#kylewm"barnabywalters it's essentially xmlrpc with public key verification"
#kylewmlol, it is somewhat depressing reading these references in the IRC logs reverse-chronologically ... barnaby gets more and more enthusiastic the farther back i go
#bengoFound this on there 'sot', which looks to be like a decentralized messaging protocol. It's JSON-based, meaning they could probably benefit from a standardized serialization format: https://zothub.com/help/Zot---A-High-Level-Overview . It looks like it's currently using some sort of activity like thing. { verb: 'post', ... }
#bengoIt seems like if I'm telling indiecert what my domain is, that domain is protected via HTTPS with a Cert signed by key A. If I can use the same key A for signing something when I logging in with indiecert, shouldn't I be trusted?
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#bengoesp if my site also has a fingerprint of the same cert (signed by key A, which I've just proven I have)
#bengocweiske Thanks for the advice. I'm hardly an expert in this. We'll see what fkooman says on that gh issue
#bengoIt appears based on other pulls that the main indiecert deployment is just using the host OS's trusted CAs. I suppose I'm proposing to either allow for an explicit whitelist that can be peer-reviewed in the source code, or just for his cURL requests to use the insecure flag, but verify via fingerprint
#tommorristhere's some things I'll want to add at some point: blocking, for one.
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#kylewmGWG: hey wordpress question for you... if you were posting a photo, would you use Post Format = Image, and what would the title/content of the post be?
#tommorristantek: I'm not sure yet. Need to doodle in my notebook some more. I am in the process of rebuilding Ferocity to be less hacky, but wanted to hack in likes to see how to make the next version of ferocity less crap. ;-)
#tanteknew features are a good way to instigate re-architecting for less hackiness ;)
#tantekas the Twitter analogy you draw is just a mention, not a "tagging"
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#tantekyou can (should) still send webmentions for "just" mentions, and thus you get the Twitter "start a new thread" functionality
#tantekperson-tagging is for when someone is part of the *subject* of a post, e.g. the post is about them (whether text or a photo of them)
#rhiarotantek: okay, that makes sense, just overthinking I guess
#Loqirhiaro: tantek left you a message 1 day, 9 hours ago: the examples of "that I probably don't need to create a post for." are all things that actually make sense as explicit posts with their own permalinks that you can update or delete! http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2015-04-12/line/1428904221618
#Loqirhiaro: tantek left you a message 1 day, 9 hours ago: " this presents another point for confusion: when do I like a post, and when do I like the fact you published it" <-- precisely why separate Activities vs. Objects is *bad* (confusing) for the user model, thus bad overall and to be avoided. http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2015-04-12/line/1428904302766
#davemenningerat some point many years ago, i got tired of constantly having to find up-to-date square-cropped images of myself, so i made a pixel-art logo to use instead
#gRegor`Does your website ever say "Sorry, I can't let you do that Dave"? :)
#gRegor`tantek: I guess I should move Chicago HWC to "Getting Started" section since it's technically on hiatus, until another person expresses interest?
#tantekwas just saying - if you want to add indieauth support to your personal site, you can add rel=me to your links to your other profiles / email etc.
#winghouchanpetermolnar: Nice! Not sure if there's a YRS Hyperlocal there but you can set one up!
#tantekhahahaha: "I personally do not know anyone who actively uses Google+."
#tantek"I personally abandoned the service because I found it difficult and tiring to categorize every single person into different “circles” and then keep track of all of those groups."
#tantekso much for all that socio-academic "circles" jerking around
#tommorrisI have a 'Wikipedians' list on Facebook so I don't spam non-Wikipedia friends with stuff that's not of interest to them.
#tantekwinghouchan: the right question to ask is, what's your personal website? which then links to the silo profiles (like Twitter) ;)
#petermolnartantek I've read that one as well, but I'm still thinking how the mentioned medium.com social experience could be done with indie sites; we used to have webrings an awful long time ago, is there anything similar nowadays?
#tantekthe point about "Recommend" in the Medium UI caught my eye
#tantekI'd suggest coming up with an indie version of that before any reminiscent stuff ;)
#tantekon Ello: "By the time I actually gained access to the website, however, everyone I know had already moved on and there wasn't really anything interesting for me on there."
#petermolnarthat's what I'm trying to do, but I need the brainstorm, because I cannot figure it out on my own
#tantekwhen you're not sure, then do less. e.g. how closely can you mimic the "Recommend" feature?
#tommorrispetermolnar: I find the whole medium "channels"/"magazines" thing pretty arbitrary. like I heard an interview with someone who was identified as being a staff writer for Matter, a channel on Medium. it's trying to recreate in digital land the idea of a publication or curatorship, but I just get feeds from Medium of people I care about regardless of which
#tantekand is it really called "iOS system calendar" ?!?
#tantekfrom an indieweb perspective, the real question is how do we aggregate all the events we're interested in onto our own *sites* (nevermind someone else's app)
#tantekand then POSSE it out to where ever we want notifications / mobile etc.
#tantekaaronpk do you have an aaronparecki.com/calendar where it aggregates all your RSVPs and Events?
#rhiaroaaronpk: i'm totally reliant on gcal at the moment, but andrei sambra has made a really nice looking linked data based clone. I just need to fix/tweak a few things, then I'm hoping I can just use that with my blog event/rsvp posts which are already available as rdf
#tantekfunny to hear you both say how reliant you are on gcal or " can not [sic] use google calendar"
#GWGKylewm, I stopped using post formats, but the title and caption would often match
#tanteksince I don't use it at all except to reserve the room space for HWC in my work calendar
#GWGI'll wait for someone to get an Indieweb version of Google Now
#rhiaroseeing time in coloured blocks helps me get a much better feel for how long I have for/between things
#tantekaaronpk - for multi day events I add them as all day events for each day
#KevinMarks_hm, did my foursquare calendar import break?
#aaronpki manage the airbnb rentals using the weekly view too, I don't know how I'd do that without it
#rhiaroI have a printout on my wall with days as coloured in squares to help me feel how long I have until deadlines/trips/etc, too. Without being able to see it all at once I tend to struggle to get a sense of time at all..
#tantekaaronpk - ooh a business like that with a resource that needs allocation - perhaps that's a good use-case
#aaronpki have to make sure the cleaner is scheduled between each guest, and gcal is the only place I can see both the bookings and the cleanings
#KevinMarks_they have a way to put appointment blocks up for booking too
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#KevinMarks_piping in other calendars is very handy
#aaronpkso anyway it is unlikely I will move away from google calendar any time soon, tho if an equivalent one I could run on my server popped up I could use it
#aaronpkluckily iCal files make it easy to send meeting requests between completely separate calendar systems so it's pretty interoperable
#aaronpkthe problem is google's Inbox is now trying to be smart about auto-adding things to your calendar, like flights when you get flight confirmation emails, and I would lose that moving to something non-gcal
#tantekaaronpk: the problem with google calendar is that it does not send a unique user agent when querying ics feeds, and it misunderstands robots no-crawl directives as no-subscribe
#aaronpkKML is an XML format for describing geographic data created for use with Google Earth and now maintained by the Open Geospatial Consortium https://developers.google.com/kml/
#tantekremember the whole checkins vs notes with location debate?
#tantekthis is an interesting point of view, substitute silo mentions for implied post types:
#tantek"It also doesn't make sense why you would use Swarm just to publish your current location when you can use Instagram to take a picture of where you are and geotag it, check-in to wherever you are on Facebook, or use location-based Tweets to let your followers know where you are."
#rhiarooccured to me at some point. Though I never actually made use of it
#tantekmy second use-case is personal tracking where I don't mind if my friends know where I am (and almost feel implicitly connected that they do know)
#rhiaroalso I've been largely trained not to talk to strangers, so it never seemed like a super good idea
#tanteklike I have no expectation of anyone showing up there, but just nice to know that some friends may know where I am
#tantekthird use-case: I use it sometimes for friends-only note publishing - that just happens to happen at a venue
#rhiaropersonal tracking I definitely get, it was the publishing part I didn't
#tantekoften times you can get a pretty personal view of "how was your day?" by checking my Swarm feed
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#rhiaroso if there's a note attached with a location, it's not a checkin-only post to me
#rhiaroI just remember seeing one person syndicating foursquare to twitter, and it was a constant stream of "Alex is at home"
#tantekrhiaro: in that way, I'm repurposing the "checkin with comment" as a "friends-only note with venue"
#rhiaroooh also if I publicly checked into places in London I'd definitely get responses from people offended I wasn't meeting up with them while I was around
#rhiarobecause there are too many people in London and never enough time
#tantekrhiaro: the defense against that is to announce a plan when you reach London (e.g. this night here etc.) and then ask people to try to meetup on one of those if they can
#tantekturn it from your responsibility into theirs, should they feel so entitled to your presence
#rhiaromy london friends are mostly shit. They don't make effort, then complain anyway :p
#rhiaroso I alternate between them on every trip, and still don't feel like I see anyone enough
#dariusdunlaptantek: I don’t really agree about lower density serendipity. In a dense area, you might come to ignore who’s nearby. But if I see that you’re anywhere in Half Moon Bay, I might drive over to find you.
#dariusdunlapI think pre-annnounced intention to be somewhere is an important variation… the KevinMarks_ pub night works best if people hear about it before it’s happening and can plan to show up.
#KevinMarks_othering is offering gender options male/female/other, instead of a free text field, making it clear that they are for marketing purposes, not self-expression.
#rhiaroone of them was an equality and diversity survey!
#dariusdunlapregarding faraway friend… even if they really aren’t that close by. I might drive to Palo Alto or SF, or even Napa… seems like the behavior varies based no many inputs
#KevinMarks_yes gRegor, using that term deiberately
#tantekanother aspect I like about checkins is that in their simplest form, they remove the cogntive load of having to come up with something to say (a note)
#tantekjust, hey, I'm here at this venue right now.
#aaronpkthat's the same reason I sometimes post photos with no text
#KevinMarks_dariusdunlap: i have had that experience of going to SF to see people from out of town when they visit
#rhiarogood also if you're at a busy place and want to find out if other people have arrived yet, and whether to look for them
#tantekby making the "note" secondary as a "comment" on the checkin, it also makes it ok to just put something minimal that only makes sense in the context of the checkin
#KevinMarks_then they move to SF and I don't see them in 2 years
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#tanteklike I checkin to the market and might just put a list of what I bought
#tantekrhiaro: does http://indiewebcamp.com/checkin#Why cover what we just talked about with checkins? or did we come up with new things in our recent IRC discussion above?
#gRegor`snarfed: No worries. In other news, Looks like Bridgy hasn't found this reply tweet yet https://twitter.com/girlvsplanet/status/587735912303329281. Log shows my h-feed was fetched after the original post so I don't think it's the feed being cached. The post was yesterday.
#benwerd1. I'm a little concerned that everybody now thinks I'm obsessed with chickens
#snarfedgRegor`: ahhhh i was confused, it was an existing comment on a different post. ok. yeah just caching. bane of my existence. cleared that cache item.