{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@weirdwriter",
        "url": "https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/111370824258573258",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>It appears my WebMentions are not working? I tried submitting a few of my posts to the <a href=\"https://tweesecake.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> news site, but the theme I am using doesn't have all those fancy H article formats and stuff. The IndieWeb themes I looked at for <a href=\"https://tweesecake.social/tags/WordPress\">#<span>WordPress</span></a> weren't accessibility ready, so does anyone have any thoughts on how can I make my blog more indieweb compatible without changing themes? I already have the IndieWeb plugin installed, as well as the syndication and WebMention plugin. Thoughts? <a href=\"https://tweesecake.social/tags/Accessibility\">#<span>Accessibility</span></a></p>",
        "text": "It appears my WebMentions are not working? I tried submitting a few of my posts to the #IndieWeb news site, but the theme I am using doesn't have all those fancy H article formats and stuff. The IndieWeb themes I looked at for #WordPress weren't accessibility ready, so does anyone have any thoughts on how can I make my blog more indieweb compatible without changing themes? I already have the IndieWeb plugin installed, as well as the syndication and WebMention plugin. Thoughts? #Accessibility"
    },
    "published": "2023-11-07T19:05:15+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39389225",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@schizanon",
        "url": "https://mas.to/@schizanon",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mas.to/@schizanon/111370372105922394",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/webMentions\">#<span>webMentions</span></a> work like this; you link to someone else's url, it sends a ping to that url's /webmention endpoint, then that site checks to make sure that your site has a link to it. </p><p>What stops you from removing said link after the verification has been approved by the mentioned site?</p><p>What if I write a blog post titled \"This is the best blog on the Internet\" and automatically <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/webmention\">#<span>webmention</span></a> every single site that accept webmentions, one at a time, replacing the mentioned url each time?</p><p><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "#webMentions work like this; you link to someone else's url, it sends a ping to that url's /webmention endpoint, then that site checks to make sure that your site has a link to it. What stops you from removing said link after the verification has been approved by the mentioned site?What if I write a blog post titled \"This is the best blog on the Internet\" and automatically #webmention every single site that accept webmentions, one at a time, replacing the mentioned url each time?#indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2023-11-07T17:10:15+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39388443",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@etp",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@etp",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@etp/111370084487319968",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Somewhat meta, but this month's <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> carnival is on the subject of Community and Belonging, which might be of interest to other people here.</p><p><a href=\"https://alexsirac.com/indieweb-carnival-community-and-belonging/\"><span>https://</span><span>alexsirac.com/indieweb-carniva</span><span>l-community-and-belonging/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Somewhat meta, but this month's #IndieWeb carnival is on the subject of Community and Belonging, which might be of interest to other people here.https://alexsirac.com/indieweb-carnival-community-and-belonging/"
    },
    "published": "2023-11-07T15:57:07+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39387574",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@accordionpolar",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@accordionpolar",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@accordionpolar/111368482439815031",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/webrings\">#<span>webrings</span></a> watch No. 33</p><p>Just For Fun <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/webring\">#<span>webring</span></a> <br /><a href=\"https://em.elliotsmoon.net/webring/members.php\"><span>https://</span><span>em.elliotsmoon.net/webring/mem</span><span>bers.php</span></a></p><p>Join the online hangout for sites that are all about good times and zero money-grabbing! If your website's all fun and games, this is your crew!</p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/fun\">#<span>fun</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/tech\">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/retro\">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/html\">#<span>html</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/programming\">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a></p>",
        "text": "#webrings watch No. 33Just For Fun #webring \nhttps://em.elliotsmoon.net/webring/members.phpJoin the online hangout for sites that are all about good times and zero money-grabbing! If your website's all fun and games, this is your crew!#fun #tech #retro #html #programming #indieweb #smallweb #web #webdev"
    },
    "published": "2023-11-07T09:09:41+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39384553",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.vaughnhannon.com/3147-2/",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Now that the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress is mature I\u2019m going to attempt to use only my WordPress based site as my gateway to the Fediverse. The Friends plugin should make this feasible. I\u2019m also hoping to eventually use the Indiepass app\u00a0 for reading/writing. Don\u2019t quite have the reading part sorted out yet tho. I may follow you again from my [\u2026]</p><p><a href=\"https://social.vaughnhannon.com/3147-2/\">https://social.vaughnhannon.com/3147-2/</a></p>",
        "text": "Now that the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress is mature I\u2019m going to attempt to use only my WordPress based site as my gateway to the Fediverse. The Friends plugin should make this feasible. I\u2019m also hoping to eventually use the Indiepass app\u00a0 for reading/writing. Don\u2019t quite have the reading part sorted out yet tho. I may follow you again from my [\u2026]https://social.vaughnhannon.com/3147-2/"
    },
    "published": "2023-11-07T04:53:27+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39383580",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@vaughnhannon",
        "url": "https://m.socialyeti.club/@vaughnhannon",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://m.socialyeti.club/@vaughnhannon/111367475007267455",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Now that the ActivityPub plugin for Wordpress is mature I'm going to attempt to use only my Wordpress based site as my gateway to the Fediverse. The Friends plugin should make this feasible. I'm also hoping to eventually use the Indiepass app\u00a0 for reading/writing. Don't quite have the reading part sorted out yet tho. I may follow you again from my social.vaughnhannon.com domain. Don't be alarmed. <a href=\"https://m.socialyeti.club/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://m.socialyeti.club/tags/wordpress\">#<span>wordpress</span></a> <a href=\"https://m.socialyeti.club/tags/activitypub\">#<span>activitypub</span></a> <a href=\"https://m.socialyeti.club/tags/indiepass\">#<span>indiepass</span></a> <a href=\"https://m.socialyeti.club/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.vaughnhannon.com/3147-2/\"><span>https://</span><span>social.vaughnhannon.com/3147-2</span><span>/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Now that the ActivityPub plugin for Wordpress is mature I'm going to attempt to use only my Wordpress based site as my gateway to the Fediverse. The Friends plugin should make this feasible. I'm also hoping to eventually use the Indiepass app\u00a0 for reading/writing. Don't quite have the reading part sorted out yet tho. I may follow you again from my social.vaughnhannon.com domain. Don't be alarmed. #fediverse #wordpress #activitypub #indiepass #indiewebhttps://social.vaughnhannon.com/3147-2/"
    },
    "published": "2023-11-07T04:53:29+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39383581",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@vjprema",
        "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@vjprema",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@vjprema/111367269020085369",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Anyone know good ways to search or discover things on the <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> or <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> ?</p><p>I suppose one definition is a search engine that excludes big tech siloed sites, spamblogs and listicles etc</p><p>So far I found that <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/Kagi\">#<span>Kagi</span></a> is able to search in smallweb mode, though it is a paid service and somewhat limited.</p>",
        "text": "Anyone know good ways to search or discover things on the #SmallWeb or #indieweb ?I suppose one definition is a search engine that excludes big tech siloed sites, spamblogs and listicles etcSo far I found that #Kagi is able to search in smallweb mode, though it is a paid service and somewhat limited."
    },
    "published": "2023-11-07T04:01:06+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39383339",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@MindCreatesMeaning",
        "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@MindCreatesMeaning",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://fosstodon.org/@MindCreatesMeaning/111367126560134055",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Dear WordPress<br />Thank you for enabling such a beautiful office, today. I\u2019m grateful.</p><p><a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/Shoutout\">#<span>Shoutout</span></a> to <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/WooCommerce\">#<span>WooCommerce</span></a> an\u2026</p><p><a href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/dear-wordpress/\"><span>https://</span><span>mindcreatesmeaning.com/dear-wo</span><span>rdpress/</span></a></p><p>Connect with me <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/author/autonomyagency/\">@<span>autonomyagency</span></a></span><br />Posted via ActivityPub <img alt=\":fedi:\" height=\"16\" src=\"https://files.mastodon.social/cache/custom_emojis/images/000/347/338/original/6750fbb96fb2ac59.png\" title=\":fedi:\" width=\"16\" /> for <img alt=\":wordpress:\" height=\"16\" src=\"https://files.mastodon.social/cache/custom_emojis/images/000/472/986/original/fcc0c9f8fbff7484.png\" title=\":wordpress:\" width=\"16\" /></p><p><a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/DigitalInfrastructure\">#<span>DigitalInfrastructure</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/PersonalJourney\">#<span>PersonalJourney</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/Perspective\">#<span>Perspective</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/Philosophy\">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/Professional\">#<span>Professional</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/developers\">#<span>developers</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/grateful\">#<span>grateful</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource\">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/pagespeedscores\">#<span>pagespeedscores</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/Shoutout\">#<span>Shoutout</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/thankful\">#<span>thankful</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/WebDev\">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/website\">#<span>website</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/WooCommerce\">#<span>WooCommerce</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/Wordpress\">#<span>Wordpress</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Dear WordPress\nThank you for enabling such a beautiful office, today. I\u2019m grateful.#Shoutout to #WooCommerce an\u2026https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/dear-wordpress/Connect with me @autonomyagency\nPosted via ActivityPub  for #DigitalInfrastructure #ActivityPub #PersonalJourney #Perspective #Philosophy #Professional #developers #grateful #indieweb #opensource #pagespeedscores #Shoutout #thankful #WebDev #website #WooCommerce #Wordpress"
    },
    "published": "2023-11-07T03:24:52+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39383262",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@g",
        "url": "https://hackers.town/@g",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://hackers.town/@g/111367086928687658",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Need help finding or piecing together a software that does a thing.</p><p>Dadboss informed me of something our company used to use way back, Yahoo Groups, as an email newsgroup.</p><p>Apparently, our members were really into it because they didn\u2019t have to go anywhere or log in to anything.</p><p>They received an email and simply hit reply and it added their response.</p><p>He wants something like that crossed with Substack.</p><p>Sounds like maybe something <a href=\"https://hackers.town/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> protocol can do? </p><p>I don\u2019t know; I\u2019m not a developer, but I\u2019m pretty good at piecing things together out of existing technology.</p><p>And maybe it already exists!</p><p>If someone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.</p>",
        "text": "Need help finding or piecing together a software that does a thing.Dadboss informed me of something our company used to use way back, Yahoo Groups, as an email newsgroup.Apparently, our members were really into it because they didn\u2019t have to go anywhere or log in to anything.They received an email and simply hit reply and it added their response.He wants something like that crossed with Substack.Sounds like maybe something #Indieweb protocol can do? I don\u2019t know; I\u2019m not a developer, but I\u2019m pretty good at piecing things together out of existing technology.And maybe it already exists!If someone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful."
    },
    "published": "2023-11-07T03:14:47+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39383168",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@kizu",
        "url": "https://front-end.social/@kizu",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://front-end.social/@kizu/111365587215205894",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>New post: \u201cMy First \u2018Fediversary\u2019\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://blog.kizu.dev/first-fediversary/\"><span>https://</span><span>blog.kizu.dev/first-fediversar</span><span>y/</span></a></p><p>Technically, I\u00a0tried Mastodon for the first time on\u00a0April 06, 2017, and tried again a\u00a0few times over the next few years, but it\u00a0did not stick with me\u00a0at\u00a0the time.</p><p>It\u00a0was rather lonely to\u00a0not have the people I\u00a0enjoyed following for years around.</p><p>That did change when <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://front-end.social/@mia\">@<span>mia</span></a></span> opened our instance, and my\u00a0presence here is\u00a0what I\u2019m celebrating today.</p><p><a href=\"https://front-end.social/tags/Fediversary\">#<span>Fediversary</span></a> <a href=\"https://front-end.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "New post: \u201cMy First \u2018Fediversary\u2019\u201dhttps://blog.kizu.dev/first-fediversary/Technically, I\u00a0tried Mastodon for the first time on\u00a0April 06, 2017, and tried again a\u00a0few times over the next few years, but it\u00a0did not stick with me\u00a0at\u00a0the time.It\u00a0was rather lonely to\u00a0not have the people I\u00a0enjoyed following for years around.That did change when @mia opened our instance, and my\u00a0presence here is\u00a0what I\u2019m celebrating today.#Fediversary #IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2023-11-06T20:53:24+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39381102",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "published": "2023-11-06T17:50:39Z",
    "url": "https://adactio.com/links/20604",
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        "publishing",
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        "code",
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        "text": "w/e 2023-11-05 (Phil Gyford\u2019s website)\n\n\n\n\n  On the one hand I still really enjoy writing code and making something work and look good (ish) and put it online where anyone in the world can see it. It\u2019s still like magic. And is still some kind of personal affirmation, a way of saying \u201chere I am!\u201d, of enjoying that it\u2019s noticed by someone, somewhere.\n\n\nTrue.\n\n\n  On the other hand, the maintenance. It\u2019s not like this is new to me, keeping things going for years, decades. And I try to make things as easy as possible \u2013 keep things up to date, make things in similar ways, stick to reliable and boring technologies, don\u2019t start too many things, etc. But, especially when several things aren\u2019t quite working right, it\u2019s such a weight.\n\n\nAlso true.",
        "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2023/11/05/weeknotes/\">\nw/e 2023-11-05 (Phil Gyford\u2019s website)\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>On the one hand I still really enjoy writing code and making something work and look good (ish) and put it online where anyone in the world can see it. It\u2019s still like magic. And is still some kind of personal affirmation, a way of saying \u201chere I am!\u201d, of enjoying that it\u2019s noticed by someone, somewhere.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>True.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>On the other hand, the maintenance. It\u2019s not like this is new to me, keeping things going for years, decades. And I try to make things as easy as possible \u2013 keep things up to date, make things in similar ways, stick to reliable and boring technologies, don\u2019t start too many things, etc. But, especially when several things aren\u2019t quite working right, it\u2019s such a weight.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Also true.</p>"
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@pirpleberry",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@pirpleberry",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@pirpleberry/111364453778150945",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Just a quick question to get to know the community: Why did you join <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>?<br />I am a german masters student in media literacy and when I was lookind for instances this one really seemed to align with my interests (Humane Tech, Digital Wellbeing, Values in Design).</p>",
        "text": "Just a quick question to get to know the community: Why did you join #indieweb?\nI am a german masters student in media literacy and when I was lookind for instances this one really seemed to align with my interests (Humane Tech, Digital Wellbeing, Values in Design)."
    },
    "published": "2023-11-06T16:05:09+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39378629",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@thudfactor",
        "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@thudfactor",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@thudfactor/111363393404577234",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I want to add some per-page Javascript to my Eleventy blog. What strategies should I look at for this? I'd prefer to keep the JS in a separate JS file instead of inlining it into my markdown template with bundle shortcodes. </p><p><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/eleventy\">#<span>eleventy</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/indieWeb\">#<span>indieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I want to add some per-page Javascript to my Eleventy blog. What strategies should I look at for this? I'd prefer to keep the JS in a separate JS file instead of inlining it into my markdown template with bundle shortcodes. #eleventy #indieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2023-11-06T11:35:29+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39376298",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@accordionpolar",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@accordionpolar",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@accordionpolar/111362763376431404",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/webrings\">#<span>webrings</span></a> watch No. 32</p><p>Autists Online <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/webring\">#<span>webring</span></a> <br /><a href=\"https://macaque.moe/autiring/\"><span>https://</span><span>macaque.moe/autiring/</span><span></span></a></p><p>A clique for websites on the <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> with <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/autistic\">#<span>autistic</span></a> webmasters. We believe that autistic identity and expression is something to be accepted and embraced! Consider joining today!</p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/tech\">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/retro\">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/html\">#<span>html</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/programming\">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/rights\">#<span>rights</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/accessibility\">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/a11y\">#<span>a11y</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/disability\">#<span>disability</span></a></p>",
        "text": "#webrings watch No. 32Autists Online #webring \nhttps://macaque.moe/autiring/A clique for websites on the #indieweb with #autistic webmasters. We believe that autistic identity and expression is something to be accepted and embraced! Consider joining today!#tech #retro #html #programming #web #smallweb #rights #accessibility #a11y #disability"
    },
    "published": "2023-11-06T08:55:15+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39375503",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2023-11-05 17:48-0800",
    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2023/11/i-now-have-the/",
    "category": [
        "indieweb",
        "indieauth"
    ],
    "content": {
        "text": "I now have the building blocks for Ticketing for IndieAuth set up.\n\nOn my staging site, the metadata endpoint now advertises the ticket_endpoint. That endpoint is accepting POST requests with parameters: ticket, resource, and subject. If the request is valid, it will be stored and return HTTP 202 with the message \u201cAccepted.\u201d Tickets are not automatically redeemed yet.\n\nIn the IndieAuth module admin, I set up a page to issue a ticket by entering a URL for \u201cAllow access to\u201d (the resource) and \u201cSend ticket to\u201d (the subject). Submitting that form will check the subject URL for an indieauth-metadata endpoint that advertises a ticket_endpoint. If that is found successfully, a ticket is created and sent there.\n\nFinally, I updated the token_endpoint to accept POST requests with grant_type=ticket and exchange the ticket for an access token.\n\nNext I will be working on automatically redeeming received tickets for access tokens and setting up some private posts to work with granted access tokens.\n\nI am currently using the same code that generates authorization codes to make the tickets. I think this should work fine because it already handles creating an opaque string that is valid for a short period of time (5 minutes). The module also ensures these can only be used once and logs key information for each request like client_id (source code). I need to run some tests to ensure tickets can\u2019t be used as authorization codes and I might need to add some metadata to differentiate the two in the admin area.\n\nFeel free to try to send a ticket to my staging site and ping me in IndieWeb dev chat. I can also send you a ticket if you\u2019d like to try that out. I look forward to discussing this with other implementers!",
        "html": "<p>I now have the building blocks for <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Ticketing_for_IndieAuth\">Ticketing for IndieAuth</a> set up.</p>\n\n<p>On my staging site, the <a href=\"https://staging.gregorlove.com/indieauth-metadata-endpoint/?pretty=1\">metadata endpoint</a> now advertises the <code>ticket_endpoint</code>. That endpoint is accepting POST requests with parameters: ticket, resource, and subject. If the request is valid, it will be stored and return HTTP 202 with the message \u201cAccepted.\u201d Tickets are not automatically redeemed yet.</p>\n\n<p>In the <a href=\"https://processwire.com/modules/process-indie-auth/\">IndieAuth module</a> admin, I set up a page to issue a ticket by entering a URL for \u201cAllow access to\u201d (the resource) and \u201cSend ticket to\u201d (the subject). Submitting that form will check the subject URL for an <code>indieauth-metadata</code> endpoint that advertises a <code>ticket_endpoint</code>. If that is found successfully, a ticket is created and sent there.</p>\n\n<p>Finally, I updated the <code>token_endpoint</code> to accept POST requests with <code>grant_type=ticket</code> and exchange the ticket for an access token.</p>\n\n<p>Next I will be working on automatically redeeming received tickets for access tokens and setting up some private posts to work with granted access tokens.</p>\n\n<p>I am currently using the same code that generates authorization codes to make the tickets. I <em>think</em> this should work fine because it already handles creating an opaque string that is valid for a short period of time (5 minutes). The module also ensures these can only be used once and logs key information for each request like client_id (<a href=\"https://github.com/gRegorLove/ProcessWire-IndieAuth/blob/main/src/IndieAuth/AuthorizationCode.php#L57\">source code</a>). I need to run some tests to ensure tickets can\u2019t be used as authorization codes and I might need to add some metadata to differentiate the two in the admin area.</p>\n\n<p>Feel free to try to send a ticket to my staging site and ping me in <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/dev/\">IndieWeb dev chat</a>. I can also send you a ticket if you\u2019d like to try that out. I look forward to discussing this with other implementers!</p>"
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "gRegor Morrill",
        "url": "https://gregorlove.com/",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@liztai",
        "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@liztai",
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    "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/111361900288994102",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://hachyderm.io/@mariyadelano\">@<span>mariyadelano</span></a></span> I think people are trying to solve that problem now, and one of them is to embrace <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> principles, fall back on email lists and federated social media. It's all going to be slower in terms of growth, but I think the connections we build this way will be more quiet and intimate.<br />I think a whole ecosystem is currently being built under the big, corporate surface that is Google search engines. One that is not as easily controlled or found.</p>",
        "text": "@mariyadelano I think people are trying to solve that problem now, and one of them is to embrace #IndieWeb principles, fall back on email lists and federated social media. It's all going to be slower in terms of growth, but I think the connections we build this way will be more quiet and intimate.\nI think a whole ecosystem is currently being built under the big, corporate surface that is Google search engines. One that is not as easily controlled or found."
    },
    "published": "2023-11-06T05:15:46+00:00",
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    "_id": "39374638",
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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2023-11-05 19:19-0800",
    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2023/11/ive-implemented-this/",
    "category": [
        "issue",
        "indieauth"
    ],
    "syndication": [
        "https://github.com/indieweb/indieauth/issues/127#issuecomment-1794026804"
    ],
    "in-reply-to": [
        "https://github.com/indieweb/indieauth/issues/127"
    ],
    "content": {
        "text": "I\u2019ve implemented this: my ticket_endpoint will accept a (currently optional) iss parameter. If that\u2019s included, the endpoint will check that the issuer URL advertises indieauth-metadata endpoint and is valid as described in the spec.\n\nI think I like this solution to the privacy concern. It also avoids the overhead of advertising endpoints on multiple resource URLs. So I lean towards requiring the iss when sending a ticket. However, I\u2019m not sure how many implementations might send an issuer URL that does not advertise the metadata endpoint.",
        "html": "<p>I\u2019ve implemented this: my <code>ticket_endpoint</code> will accept a (currently optional) <code>iss</code> parameter. If that\u2019s included, the endpoint will check that the issuer URL advertises <code>indieauth-metadata</code> endpoint and is valid as <a href=\"https://indieauth.spec.indieweb.org/#indieauth-server-metadata\">described in the spec</a>.</p>\n\n<p>I think I like this solution to the privacy concern. It also avoids the overhead of advertising endpoints on multiple resource URLs. So I lean towards requiring the <code>iss</code> when sending a ticket. However, I\u2019m not sure how many implementations might send an issuer URL that does not advertise the metadata endpoint.</p>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "gRegor Morrill",
        "url": "https://gregorlove.com/",
        "photo": "https://gregorlove.com/site/assets/files/6268/profile-2021-square.300x0.jpg"
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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2023-11-05 17:48-0800",
    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2023/11/i-now-have-the/",
    "category": [
        "indieweb",
        "indieauth"
    ],
    "content": {
        "text": "I now have the building blocks for Ticketing for IndieAuth set up.\n\nOn my staging site, the metadata endpoint now advertises the ticket_endpoint. That endpoint is accepting POST requests with parameters: ticket, resource, and subject. If the request is valid, it will be stored and return HTTP 202 with the message \u201cAccepted.\u201d Tickets are not automatically redeemed yet.\n\nIn the IndieAuth module admin, I set up a page to issue a ticket by entering a URL for \u201cAllow access to\u201d (the resource) and \u201cSend ticket to\u201d (the subject). Submitting that form will check the subject URL for an indieauth-metadata endpoint that advertises a ticket_endpoint. If that is found successfully, a ticket is created and sent there.\n\nFinally, I updated the token_endpoint to accept POST requests with grant_type=ticket and exchange the ticket for an access token.\n\nNext I will be working on automatically redeeming received tickets for access tokens and setting up some private posts to work with granted access tokens.\n\nI am currently using the same code that generates authorization codes to make the tickets. I think this should work fine because it already handles creating an opaque string that is valid for a short period of time (5 minutes). The module also ensures these can only be used once and logs key information for each request like client_id (source code). I need to run some tests to ensure tickets can\u2019t be used as authorization codes and I might need to add some metadata to differentiate the two in the admin area.\n\nFeel free to try to send a ticket to my staging site and ping me in IndieWeb dev chat. I can also send you a ticket if you\u2019d like to try that out. I look forward to discussing this with other implementers!",
        "html": "<p>I now have the building blocks for <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Ticketing_for_IndieAuth\">Ticketing for IndieAuth</a> set up.</p>\n\n<p>On my staging site, the <a href=\"https://staging.gregorlove.com/indieauth-metadata-endpoint/?pretty=1\">metadata endpoint</a> now advertises the <code>ticket_endpoint</code>. That endpoint is accepting POST requests with parameters: ticket, resource, and subject. If the request is valid, it will be stored and return HTTP 202 with the message \u201cAccepted.\u201d Tickets are not automatically redeemed yet.</p>\n\n<p>In the <a href=\"https://processwire.com/modules/process-indie-auth/\">IndieAuth module</a> admin, I set up a page to issue a ticket by entering a URL for \u201cAllow access to\u201d (the resource) and \u201cSend ticket to\u201d (the subject). Submitting that form will check the subject URL for an <code>indieauth-metadata</code> endpoint that advertises a <code>ticket_endpoint</code>. If that is found successfully, a ticket is created and sent there.</p>\n\n<p>Finally, I updated the <code>token_endpoint</code> to accept POST requests with <code>grant_type=ticket</code> and exchange the ticket for an access token.</p>\n\n<p>Next I will be working on automatically redeeming received tickets for access tokens and setting up some private posts to work with granted access tokens.</p>\n\n<p>I am currently using the same code that generates authorization codes to make the tickets. I <em>think</em> this should work fine because it already handles creating an opaque string that is valid for a short period of time (5 minutes). The module also ensures these can only be used once and logs key information for each request like client_id (<a href=\"https://github.com/gRegorLove/ProcessWire-IndieAuth/blob/main/src/IndieAuth/AuthorizationCode.php#L57\">source code</a>). I need to run some tests to ensure tickets can\u2019t be used as authorization codes and I might need to add some metadata to differentiate the two in the admin area.</p>\n\n<p>Feel free to try to send a ticket to my staging site and ping me in <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/dev/\">IndieWeb dev chat</a>. I can also send you a ticket if you\u2019d like to try that out. I look forward to discussing this with other implementers!</p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "gRegor Morrill",
        "url": "https://gregorlove.com/",
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    "post-type": "note",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@J12t",
        "url": "https://social.coop/@J12t",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.coop/@J12t/111360417336595190",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Remember The Well? Pioneering on-line community, still around after almost 40 years.</p><p>This week and next, it will host an on-line discussion on the <a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/Fediverse\">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> and <a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>.<br /><br />Glad to be part of it, together with <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://cosocial.ca/@evan\">@<span>evan</span></a></span>, <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://manton.org/activitypub/manton\">@<span>manton</span></a></span>, <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks\">@<span>KevinMarks</span></a></span> and <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@herestomwiththeweather\">@<span>herestomwiththeweather</span></a></span>. It's hosted by Jon Lebowsky, best known (to me at least) by doing the annual State of the World panel, also on the Well, with <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@bruces\">@<span>bruces</span></a></span>.</p><p>I'll post a link once the thread is public. With these panelists, it should be interesting!!</p>",
        "text": "Remember The Well? Pioneering on-line community, still around after almost 40 years.This week and next, it will host an on-line discussion on the #Fediverse and #indieweb.\n\nGlad to be part of it, together with @evan, @manton, @KevinMarks and @herestomwiththeweather. It's hosted by Jon Lebowsky, best known (to me at least) by doing the annual State of the World panel, also on the Well, with @bruces.I'll post a link once the thread is public. With these panelists, it should be interesting!!"
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    "published": "2023-11-05T22:58:38+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
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Ben Werdmuller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Belonging and community

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2023-11-05T20:07:20+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2023/belonging-and-community",
    "name": "Belonging and community",
    "content": {
        "text": "I love the indieweb carnival. Every month, a new blogger hosts a topic on their website, and everyone else is invited to post about it on theirs. Webmentions link it all together, allowing anyone to browse through all the different points of view and modes of expression. It\u2019s lovely.This month\u2019s IndieWeb Carnival topic is about community and belonging, so here are some thoughts about that.I\u2019ve been working with a new therapist who specializes in trauma, after realizing that I wasn\u2019t doing well at processing my mother\u2019s death and the decade leading up to it. My parents had moved to California a decade prior to that in order to look after my Oma (grandmother). When my mother\u2019s condition progressed to the point that she needed oxygen, my sister and I both moved continents to be closer to her. She had a double lung transplant that gave us all lots of extra time \u2014 in fact, more time than these sorts of transplant recipients get on average \u2014 but this is one of the most invasive surgeries you can do, and there were complications from the drugs, the surgery itself, the underlying condition. It was incredibly hard on her. In turn, it was hard on all of us in a way that\u2019s been difficult to process. I realized lately, for example, that I\u2019ve been having auditory flashbacks. I\u2019m really hoping a specialized therapist will help.Part of therapy is intake: giving your therapist the lowdown on who you are as a person and your general context. We\u2019ve been going through my childhood; she asked for me to discuss any particular life events of themes that stuck in my mind.A subset of the things that came to mind for me included:An entire factory floor of Albanian seamstresses lining up to pinch my cheeks while my parents looked on helplessly, unwilling to cause an international incident (this really happened)\nLiving in Vienna as a seven-year-old and almost becoming fluent in German until the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down in Ukraine and we moved back to Britain because my parents were worried about the fallout\nBeing a borderline third culture kid: growing up in Britain to American and Dutch / Indonesian / Swiss parents with extended stays in Austria and North Carolina\nLiving with the generational aftermath of concentration camp survival (my dad is one of the youngest survivors of Japanese-run camps in Indonesia)\nA few of these things made it difficult to connect to people when I was growing up. The thing about third culture kids is that they often don\u2019t get the implicit cultural references that everyone else seems to just know: the result is that I often felt like there must be some kind of hidden password that everyone else was in on that had never been shared with me. At the same time, I\u2019d picked up on a generational anxiety that I didn\u2019t even know existed, which made it hard for people to connect with me. Even now, as an adult, it\u2019s hard for anyone who hasn\u2019t helped care for a terminally ill loved one to really understand where I\u2019m at as a person. Quite often, I don\u2019t even know myself.I sometimes wonder if religion would have provided me with a stronger through-line of community, but I always remind myself that then I would have needed to believe in one. I\u2019m pleased for people who do have a sense of belief that adds to their life. Even after a childhood of Church of England schooling (and perhaps a little bit because of it) I can\u2019t bring myself to believe in any kind of higher power.I don\u2019t have the same questions about nationalism (or its cousin patriotism, which I believe sits on the same spectrum). I think putting so much identity into a place that you carry a sense of superiority over other places is so archaic, so unbelievably stupid, that I can\u2019t bring myself to entertain it. There is no greatest country in the world, or greatest state, or greatest town. We\u2019re all just people, and these borders are artificial divisions that serve to separate us.Case in point: one of the biggest rug pulls of my adult life was Brexit. When I moved to the US to help care for my mother, my intention was always to move back to the UK. Five years into this journey, Britain reminded me that I didn\u2019t really belong there: I was a European citizen, not a real British person, and I no longer had the legal right to return as anything more than a tourist. I already felt like I ripped my life apart (albeit for good reasons), and this came as a huge blow. I was born with American citizenship and can live here forever, but it\u2019s not like I feel like I belong here. There\u2019s a cognitive overhead to living in a country you didn\u2019t grow up in; an ongoing tension, and a sense of loss that never really goes away. Not anything close to the palpable loss that would come a few years later, but enough to tug at your soul.If there isn\u2019t a place where I feel belonging, there are, at least, people. One of the important facets of family (or at least, a close one, which I\u2019m grateful to have) is that you have shared cultural touchpoints, and shared context. I\u2019ve said before that family is my nationality and my religion, having no use for the traditional versions of either of those things. It\u2019s my primary community, too.But there are others. When I first connected to the internet, back in the mid-nineties, newsgroups occupied the space that social media and web forums take up now. Not long before, someone had created one specifically for British teenagers; I logged on with my dial-up Demon Internet account, started lurking, and then eventually dove in.There was something freeing about only being able to express myself in text, not least because I\u2019ve always had a very hard relationship with my own physicality. I\u2019m big, and was big early; I felt like the Incredible Hulk. There were hardly any mirrors in our house, and I\u2019d catch myself in the full-length ones in department stores and recoil. (I still do.) On the newsgroup, I didn\u2019t have to worry about any of that. I could just be me, without being bogged down by my pesky corporeal presence. Everyone else who posted there was kind of awkward in similar ways to me, too; the missed cultural understanding that I felt so profoundly in real life didn\u2019t seem to matter there at all.Eventually, we all met up in real life, and these people who I\u2019d met through words became lifelong friends. I hosted parties at my house and traveled around the country to visit other peoples\u2019. It was an experience I still strive to recreate; it\u2019s what informed the communities I created later on, although I later learned it wasn\u2019t as completely safe as I thought at the time.As an adult, my communities have been practice-based: indieweb, for example, or the community of Matter alumni. I\u2019m pleased to say I\u2019ve made lifelong friends from these places: people who mean the world to me. These are people who I do have a sense of belonging with, and I\u2019m grateful for it. And, of course, I have a new family of my own, which carries its own sense of belonging. (I\u2019m writing this as my sick child sleeps his way through a long nap; when he wakes up, I will hug him tight.)These days, I see my lack of geographic rootedness as a superpower. Sure, I don\u2019t really feel like I belong anywhere, but that also means I can be anywhere. There\u2019s no real tether to one particular place; no need to be in one location forever. And the benefit of being a permanent outsider is that I always have an outsider\u2019s perspective: I tend to see things in a different way to the people around me. Sometimes that turns out to be valuable; sometimes it brings a little scorn. At least it\u2019s something different.",
        "html": "<p>I love <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/indieweb-carnival\">the indieweb carnival</a>. Every month, a new blogger hosts a topic on their website, and everyone else is invited to post about it on theirs. <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Webmention\">Webmentions</a> link it all together, allowing anyone to browse through all the different points of view and modes of expression. It\u2019s lovely.</p><p><a href=\"https://alexsirac.com/indieweb-carnival-community-and-belonging/\">This month\u2019s IndieWeb Carnival topic is about community and belonging</a>, so here are some thoughts about that.</p><p>I\u2019ve been working with a new therapist who specializes in trauma, after realizing that I wasn\u2019t doing well at processing my mother\u2019s death and the decade leading up to it. My parents had moved to California a decade prior to that in order to look after my Oma (grandmother). When my mother\u2019s condition progressed to the point that she needed oxygen, my sister and I both moved continents to be closer to her. She had a double lung transplant that gave us all lots of extra time \u2014 in fact, more time than these sorts of transplant recipients get on average \u2014 but this is one of the most invasive surgeries you can do, and there were complications from the drugs, the surgery itself, the underlying condition. It was incredibly hard on her. In turn, it was hard on all of us in a way that\u2019s been difficult to process. I realized lately, for example, that I\u2019ve been having auditory flashbacks. I\u2019m really hoping a specialized therapist will help.</p><p>Part of therapy is intake: giving your therapist the lowdown on who you are as a person and your general context. We\u2019ve been going through my childhood; she asked for me to discuss any particular life events of themes that stuck in my mind.</p><p>A subset of the things that came to mind for me included:</p><ul><li>An entire factory floor of Albanian seamstresses lining up to pinch my cheeks while my parents looked on helplessly, unwilling to cause an international incident (this really happened)</li>\n<li>Living in Vienna as a seven-year-old and almost becoming fluent in German until the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down in Ukraine and we moved back to Britain because my parents were worried about the fallout</li>\n<li>Being <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid\">a borderline third culture kid</a>: growing up in Britain to American and Dutch / Indonesian / Swiss parents with extended stays in Austria and North Carolina</li>\n<li>Living with the generational aftermath of concentration camp survival (my dad is one of the youngest survivors of Japanese-run camps in Indonesia)</li>\n</ul><p>A few of these things made it difficult to connect to people when I was growing up. The thing about third culture kids is that they often don\u2019t get the implicit cultural references that everyone else seems to just <em>know</em>: the result is that I often felt like there must be some kind of hidden password that everyone else was in on that had never been shared with me. At the same time, I\u2019d picked up on a generational anxiety that I didn\u2019t even know existed, which made it hard for people to connect with <em>me</em>. Even now, as an adult, it\u2019s hard for anyone who hasn\u2019t helped care for a terminally ill loved one to really understand where I\u2019m at as a person. Quite often, I don\u2019t even know myself.</p><p>I sometimes wonder if religion would have provided me with a stronger through-line of community, but I always remind myself that then I would have needed to believe in one. I\u2019m pleased for people who <em>do</em> have a sense of belief that adds to their life. Even after a childhood of Church of England schooling (and perhaps a little bit <em>because</em> of it) I can\u2019t bring myself to believe in any kind of higher power.</p><p>I don\u2019t have the same questions about nationalism (or its cousin patriotism, which I believe sits on the same spectrum). I think putting so much identity into a place that you carry a sense of superiority over other places is so archaic, so unbelievably <em>stupid</em>, that I can\u2019t bring myself to entertain it. There is no greatest country in the world, or greatest state, or greatest town. We\u2019re all just people, and these borders are artificial divisions that serve to separate us.</p><p>Case in point: one of the biggest rug pulls of my adult life was Brexit. When I moved to the US to help care for my mother, my intention was always to move back to the UK. Five years into this journey, Britain reminded me that I didn\u2019t really belong there: I was a European citizen, not a real British person, and I no longer had the legal right to return as anything more than a tourist. I already felt like I ripped my life apart (albeit for good reasons), and this came as a huge blow. I was born with American citizenship and can live here forever, but it\u2019s not like I feel like I <em>belong</em> here. There\u2019s a cognitive overhead to living in a country you didn\u2019t grow up in; an ongoing tension, and a sense of loss that never really goes away. Not anything close to the palpable loss that would come a few years later, but enough to tug at your soul.</p><p>If there isn\u2019t a place where I feel belonging, there are, at least, people. One of the important facets of family (or at least, a close one, which I\u2019m grateful to have) is that you have shared cultural touchpoints, and shared context. <a href=\"https://words.werd.io/no-nationality-no-religion-6a556d718e3e\">I\u2019ve said before</a> that family is my nationality and my religion, having no use for the traditional versions of either of those things. It\u2019s my primary community, too.</p><p>But there are others. When I first connected to the internet, back in the mid-nineties, newsgroups occupied the space that social media and web forums take up now. Not long before, someone had created one specifically for British teenagers; I logged on with my dial-up <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Internet\">Demon Internet</a> account, started lurking, and then eventually dove in.</p><p>There was something freeing about only being able to express myself in text, not least because I\u2019ve always had a very hard relationship with my own physicality. I\u2019m big, and was big early; I felt like the Incredible Hulk. There were hardly any mirrors in our house, and I\u2019d catch myself in the full-length ones in department stores and recoil. (I still do.) On the newsgroup, I didn\u2019t have to worry about any of that. I could just be me, without being bogged down by my pesky corporeal presence. Everyone else who posted there was kind of awkward in similar ways to me, too; the missed cultural understanding that I felt so profoundly in real life didn\u2019t seem to matter there at all.</p><p>Eventually, we all met up in real life, and these people who I\u2019d met through words became lifelong friends. I hosted parties at my house and traveled around the country to visit other peoples\u2019. It was an experience I still strive to recreate; it\u2019s what informed <a href=\"https://words.werd.io/we-are-the-monkeys-of-rum-70f81d4a02df\">the communities I created later on</a>, although I later learned <a href=\"https://words.werd.io/sometimes-even-safe-spaces-arent-safe-a5bfddbb1eaa\">it wasn\u2019t as completely safe as I thought at the time</a>.</p><p>As an adult, my communities have been practice-based: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org\">indieweb</a>, for example, or the <a href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pressroom/5868/matter-three\">community of Matter alumni</a>. I\u2019m pleased to say I\u2019ve made lifelong friends from these places: people who mean the world to me. These are people who I <em>do</em> have a sense of belonging with, and I\u2019m grateful for it. And, of course, I have a new family of my own, which carries its own sense of belonging. (I\u2019m writing this as my sick child sleeps his way through a long nap; when he wakes up, I will hug him tight.)</p><p>These days, I see my lack of geographic rootedness as a superpower. Sure, I don\u2019t really feel like I belong anywhere, but that also means I can <em>be</em> anywhere. There\u2019s no real tether to one particular place; no need to be in one location forever. And the benefit of being a permanent outsider is that I always have an outsider\u2019s perspective: I tend to see things in a different way to the people around me. Sometimes that turns out to be valuable; sometimes it brings a little scorn. At least it\u2019s something different.</p>"
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