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Let's POSSE to Mastodon with a JSON Feed and a GitHub Action
After building a Node script for my own POSSE needs, I thought it would be good if other people could also use it. I knew not many people would be able to use the script as-is, so I built a GitHub Action that is much simpler to use, without losing any feature, even gaining some!
100 days of advices about IndieWeb from Tantek, there will be plenty to learn for sure!
Why you should have your own website
Don't wait for the next new platform to put all of those things into a walled garden - choose openness, interoperability and decentralization instead. Trust me, in a few years, when yet another platform goes bust and all those carefully curated albums, texts or discussions invariably disappear, you'll be happy to have this one place on the web that's all yours, for as long as you like.
My notes will now be push to Mastodon as toots, this feels great! 🎉
Owning your content on the web should not require extensive technical knowledge or special skills. It should be just as easy as signing up for a cellphone plan.
Your account is permanently suspended
Manuel's ban from Twitter should be a lesson for us all.
Matthias reacts to Manuel Matuzović's Twitter account suspension:
There are no rules to blogging except this one: always self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing you can own.
Into the Personal-Website-Verse
I can't believe I didn't share this great article sooner, when Matthias published it 3 years ago (already!).
Goodreads lost all of my reviews
Goodreads lost all data Nelson contributed for years, this is a sad reminder that owning our data is the only way to make sure it is safe for the future.
Trying to improve IndieWebness of my photography site, I wonder about this <data> HTML tag used on the h-geo microformat: http://microformats.org/wiki/h-geo#FAQ
Cool, Véro lance une nouvelle section dans son site pour des petites notes, ça laisse espérer plus de régularité dans les publications. 🎉
Matt Cambion
Personal Websites as Self-Portraiture
What Matt writes echoes a lot with some IndieWeb principles, even if he doesn't mention it.
J'ai bien fait en lançant ces billets d'annoncer que je ne serais probablement pas très prolixe…
David s'est jeté à l'eau et a lancé son propre site photo et vidéo ! 🎉
Je me rends compte que si je veux vraiment des échanges plus réguliers avec les amis qui publient plus chez eux que sur les réseaux sociaux, en mode IndieWeb inter-sites, il va falloir que nous nous mettions tous plus sérieusement à Webmention.
Comme je le disais il y a presque un an, écrire en français du contenu moins technique me manquait.
When reading about @morepolite, it reminded me about Jolicloud. Looks like it's normal: https://www.jolicloud.com/
Also, https://www.slowweb.io/ looks a lot like a VC friendly version of what #IndieWeb has been saying AND doing for many years… 🤔
When these things happen, as a community, I feel we should respond with kindness, support, and understanding when someone steps back from community participation or projects. We should not shame or guilt them in any way, and ideally act in such a way that welcomes their return whenever they are able to do so.
Heydon is back with a new brilliant Webbed Briefs video, this time about the rise and fall of the free Web, and the new hope that is IndieWeb.
Laurel Schwulst
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
Although they may seem initially accommodating and convenient to their users, universally popular social media sites—like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest—are private companies that prioritize advertising above their users’ needs. Their users’ happiness is not the primary focus, so it’s perfectly normal for you to feel anxiety when using or even thinking about social media. In this age of digital cacophony dominated by these platforms, no one is looking out for you… but you. It makes perfect sense, then, when individuals tell me they want their website to do the job of “setting the record straight” on who they are and what they do.
Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb
This is a great introduction to IndieWeb and its principles! 👍
I've been using Webmention for almost 2 years now, and I am fortunate to use Aaron Gustafson's jekyll-webmention_io plugin for Jekyll, the static site generator I currently use on this site. Aaron's plugin deals with getting the Webmentions from webmention.io, as the name implies, but also with sending mentions to external contents I link to in my own content.
Signal v Noise (aka SvN), the famous Basecamp blog, is also leaving Medium, joining the movement towards re-de-centralization of blogs. 👍🏻
I've been using Brid.gy since I started using Webmentions on this site, to get mentions from silos (Twitter mostly) back to the contents. This is an awesome service.
Medium is only an edge server of your POSSE CDN, your own blog is the origin
People tend to be lazy (I am often) and chose the easiest tool to do the job, even if it's not the best one. Medium is the new Blogger[1], but with a much nicer content editing UI, and a cleaner presentation of content to readers[2]. People can create and account and start publish in a few minutes, it's really easy. But how can all this be free?
So long Disqus, hello Webmention
Enough. I'm fed up with Disqus. It's been useful, easy to plug on this blog, but it's a mess for web performance, and I don't own my data, so… bye bye. Webmention is now a great alternative, with more people implementing it, so let's try to keep only that.
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Tantek Çelik
Max Böck
Manuel Matuzović
Matthias Ott
Robin Rendle
Heydon Pickering
Ana Rodrigues
Remy Sharp
David Heinemeier Hansson
Ryan Barrett