I am using the Quill client to send data to my site. I have not tried out any other micropub clients but I could if I wanted to. They all support the same standard. ❧
When I think about it, likes and bookmarks are somewhat difficult to distinguish for my purpose. A bookmark inherently implies that I liked a post because I usually only bookmark posts on Pocket that I like and want to save for later. I use Firefox bookmarks to track the articles that I have not yet read and want to come back to later. There is a distinction. A like is clearer. It’s my way of saying that I did like your content. Not everybody will know my policy on bookmarks, so having a like feature is useful. ❧
Tell me what you dream of seeing in WordPress, whether your jokes or your most serious hopes, I'm not making product decisions so this doesn't constitute a promise, I just want to hear about it and get my brain back into that mode again :)
— Helen 侯-Sandí (@helenhousandi) September 8, 2020I've always been lowkey bummed that post formats got shelved.
— Jason Cosper (@boogah) September 8, 2020
Now that Automattic owns Tumblr, maybe it's a good time to revist that concept.I loved post formats. Learning how to add integration for them in child themes and designing each taught me so much PHP.
— Courtney Robertson (@courtneyengle) September 9, 2020
I'd like to see more psuedo HTML without learning markdown. In the block editor, type /hr. Now do that with all the things. /h2 please.
The UI part that often bogs down the posting process is the complexity of Gutenberg or the myriad of meta-boxes. To remedy this I try to pair one of the many Micropub clients (I like Quill or Omnibear as flexible examples) for posting to my website and then allowing Post Kinds to handle the rest for creating reply contexts and posting the minimum necessary metadata.
I want to get started with #indieweb what is the easiest way to do that? Esp wrt syndication tools
— the big cauchy/cosh(y) couch (@fourierfiend) September 10, 2020
There are lots of ways to syndicate content, some dependent on which platform(s) you’re using and where you’re syndicating to/from. Your best bet is to swing by the IndieWeb Dev chat and ask that very question.
Theorem: Syndication is easy.
Proof: “It’s easy to show” (I’m waving my hands here) that there are a lot of assumptions and baggage that go with the word “easiest.” ∎
I’ve personally found there’s generally an inverse relationship between ease/simplicity of syndication and control over exact display for most platforms. You could go low-fi and pipe your feed into something like IFTTT/Zapier for cross-posting all the way up to customized integration with available APIs for each platform. Many take a middle-of-the-road approach that I notice Jeremy recommended as I’m writing this.
The cross-posting wiki page will give you some useful terminology and definitions which may help you decide on how to syndicate what/where. Based on the context of the URL in your Twitter profile, the IndieWeb wiki pages for static site generator and syndication will give you some ideas and options to think about and explore.
Some of the pages about specific static site generators will give you some code and ideas for how to implement syndication. For example Max Böck has an article Indieweb pt1: Syndicating Content to Twitter, which is Eleventy and Twitter specific, but which could likely be modified for your purposes. SSGs may have some specific peculiarities for syndication that I’m not as familiar with coming from the more dynamic side of the fence.
Since you indicate a language preference for your current site, there’s also a page for Flask with a few users noted there. You might ask Fluffy (usually around in chat) for some advice as I know she syndicates to a few platforms and may have some ideas or even tools/code to share from the Flask perspective.
Q.E.D., right!?
(p.s.: Great Twitter handle!)
Tell me what you dream of seeing in WordPress, whether your jokes or your most serious hopes, I'm not making product decisions so this doesn't constitute a promise, I just want to hear about it and get my brain back into that mode again :)
— Helen 侯-Sandí (@helenhousandi) September 8, 2020This is sort of tangental, but I'd love a form of the mobile app that acted exactly like Instagram, but posted to a WordPress blog.
— topher1kenobe (@topher1kenobe) September 9, 2020Pretty much. Maybe category. I've always imagined a single pic, rather than many. So I take the pic, put in title, optional desc, optional category, and hit send. If you want to get fancy you could use a Setting to use a custom post type instead of Post, but that's gravy.
— topher1kenobe (@topher1kenobe) September 9, 2020
For more details look at Micropub and WordPress: Custom Posting Applications. It uses the W3C Micropub recommended spec and most of the current clients are open source if anyone wants to build their own web or mobile interfaces.
Sunlit for iOS is a Micropub compatible app that supports photos. PhotoPostr looks promising too for photos and collections.
If you want to go crazy to support some of the other niceties on your site, add Simple Location plugin for showing GPS location and weather conditions and Post Kinds plugin for custom (and customizable) photo display (meant to be compatible with Micropub, but doesn’t have Gutenberg support).
Here’s an example photo from this morning: https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/09/55776473/
Naturally it’d be awesome to see Micropub support in core.
#pyrocumulus pic.twitter.com/cQRWGjgvOh
— Jon Udell (@judell) September 9, 2020
It’s also the last time that Mt. Wilson was threatened, though tonight it’s from the East side of the mountain. I’m watching closely because I’m 8 miles from the Bobcat Fire to the East and we’re under an evacuation warning. Fortunately the live cam has some reasonably clear footage of the immediate danger as the observatory is 4 miles up the hill above us.
Nick Grant (Nick Grant)This is a story about writing...
To date, I have written and published 1,357,076 words on this blog. Today is the 5 year anniversary of me starting this blog. I have published 1,086 blog posts, which is an average of 4 per week. I think many writers would be pleased to write and publis...
Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net)Almost a week ago, I noted a blog post by Ana Ulin: Adding Structured Book Data to My Blog Posts. Ana added a section to the front matter of her book posts that contains information about the book in question, including her rating. She was kind enough to share ...
One person tinkers around with an idea and posts about how they did it. Someone else sees it and thinks it’s cool and wants it for themselves. They then modify it for their system, maybe with some changes or even improvements, and post the details on their site.
They’ve both syndicated copies to IndieWeb news or to the IndieWeb wiki, so that in the future, others looking for that sort of UI research or examples can find them and potentially modify them for their own personal use.
And the cycle begins anew…
Felix Pleşoianu (Felix Rambles)At the end of June, I subscribed to micro.blog with some amount of hope. Nine weeks later, I canceled my account. Yeah, isn't that public timeline gorgeous? All pretty photos and thoughtful posts. Surprise! It's heavily curated. To the point of being suffocating in fact. You'll never going to see th...
This reads like Felix thinks the discover feed is the entire point of the platform and not simply a tangential discovery mechanism for new users. It feels like they didn’t realize they could subscribe to anyone they wanted and that feed is the one that most people find more valuable and use regularly.
It also reads like they weren’t getting any interaction at all in terms of replies/comments. Not sure if they had a paid account (and were just using micro.blog) or if they’re using their own site and just don’t have webmentions which means they have to manually go to find interactions.
On the other hand, micro.blog is doing a tremendous amount compared to simple silos like Twitter, Facebook, and Mastodon, so I’m not surprised that some people can misconstrue what is going on or even why. A lot of how you use it depends on what resources you have when you come to it. If anything though, micro.blog is the last thing out there that’s a walled garden in the social space.
Olu (olu online)Operating systems, elitism, and everything (okay, only a few other things).
If you need more, you can probably add lots quickly by connecting your site with Brid.gy to get reactions backfed from Twitter and other sites.
Tracy Durnell (Cascadia Inspired)There are lots of things to be excited about in joining the Indie Web, like supporting a more human-centered version of the web and connecting better with others across the web. Joining the Indie Web involves a few steps to … Continue reading →
Could I also use Indie Web tools for a persona, or is that not in keeping with the community? ❧
The community is all about websites and identity, so having a website for a pen name is exactly the sort of thing you should definitely do! I’m sure there are a few who have done it, but I’m unaware of any documenting it yet. Starting a stub page on the wiki for pen name could be a good start if you do.
Annotated on August 27, 2020 at 03:25PM
I haven’t committed to the philosophy of completely owning all the data I post online. I feel like this is something else I can take step by step, getting used to the change as I go. ❧
This can be a daunting task. I often ask people “How do you eat an entire whale?”
The only plausible answer is “One bite at a time”, so I suggest you do the same thing with your social media presences and other data. One step at a time.
Annotated on August 27, 2020 at 03:28PM
As someone who writes social media for work, I am deeply rooted in the practice of writing a unique intro when I share a post to Twitter, not directly syndicating it with whatever text I started the article with. For me that feels good enough (not saving that unique share to my site) since including the link means any likes and comments about the article come back to my blog thanks to Bridgy, but maybe someone will convince me otherwise 😉 ❧
I’ll often share articles to Twitter and don’t necessarily do a 1-to-1 match of the syndicated copy on Twitter. Usually I’ll excerpt a piece that ends up appearing on Twitter with a link back to the article. I generally presuppose that if they’re interested, they’ll click through and read otherwise they’re bookmarking it or sharing the link with others, so those interactions coming back to the original are always fine with me.
Annotated on August 27, 2020 at 03:30PM
Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 11:00 AM:Corporate social media has been dominating the online space so significantly that the newest generation of Internet users now thinks that is what the "web" actually is. Fortunately, with WordPress as your platform, you can not only take back your online identity and presence, but you can use it to have a richer and fuller experience than the locked-down experience you get with the limits of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
Chris will explore some open web standards and technologies that open up WordPress to allow site-to-site interactions and easier posting functionality through the magic of a small handful of simple plugins. These are simple enough building blocks that the beginning WordPress user can do some powerful new things with their sites but are also rich enough that senior developers can build and extend them or find uses for them for business sites and even e-commerce.
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14uctBWq7SNvB8yVW7jYPhb4i6dXT02NXdpdd9pHESv0/edit?usp=sharing
Aaron Parecki (Aaron Parecki)not sure if it's cheaper to buy all the Microsoft Flight Simulator accessories or actually train for a pilots license https://youtu.be/shpK1Gjvnuo
Would you be interested in a service like Medium, with all its benefits of reach and exposure, but where you would own both your platform, content and audience 100%?
— Rik Nieu (@RikNieu) August 9, 2020
I'm working on just that. Good idea?#writers #blogger #contentwriting
Last year's most common refrain in my classes: show me where it says that in the text. This year, I'm using @hypothes_is so that text annotation can be the main form of class activity out of which our class discussions, assignments, examinations, and essays will grow.
— hungry bread elevator {αἱματόϊδρις} (@AGWilsonn) August 7, 2019