@pierce@mas.to nice broad coverage in https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network
Especially your #IndieWeb encouragements to:

 “own your own domain”

 “Have a space that is yours, that belongs to you, a username and identity that can’t disappear just because a company goes out of business or sells to a megalomaniac.”

As you pointed out, the “WordPress plug-in for ActivityPub” enables this today for people who use WordPress for their site.

One minor correction. You said:

 “… you might soon be able to turn your personal website into your entire social identity online”

Always have been.

About six months ago I setup my personal website https://tantek.com/ as my #fediverse address @tantek.com¹. No need for a separate Mastodon account on someone else’s instance.²

This transmission is coming to you³ … from my personal website.

For 13+ years I’ve been using my site as my social identity, using POSSE (before we called it that) to syndicate & distribute my posts to Twitter*, eventually to Facebook*, Flickr, GitHub, and now #federating directly with #ActivityPub supporting servers & services.

*Until they (Facebook, Twitter) dropped or disabled API access, and I haven't posted there since.

As you said:

 “It’s [your own domain is] your YouTube channel name and your TikTok username and your Instagram handle and your phone number and your Twitter @, all in one name”

https://tantek.com/contact is my “phone number”, it’s the 💬 on the top left on my home page.

The web is already “the underlying infrastructure of the social web”.

"your own domain" can already be “your identity for everything”.

Lots more on this at https://indieweb.org/

¹ https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
² https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
³ https://youtu.be/ScJvQhWL7Lg?t=24
https://tantek.com/2010/001/t1/declaring-independence-building-it
#IndieWeb #fediverse #federating #ActivityPub
In https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network, author @pierce@mas.to does an excellent job covering a broad range of #ActivityPub related updates, and goes beyond the usual #Mastodon focus to describe numerous implementations.

I was very happy to see that he also clearly communicated several #IndieWeb principles¹, practices, goals, and reasons why². Like this quote:

 “But the advice you’ll hear from most people in this space is this: own your own domain. Don’t be john@/mastodon.social or anna@/facebook.com. Have a space that is yours, that belongs to you, a username and identity that can’t disappear just because a company goes out of business or sells to a megalomaniac.”

and this:

 “It’s [your own domain is] your YouTube channel name and your TikTok username and your Instagram handle and your phone number and your Twitter @, all in one name.”

Great interviews with @stevetex@mozilla.social, @mike@flipboard.social, @dustycloud.org (@cwebber@octodon.social), @evanp.me (@evan@cosocial.ca), @anildash.com (@anildash@me.dm), @coachtony@me.dm, and @manton.org (@manton@manton.org).

As Manton said in the article:

 “If you solve identity with domain names, it makes things easier because it fits the way the web has been for 20 years,”

Pierce also noted:

 “you might soon be able to turn your personal website into your entire social identity online”
 
Already can.

I replied to Pierce’s post³ about his article noting this⁴, from #federating directly from my website for the past ~6 months⁵, to over a decade of using it as my social identity with the POSSE method⁶ with various #socialMedia silos.

It’s important enough that I’ll repeat part of Pierce’s quote at the top:

 “own your own domain. Don’t be john@/mastodon.social or anna@/facebook.com. Have a space that is yours”
 
He gets it. Don’t be someone at someone else’s server.

Big Chad or Little Chad’s garages⁷ are social media stepping stones towards owning your own domain and IndieWeb presence.

We’re here when you’re ready to take that next step: https://chat.indieweb.org/


This is day 38 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days

← Day 37: https://tantek.com/2023/109/t2/years-ago-first-federated-indieweb-thread
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¹ https://indieweb.org/principles
² https://indieweb.org/why
³ https://mas.to/@pierce/110231624819547202
https://tantek.com/2023/110/t1/
https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes

“Convenience is one of those things you pay interest on. And when the price is as valuable as our attention, it’s rarely worth the cost”

Another #blog post up and some more thoughts about the digital world, the attention economy and the tools we use (and how they use us in return)

On a side note, it’s quite exciting to see this little blog of mine starting to actually take shape now.

#indieweb #neocities #linux #google #twitter #SmallWeb

https://mikegrindle.com/posts/autonomy

The Verge has a long article by David Pierce today about ActivityPub. The quote from me about domain names doesn’t come across quite how I intended it… Yes, domain names are hard, but we need to make them much easier to deal with because they’re actually great.

new blog post! 🧑‍💻

this one is a little til on running python, via cron, in a docker container, on a raspberry pi (and all the associated headaches)

https://andrewconl.in/til/running-python-in-cron-in-docker/

#selfhost #webdev #indieweb #blog #docker #python #raspberrypi

This might be the most important blog post I ever wrote. It's been a while since I wanted to publish some sort of personal manifesto on my site.

After I stopped promoting myself as if I were a brand, I needed to put my foot down and declare what I stand for, on the only place that's not going away: my personal website.

So, here it is. A personal manifesto, where I touch on these topics:

#MentalHealth
#Sustainability
#Technology
#SmallWeb
#IndieWeb
#SocialMedia

https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/personal-manifesto/

10 years ago today the first #federated #IndieWeb comment thread was published and collected peer-to-peer IndieWeb replies across websites without any intermediary, silo or otherwise¹.

2013-04-19 @eschnou.com posted a brief note on his personal site with #atMentions of a few domains (putting an '@' sign immediately before a domain name to indicate an explicit cross-web @-mention), which itself was also a first²

 "Testing #indieweb federation with @waterpigs.co.uk, @aaronparecki.com and @indiewebcamp.com !"

When @aaronpk.com was notified and replied from his site within minutes³, it became the first peer-to-peer federated IndieWeb comment thread, at the time using h-entry and Pingback. I blogged about it a few days later.

Earlier this year I blogged more observations of all the user interactions that happened on that day and shortly thereafter to make this all work: https://tantek.com/2023/014/t4/domain-first-federated-atmention

Unfortunately Laurent Eschnou’s original post is no longer up, and we only have the Internet Archive copy. However most of the IndieWeb reply posts are still up including Barnaby’s: https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/1334/

The oldest still working federated post and comment thread was second overall, unsurprisingly from @aaronparecki.com, a whole 40 days after Laurent’s first.

This is day 37 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days #OpenWeb #federation #fediverse

← Day 36: https://tantek.com/2023/100/t1/auto-linked-hashtags-federated
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Glossary

federation
 https://indieweb.org/federation
h-entry
 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
Pingback
 https://indieweb.org/Pingback
reply post
 https://indieweb.org/reply

References

¹ https://web.archive.org/web/20130427010301/http://eschnou.com/entry/testing-indieweb-federation-with-waterpigscouk-aaronpareckicom-and--62-24908.html
² https://tantek.com/2023/014/t4/domain-first-federated-atmention
³ https://aaronparecki.com/2013/04/19/3/indieweb
https://tantek.com/2013/113/b1/first-federated-indieweb-comment-thread
https://aaronparecki.com/2013/05/21/4/xkcd
#federated #IndieWeb #atMentions #indieweb #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days #OpenWeb #federation #fediverse
@fredrocha.net (@john_fisherman@mastodon.social) saw your post (https://mastodon.social/@john_fisherman/110224246899618915) from the #IndieWeb stream. Beautiful photos on your site! #btconf was great wasn’t it?

My personal URL is https://tantek.com/ and my #fediverse @ is @tantek.com. My Atom feed file is auto-discoverable by feed readers from my home page.

Feeding (so to speak) two discovery birds with one stonefruit¹.

Your personal website can be your fediverse address², each providing seamless discovery for the other.

As web developers we should be building & developing our personal sites to exemplify the latest & greatest of such practices, including using Mastodon/ActivityPub as yet another distribution mechanism (ala POSSE) for your existing personal websites rather than a separate profile/stream.

Discussed this with @nebu@mastodon.social and @kadirtopal@mastodon.social just after the last talk @beyondtellerrand.com (@btconf@mastodon.social @btconf) yesterday, fitting conference closing thoughts complementing the heartfelt opening talk by @localghost.dev (https://sophie.omg.lol/ @sophie@social.lol)³.

Glossary

ActivityPub
 https://indieweb.org/ActivityPub
feed file
 https://indieweb.org/feed_file
POSSE
 https://indieweb.org/POSSE

References

¹ https://tantek.com/2020/147/t2/replace-violent-metaphors
² https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
³ https://tantek.com/2023/107/t1/beyond-tellerand-talk-love-personal-website
#IndieWeb #btconf #fediverse
10 years ago today the first #federated #IndieWeb comment thread was published and collected peer-to-peer IndieWeb replies across websites without any intermediary, silo or otherwise¹.

2013-04-19 @eschnou.com posted a brief note on his personal site with #atMentions of a few domains (putting an '@' sign immediately before a domain name to indicate an explicit cross-web @-mention), which itself was also a first²

 "Testing #indieweb federation with @waterpigs.co.uk, @aaronparecki.com and @indiewebcamp.com !"

When @aaronpk.com was notified and replied from his site within minutes³, it became the first peer-to-peer federated IndieWeb comment thread, at the time using h-entry and Pingback. I blogged about it a few days later⁴.

Earlier this year I blogged more observations of all the user interactions that happened on that day and shortly thereafter to make this all work: https://tantek.com/2023/014/t4/domain-first-federated-atmention

Unfortunately Laurent Eschnou’s original post is no longer up, and we only have the Internet Archive copy. However most of the IndieWeb reply posts are still up including Barnaby’s: https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/1334/

The oldest still working federated post and comment thread was second overall, unsurprisingly from @aaronparecki.com⁵, a whole 40 days after Laurent’s first.

This is day 37 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days #OpenWeb #federation #fediverse

← Day 36: https://tantek.com/2023/100/t1/auto-linked-hashtags-federated
→ 🔮


Glossary

federation
 https://indieweb.org/federation
h-entry
 https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
Pingback
 https://indieweb.org/Pingback
reply post
 https://indieweb.org/reply

References

¹ https://web.archive.org/web/20130427010301/http://eschnou.com/entry/testing-indieweb-federation-with-waterpigscouk-aaronpareckicom-and--62-24908.html
² https://tantek.com/2023/014/t4/domain-first-federated-atmention
³ https://aaronparecki.com/2013/04/19/3/indieweb
https://tantek.com/2013/113/b1/first-federated-indieweb-comment-thread
https://aaronparecki.com/2013/05/21/4/xkcd
@fredrocha.net (@john_fisherman@mastodon.social) saw your post (https://mastodon.social/@john_fisherman/110224246899618915) from the #IndieWeb stream. Beautiful photos on your site! #btconf was great wasn’t it?

My personal URL is https://tantek.com/ and my #fediverse @ is @tantek.com. My Atom feed file is auto-discoverable by feed readers from my home page.

Feeding (so to speak) two discovery birds with one stonefruit¹.

Your personal website can be your fediverse address², each providing seamless discovery for the other.

As web developers we should be building & developing our personal sites to exemplify the latest & greatest of such practices, including using Mastodon/ActivityPub as yet another distribution mechanism (ala POSSE) for your existing personal websites rather than a separate profile/stream.

Discussed this with @nebu@mastodon.social and @kadirtopal@mastodon.social just after the last talk @beyondtellerrand.com (@btconf@mastodon.social @btconf) yesterday, fitting conference closing thoughts complementing the heartfelt opening talk by @localghost.dev (https://sophie.omg.lol/ @sophie@social.lol)³.

Glossary

ActivityPub
 https://indieweb.org/ActivityPub
feed file
 https://indieweb.org/feed_file
POSSE
 https://indieweb.org/POSSE

References

¹ https://tantek.com/2020/147/t2/replace-violent-metaphors
² https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
³ https://tantek.com/2023/107/t1/beyond-tellerand-talk-love-personal-website

Is there a #fediverse variant that has implemented threads well?

I think this might be an underestimated feature. There's a cadence that the threaded microblog post created that is kind of a new mode of communication - even a new kind of format for thinking.

It's this format that allows us to share the hook of a thought, then unpack it. It facilitates collaboration on early ideas - including testing the soundness of those ideas.

#Mastodon #SocialTech #IndieWeb

📢 Webmention Support in Enhance Blog Template

Our next step towards making it easier for folks to participate in the open and indie web is adding support for incoming and outgoing webmentions to the Enhance blog template.

by @macdonst

#enhance #blog #indieweb #webmentions

https://begin.com/blog/posts/2023-04-19-webmention-support-in-enhance-blog-template

@fredrocha.net (@john_fisherman@mastodon.social) saw your post (https://mastodon.social/@john_fisherman/110224246899618915) from the #IndieWeb stream. Beautiful photos on your site! #btconf was great wasn’t it?

My personal URL is https://tantek.com/ and my #fediverse @ is @tantek.com. My Atom feed file is auto-discoverable by feed readers from my home page.

Feeding (so to speak) two discovery birds with one stonefruit¹.

Your personal website can be your fediverse address², each providing seamless discovery for the other.

As web developers we should be building & developing our personal sites to exemplify the latest & greatest of such practices, including using Mastodon/ActivityPub as yet another distribution mechanism (ala POSSE) for your existing personal websites rather than a separate profile/stream.

Discussed this with @nebu@mastodon.social and @kadirtopal@mastodon.social just after the last talk @beyondtellerrand.com (@btconf@mastodon.social @btconf) yesterday, fitting conference closing thoughts complementing the heartfelt opening talk by @localghost.dev (https://sophie.omg.lol/ @sophie@social.lol)³.

Glossary

ActivityPub
 https://indieweb.org/ActivityPub
feed file
 https://indieweb.org/feed_file
POSSE
 https://indieweb.org/POSSE

References

¹ https://tantek.com/2020/147/t2/replace-violent-metaphors
² https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
³ https://tantek.com/2023/107/t1/beyond-tellerand-talk-love-personal-website
#IndieWeb #btconf #fediverse

We finished #btconf last night talking about the discoverability of personal websites with @sophie and @nickautomatic.

It turns out it's hard to be read, even if you have captivating and original content.

Reply to this post with your personal url and I'll link you on my website, https://fredrocha.net. Bonus points if you have an RSS feed link.

Let's start a @btconf webring!

#indieweb

Back at Beyond Tellerand (@btconf@mastodon.social @btconf) and delighted to see the opening talk by Sophie Koonin (https://localghost.dev/ https://sophie.omg.lol/ @sophie@social.lol)

“This Website Is under Construction – a Love Letter to the Personal Website”

#indieweb

https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2023/speakers/sophie-koonin

See Sophie’s related post on “Building a website like it's 1999... in 2022” (https://localghost.dev/blog/building-a-website-like-it-s-1999-in-2022/)

Hoping that some day someone in the #cryptography community takes notice of my Apis Cipher. I know it's not "cryptographically secure", but I do believe it's novel and not without its merits. That said, my #crypto math skills aren't the strongest, so maybe I'm wrong. I would love to see, though, a thorough break down of where it's strong and where it's not.

https://www.vzqk50.com/projects/cipher/
#IndieWeb #encoding #encryption

Apparently #Joomla can be #IndieWeb|ified too: https://blog.astrid-guenther.de/en/cassiopeia-joomla-indieweb/ 🤔

I mean Joomla (and especially it’s UI) gives me the creeps but good to know I guess.

#indieweb #joomla

https://beko.famkos.net/2023/04/18/15628505/

does anyone know a french-language alternative to the wonderful https://blogroll.org ?

#en #blogging #indieweb

Back at Beyond Tellerand (@btconf@mastodon.social @btconf) and delighted to see the opening talk by Sophie Koonin (https://localghost.dev/ https://sophie.omg.lol/ @sophie@social.lol)

“This Website Is under Construction – a Love Letter to the Personal Website”

#indieweb

https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2023/speakers/sophie-koonin