After a bit of experimentation and tinkering tonight, it appears that one can use their #WordPress website to create threaded conversations on #Mastodon (and likely other portions of the #Fediverse) using the IndieWeb syndication strategy of POSSE with backfeed of comments using #Webmention and Brid.gy. I’d outlined the process using Twitter in the past, and the same principles seem to work well for Mastodon. #IndieWeb #FTW #FediTips
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Short content: a microblog of status updates or short notes
For #FeedReaderFriday this week, I’m recommending a feed reader—a different sort of feed reader: https://fraidyc.at/. Kicks Condor has designed an interface that you can sort by frequency/time as well as tag. It also encourages you to read content on the person’s site directly, so you get the web experience they chose rather than a more vanilla interface.
Wishing everyone a Happy #NewwwYear. Seems like 2023 may be a good time to make a fresh start and explore setting up your own website to own & control your online identity & content.
I’ve got lots of friends in a supportive online community who can help: https://indieweb.org
One might think that instead of using Hugo (or previously Medium) that Mastodon’s blog would be on an ActivityPub-based platform likeWriteFreely. This seems like a missed opportunity for ActivityPub, but a bigger win for the (more) open web.
In addition to following people on Mastodon in your feed reader via #RSS, you can also follow hashtags which appear there. For example, to follow #IndieWeb try: https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb.rss. #FeedReaderFriday
Keep in mind that the output of these feeds will be instance specific, and the tag feed will only get mentions from your instance and instances yours can “see” (or gets by follows with federation). So if you use a different instance, you may see more or less in your feeds. Because of its size and depth of federation, this makes mastodon.social a good bet for these sorts of subscriptions, but your experience may vary depending on your needs.
#ConspiracyTheories: Jack Dorsey makes his first post (and a critical one) on Revue on 12/13, so Elon Musk shuts it down the following day? 🤔
Thinking of changing up my strategy for syndicating content from my website into Mastodon. How can my posts integrate better with ActivityPub?
MEMO
TO: app developers considering #Mastodon and other #ActivityPub related apps and interfaces
Perhaps spend a day or two to add Micropub support to the platform first, then your app could potentially be used to publish to ANY website/platform that supports the W3C spec. #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #FTW
This #FeedReaderFriday I’m recommending:
- Maggie Appleton (feed) for her thoughtful blends of design, thinking, and anthropology
- Manton Reece (feed) for his spectacular work in bringing humanity to the web through Micro.blog
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick (feed) for her publishing experiments and generous thinking
And all three for their kindness and thoughtfulness in technology spaces.
Perhaps hidden/unknown to many, but hcommons.social and other instances running the Hometown version of Mastodon, have the ability to post only to their local community and specifically not federate their content to the broader Fediverse. In the posting interface, click on the link icon and choose whether you want to allow your post greater reach or stay only within your community. This can be a helpful affordance for having smaller/restricted conversations. #FediTips
@jimgroom I’ve not seen the admin UI, but is there a toggle for what appears on the
/explore page of an instance? I notice that some smaller instances have pages of people to check out (opted in by each user in the settings), eg: https://hcommons.social/explore. Did social.ds106.us specifically opt out of this for its instance?I’m not sure I’ve mentioned it, but one of my favorite “hidden” Mastodon features in the user interface is simply typing the character “?”. It opens up a list of keyboard shortcuts that make a lot of the features I always wish I’d had available. #FediTips
Portmanteau mischief: brouhaha = bruja + haha = a witch comedian
Watched the draw between U.S. 🇺🇸 v England 🏴. Things don’t look so good for Wales 🏴, but I still have high hopes. ⚽📺
#FeedReaderFriday Wonder what I’m reading? Here’s my own following list:
https://boffosocko.com/about/following/
https://boffosocko.com/about/following/
A central list I control with associated RSS feeds & OPML files makes it portable for use in various kinds of feed/social readers.