram againā€”login issues. Good thing I already backed up my Instagram posts on Google Photos, which is still accessible by Timehop. And, of course, I also reposted it on my microblog. #Timehop #Instagram #GooglePhotos #IndieWeb
@mikegrindle indieweb.social/@mikegrindle

'Your blog doesnā€™t have to be big and fancy. It doesnā€™t have to outrank everyone on Google, make money or ā€œconvert leadsā€ to be important. It can be something that exists for its own sake, as your place to express yourself in whatever manner you please.'

Felt inspired to talk about the small web and personal websites again, so my latest blog post is something of a brain dump on the subject.

#indieweb #blogging #writing

https://mikegrindle.com/posts/personal-blogging
@ross axiomeval.social/@ross

By the time a few more tech places (just saw the Substack news) add 'notes' and other Indieweb capabilities (of course better if people do it for themselves on their own sites) CorpTech will find itself being dismantled on an ever increasing scale. #indieweb #notes (https://www.axiomeval.me/posts/20230412-notes-help-dismantle-corptech.html)
twitter.com/netdivermag/status/1645782306618060801
Tantek Ƈelik tantek.com
@netdivermag good to hear from you!

https://indieweb.org/ (@indiewebcamp) has kept the independent torch lit.

We remember independentsday(.)org: https://indieweb.org/Independents_Day

Let's chat https://chat.indieweb.org/ via Slack, Matrix, or IRC rather than this silo
@brianjesse mastodon.social/@brianjesse

micro blogging friends, my followers on #mastodon lacks a CSV download link, does anyone know how to download followers? ā¤ļøšŸ™šŸ¼ #activitypub #indieweb #rss
@abnv fantastic.earth/@abnv

Changed my microblog page (https://abnv.me/mb) to point the post links to https://elk.zone instead of the default #Mastodon UI because of superior threading UI on @elk.
#indieweb
@ApisNecros ioc.exchange/@ApisNecros

Anyone else every swipe a domain name out from some body? Curious to hear why you did it, and if there was any outcome.

#WebDev #SysAdmin #IndieWeb
@tchambers indieweb.social/@tchambers

When you look at these #indieweb standards it is so clear why the #Fediverse and the Indieweb movement are such close allies and technological "cousins."

https://indieweb.org/friendly#How
@elly front-end.social/@elly

If I could stop you from your scrolling for a second, I have a favour to ask...

Could you all please send me your favourite personal websites?

I wanna see all your cool quirky heartfelt creative shit!

Oh! and don't forget to boost this so we've all got lots of great sites to look at šŸŽ‰

#WebDev #IndieWeb #PersonalSite
@justin beige.party/@justin

#Substackā€™s financials areā€¦ suspect. Plus, the platform doesnā€™t seem interested in an open #IndieWeb future. So, Iā€™m building a life raft. Read about how in todayā€™s newsletter.

https://justincox.com/blog/2023/04/we-have-to-talk-about-substack/
#indieweb mastodon.social/tags/indieweb

New blog post up, where I talk about how I discovered the indie web and how it makes me feel.
Inspired by a podcast and an article. For the link to the latter, thank you to @lostletters@social.yesterweb.org!

#IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #neocities #DigitalGardens #PersonalBlog

https://theresmiling.neocities.org/blog/2023/04/jungles-and-gardens
#indieweb mastodon.social/tags/indieweb
About three weeks ago I got auto-linked hashtags working on my posts.

The biggest challenge was picking a tag space to link my hashtags.

The second biggest challenge was figuring out how to get my linked hashtags to work when my posts were federated into Mastodon instances, and have them rewrite those links into instance-local tag page links. We need a term for such locally rewritten linked hashtags, perhaps ā€œfederated hashtagsā€.

While typical personal sites link a hashtag to a tag page that only displays personal posts, I wanted to link to something more like a tag aggregation page that also displayed similar posts from others.

The tag pages on Mastodon instances do a good job of this, showing tagged posts from any user on that instance, and tagged posts from any user followed by any user on that instance.

I reviewed my hashtags since the start of 2023, checked their pages on indieweb.social and found that the posts displayed were all on topic, and surprisingly free of tag spam (perhaps for now).

I chose https://indieweb.social/tags/ for my tag space (which is a 404 if you click it, where it really should display a tags page listing popular or recent tags or a tag cloud).

Combining a hashtag like #100DaysOfIndieWeb with a tag space produces a link to a tag page like: https://indieweb.social/tags/100DaysOfIndieWeb.

The other interesting thing about hashtag links is how theyā€™re rewritten when a post is displayed on another Mastodon instance, to link to the tag page local to that instance.

This linked-hashtag-portability is underspecified unfortunately (it could probably use its own portable markup specification, or at least a best practice for h-entry publishing).

How it works in Mastodon is non-obvious enough that thereā€™s a 4+ year old Bridgy Fed issue on the subject!
* https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/45

With a bunch of research and experiment contributions from several folks in the issue, @snarfed.org (@schnarfed) did eventually figure out how to get Bridgy Fed to federate hashtags in posts into Mastodon instances so they would rewrite hashtag links into instance-local hashtag pages:
* https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/45#issuecomment-1468962400

Thus even though Iā€™m using the indieweb.social tag space on the hashtag links in my original post, if you are reading this post on Mastodon, you should see a hashtag like #IndieWeb link to your local instanceā€™s tag page for IndieWeb, and my post should show up on that page.

From testing a few other instances tag pages, this is now working, e.g. these tag pages:
* https://indieweb.social/tags/100DaysofIndieWeb (as expected)
* https://xoxo.zone/tags/100DaysOfIndieWeb
* https://mozilla.social/tags/100DaysofIndieWeb
display the #MozFest postĀ¹ I published right after implementing linked hashtags (and any subsequent 100DaysofIndieWeb posts).

I did go back and send Webmentions to BridgyFed to send ActivityPub updates for all my past #100DaysofIndieWeb posts, however only a few of them showed up in those tag pages. Itā€™s unclear why a few did and most didnā€™t, or why there are inconsistencies across instances. More to explore and debug.

Federated hashtags definitely need their own specification, because currently they barely interoperate when published, and even then require Mastodon-implementation-specific knowledge to function.

The good news is that several of us now have linked hashtags on our personal sites display and link as expected when our posts are federated across Mastodon instances, using a variety of different pieces of software to make it all work.


This is day 36 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days

ā† Day 35: https://tantek.com/2023/081/t1/mozfest-making-fediverse-socialweb
ā†’ šŸ”®


Glossary

h-entry
Ā https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
hashtag
Ā https://indieweb.org/hashtags
tag aggregation
Ā https://indieweb.org/tag_aggregation
tag page
Ā https://indieweb.org/tag_page
tags page
Ā https://indieweb.org/tags_page
Ā 
References

Ā¹ https://tantek.com/2023/081/t1/mozfest-making-fediverse-socialweb
Tantek Ƈelik tantek.com
About three weeks ago I got auto-linked hashtags working on my posts.

The biggest challenge was picking a tag space to link my hashtags.

The second biggest challenge was figuring out how to get my linked hashtags to work when my posts were federated into Mastodon instances, and have them rewrite those links into instance-local tag page links. We need a term for such locally rewritten linked hashtags, perhaps ā€œfederated hashtagsā€.

While typical personal sites link a hashtag to a tag page that only displays personal posts, I wanted to link to something more like a tag aggregation page that also displayed similar posts from others.

The tag pages on Mastodon instances do a good job of this, showing tagged posts from any user on that instance, and tagged posts from any user followed by any user on that instance.

I reviewed my hashtags since the start of 2023, checked their pages indieweb.social and found that the posts displayed were all on topic, and surprisingly free of tag spam (perhaps for now).

I chose https://indieweb.social/tags/ for my tag space (which is a 404 if you click it, where it really should display a list of tags page). When combined with a hashtag like #100DaysOfIndieWeb, it links to https://indieweb.social/tags/100DaysOfIndieWeb.

The other interesting thing about hashtag links is how theyā€™re rewritten when a post is displayed on another Mastodon instance, to link to the tag page local to that instance.

This linked-hashtag-portability is underspecified unfortunately (it could probably use its own portable markup specification, or at least a best practice for h-entry publishing).

How it works in Mastodon is non-obvious enough that thereā€™s a 4+ year old Bridgy Fed issue on the subject!
* https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/45

With a bunch of research and experiment contributions from several folks in the issue, @snarfed.org (@schnarfed) did eventually figure out how to make hashtags in posts federate into Mastodon so it would rewrite their links into instance-local hashtag pages:
* https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/45#issuecomment-1468962400

Thus even though Iā€™m using the indieweb.social tag space on the hashtag links in my original post, if you are reading this post on Mastodon, you should see a hashtag like #IndieWeb link to your local instanceā€™s tag page for IndieWeb, and my post should show up on that page.

From testing a few other instances tag pages, this is now working, e.g. these tag pages:
* https://indieweb.social/tags/100DaysofIndieWeb (as expected)
* https://xoxo.zone/tags/100DaysOfIndieWeb
* https://mozilla.social/tags/100DaysofIndieWeb
displays the #MozFest post I published right after implementing linked hashtags (as well as this post by the time you see this).

I did go back and send Webmentions to BridgyFed send ActivityPub updates for all my past #100DaysofIndieWeb posts, however only a few of them showed up in those tag pages. Itā€™s not why a few did and most didnā€™t, nor why there were inconsistencies across instances. More to explore and debug.

Federated hashtags definitely need their own specification, because currently they barely interoperate when published, and even then require Mastodon-implementation-specific knowledge to function.


This is day 36 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days

ā† Day 35: https://tantek.com/2023/081/t1/mozfest-making-fediverse-socialweb
ā†’ šŸ”®


Glossary

h-entry
Ā https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
hashtag
Ā https://indieweb.org/hashtags
tag aggregation
Ā https://indieweb.org/tag_aggregation
tag page
Ā https://indieweb.org/tag_page
tags page
Ā https://indieweb.org/tags_page
#100DaysOfIndieWeb #IndieWeb #MozFest #100DaysofIndieWeb #100Days
github.com/capjamesg/indieweb-etherpad-archiver/issues
Tantek Ƈelik tantek.com

Warn if event or Etherpad link already archived

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@tchambers indieweb.social/@tchambers

@koss love this #Indieweb and #fediverse statement šŸ”„
@pbarker social.afront.org/@pbarker

Inspired by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) , I've been thinking about the IndieWeb idea of POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, see https://indieweb.org/POSSE) and how to extend the reach of my blog posts. So I'm trying something new and syndicating blog posts to dev.to.

dev.to makes this quite nice with native support a "canonical URL" for posts originally published elsewhere. It's also pretty easy to repost existing content to since it supports Markdown (my posts are written in reStructuredText for my website but can be easily converted to Markdown using pandoc) and future posts can be automatically shared to dev.to via an RSS feed.

So, assuming I don't find any reason to cancel this experiment, you'll be able to read my writing at https://dev.to/pbarker as well as here on Mastodon and on my website.

(originally posted at https://pbarker.dev/posts/2023-04-10/syndication/)

#writing #blog #blogging #indieweb
@htmldecoder indieweb.social/@htmldecoder

My blog (https://decodedHTML.com) is built using Rust's šŸ¦€ mdbook. Which is a tool to build books using markdown.

Moving into the indie web, I was too much concerned about the design and other features, that I forgot what I should use the indie web space for.

It's now a kind of devlog. Is indie web a fancy word for devlog? šŸ¤”

#rustlang #indieweb
David Shanske david.shanske.com

Webmention for WordPress 5.0 Released - April 9, 2023

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@nachtfunke indieweb.social/@nachtfunke

After a bit of break, I'm back at it with #webmentions. I am now wondering, if it is possible for someone to reply to a comment on a post?

This sounds a bit stupid because obviously that has to work. But I've never seen a webmention-powered comment section that actually has threads. Are there any examples out there on the #indieweb?