A simple technique offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party platforms.
IndieWeb
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Molly White has a POSSE
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indieweb wp
Likes WordPress IndieWeb setup with a block theme by .
Awesome to see more people documenting their stuff!
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websites and freedom
Love the references to Casablanca here.
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send a friend a webmention day
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SaFaWD
Likes Send a Friend a Webmention Day by .
July 30 is the International Day of Friendship, but folks in the indie web celebrate by sending their friends a webmention.
With some troubleshooting help from David, you can now send a generic webmention to nicksimson.com, and it will show up (probably after some comment moderation) on my Mentions page.
Please, keep it friendly.
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Thanks, David!
No need to apologize, David! Thank you for taking the time to troubleshoot this with me this week. I’m sure the next plugin update will help a lot more users out there.
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More on IndieBlocks Webmention
Thanks for taking the time to read my post, Jan, and for providing additional insight into IndieBlocks’ webmention functionality.
Last night, I tried disabling the Webmention plugin and enabling IndieBlocks’ implementation. Things work, but I couldn’t figure out how to get profile images to display on previous facepiles and replies. Happy to take this discussion to GitHub issues if necessary.
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My current Webmention setup
I thought it may be helpful to share my configuration settings and demonstrate how I’m using both the Webmention plugin and IndieBlocks on the same site.
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indie web advice
Write websites. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, coding would be it. The long term benefits of coding websites remains unproved by scientists, however the rest of my advice has a basis in the joy of the indie web community’s experiences. I will dispense this advice now…
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A quick note on cross-posting
In IndieWeb parlance, POSSE means Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. I like the concept. Today, I’m changing a few things about how I syndicate my content.
All my main feeds (posts, notes, likes) will continue to automatically syndicate to my account over at Micro.blog. Micro.blog is a wonderful platform. While I no longer host my content there, I will still syndicate and interact with the community.
I turned off automatic cross-posting to my Bluesky account and my Mastodon account. The way Micro.blog handles cross-posting is nice, but I want to have a little more control over what my notes and posts look like on these platforms. They are similar to Micro.blog, but different in many ways too. Not just in the way links look and character limits, either.
When I look at my timeline on either of these apps, it…looks like a bot.
So I find myself deleting many of the automatic Bluesky copies and editing the Mastodon ones later, because I’m fickle about how these things look. So I’m going to always post here first, but will try manually cross-posting to Bluesky, Mastodon, and elsewhere. My hope is that this will make me more intentional about what I share and how I share it.
Also, maybe not every post on my website needs to be versioned on another social network. I’m going to try being OK with that, too.
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InclusiveWeb
An IndieWeb that isn’t inclusive offers no value to the world. An IndieWeb built by and for only certain people isn’t a web at all. An IndieWeb that allows someone to feel like less of a person is a tragedy.
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Front End Study Hall
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This sounds like a promising event. Hoping I can make it, contribute, and learn.
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webmenchies
Bookmarked The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions by .
I hadn’t read Terence’s post before writing down my own thoughts on replies and federation early this year. I’m still bridging for now, and my policy is still to take down anything on request from the original author.
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Revisiting my accessibility statement
Rather than being a performative gesture, an accessibility statement can be a useful thing to feature on a personal website.
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Inclusive hosting
A significant part of my responsibilities as host is ensuring that everyone feels included. Nobody wants to join a meetup that they think is interesting and then feel like they don’t quite fit in. For this to happen on the account of perceived knowledge one must have — often an impression made by discussions being too technical, or using too much in-speak — is a failure. Not everybody will enjoy a meetup, but if someone’s expectations are not met because a discussion was too technical, it feels like a failing.
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Click around, find out.
Likes Click Around, Find Out.
The indie web shrinking wasn’t really the fault of social media companies and other “big tech”. It was the fault of people who abandoned their own little place on the net.
John Hoare