An IndieWeb Podcast: Episode 2 “IndieAuth”

Summary: At long last, after about three weeks worth of work, David Shanske (along with help from Aaron Parecki) has added the ability for the IndieAuth plugin for WordPress to provide an IndieAuth endpoint for self-hosted versions of WordPress, but it also has the ability to provision and revoke tokens.

This week, David Shanske and I discuss IndieAuth and the WordPress plugin’s new functionality as well as some related micropub work David has been doing. To some extent, I alternate between acting innocent and serving as devil’s advocate as we try to tease out some of the subtleties of what IndieAuth is and what it means to the average user. As usual, David does an excellent job of navigating what can be some complicated territory.

 
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Show Notes

Related IndieWeb Wiki Pages

• OAuth
• IndieAuth
  • IndieAuth spec
• RelMeAuth
• Micropub
• PESOS – Post Elsewhere, Syndicate to your Own Site
• POSSE – Post on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

Micropub Apps Mentioned in the episode

• Own Your Gram
• Own Your Swarm
• Own Your Checkin
• Quill
• Other micropub clients

Closing discussion on IndieWeb Readers and Microsub Pieces

• Indie reader
• Microsub
• Aperture (Aaron Parecki)
• Indigenous (Eddie Hinckle)
  • Android Alpha app (Kristof De Jaeger)
• Together (Jonathan LaCour and Grant Richmond)

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