#indieweb 2019-01-15

2019-01-15 UTC
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jeremycherfas
!tell [cleverdevil] Are you going to go back and add comments or notes to those 275 listen posts, or is it enough for you to just know that you listened?
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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[cleverdevil]
I think it’s enough to know that I listened.
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[cleverdevil]
In the future, I may start leaving comments or notes on the posts.
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jeremycherfas
Right. That’s what I would do.
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Loqi
Flickr Pro discount code (FLICKRPRO15 at checkout) expires on 2019-01-15!
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Loqi
Countdown set by [tantek] on 2019-01-07 at 11:46pm PST
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jeremycherfas
Good morning IndieWeb
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sknebel
good morning!
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jeremycherfas
In my plans today, continue walking through Grav's comment plugin to try and discover why it is broken.
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[jgmac1106]
Here is a set of posts I wrote last night for Mozilla friend who runs up the Diversity and Inclusion initiatives. Couldn't find resources on why you should blog in FOSS https://jgmac1106homepage.glitch.me/opensourceblogging.html would love any feedback
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[jgmac1106]
I figure I didn't break my rule of nothing but book for writing if I end up using some if in our Open Pedagogy book
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[jgmac1106]
morning [sknebel] and [jeremycherfas]
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[jgmac1106]
actual link: http://jgregorymcverry.com/opensourceblogging.html well off to get kids ready for school and thn back to finishing this dumb book
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gRegorLove
Howdy #indieweb
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[kim_landwehr]
I am trying to indiewebifying my blot.im account using the instructions at https://blog.amitgawande.com/micropub-endpoint-for-blot. However after finishing the set up and trying to use quill.io I am getting an error message from my Micropub Endpoint, however the box that would contain the full information is blank. Does anyone know how to get that information to show up?
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[tantek]
Welcome back gRegorLove!
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[tantek]
[kim_landwehr], no idea unfortunately. Anyone else using blot.im?
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[tantek]
What is blot.im?
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Loqi
Blot is an open source blogging platform built by David Merfield that uses Dropbox to store your content https://indieweb.org/blot.im
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[tantek]
I’d check the IndieWeb Examples section there
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j4y_funabashi
Hey guys, I have started brainstorming and building out my micropub client https://indieweb.org/okami
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[tantek]
[kim_landwehr] maybe try that ^^^ and see if it works with your Blot setup?
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[kim_landwehr]
Thanks [tantek] I will try that
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j4y_funabashi
there is a running version here http://okami.funabashi.co.uk you should be able to login and post a note & see a version of my ideal photo posting UI
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[tantek]
Meanwhile I’m not sure how to react to this https://www.instagram.com/p/BsOGulcndj-/
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gRegorLove
reacts with an "eggcellent!"
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aaronpk
j4y_funabashi: neat! is the "gallery" things that have been recently uplaoded to the media endpoint?
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j4y_funabashi
yes it will be. At the moment it is just static data
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aaronpk
very cool
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j4y_funabashi
aaronpk: I want to build out my media server so I can upload all my photos to it, then use this interface to add them to posts
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aaronpk
nice! that's kinda what i've been thinking too
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aaronpk
i just haven't got very far with it. like at most some UI sketches and rough notes but last time i touched that was over a year ago
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j4y_funabashi
and also have a flag to say whether the photo has already been published (I think I could use webmentions for this)
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j4y_funabashi
aaronpk: Yeah I have been blocked only thinking about the server side. As soon as I started with UI first it all came together quite nicely
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j4y_funabashi
aaronpk: I take it you were able to login?
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[zak]
Good morning Indieweb
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dgold
aaronpk: can I ask you - how does your slack->irc thing not create a cascade of forwarded emssages?
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[chrisaldrich]
good morning indiewebz
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jeremycherfas
Good morning [chrisaldrich]
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aaronpk
dgold: it knows which messages it sends to IRC and doesn't send those back to Slack if that's what you mean
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[chrisaldrich]
It seems like I recall someone recently created a wiki page related to the idea of "discovery", but with a different word relating more to search, directories, serendipity, etc. I'm not finding it now however.
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dgold
ah, so you have the same system sending them both ways
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aaronpk
no, but all the slack people in IRC have the same IRC username
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jeremycherfas
Was that Kicks Condor?
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jeremycherfas
Oh no, you said on the wiki. Sorry.
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[tantek]
what is discovery
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Loqi
Discovery for the IndieWeb is a set of algorithms to start with a URL like a home page or post permalink, and determine information about that URL, such as authorship, page-name, and date published https://indieweb.org/discovery
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[chrisaldrich]
Something related to the ideas that Brad Enslen and kicks condor have been working on, but i'm not sure either are doing much on the wiki...
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[tantek]
feel free to start something there as an alternative meaning!
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[chrisaldrich]
I'm trying to think of what would be a good alternate catch all that might fit into /lost_infrastructure and covers the ideas of discovery, /recommendation_engine, /who_to_follow, /tags, /planet, etc.
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[chrisaldrich]
Brad and Kicks have been doing some interesting experiments and thinking and we should tuck it into the wiki somewhere.
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[tantek]
go ahead and use "discovery" for now - it's short, and the meaning you speak of is user-centric, so we should prefer it anyway
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[tantek]
add it as another section, and we can update / rewrite the page later to clean it up from that perspective
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aaronpk
recommendation engine, who to follow, etc all sound like a form of discovery to me
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snarfed
indieweb has done really well so far with naturally decentralized/peer to peer functionality, but naturally centralized stuff (eg search, discovery/recommendation, etc) is obviously harder
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snarfed
interesting to think of how to approximate something like discovery decentralized. eg as a single user, look at the people in your reader, collect other people they like/repost/reply to, and rank them somehow
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snarfed
(as opposed to a centralized service)
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[tantek]
Snarfed I don’t view discovery as necessarily centralized. Eg napster, BitTorrent etc
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snarfed
oh agreed, it's definitely *doable* decentralized. just not *natural*.
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snarfed
as opposed to eg a reply, which is naturally one to one.
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[tantek]
ah ok. Yes experienced seems to back that assessment
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[jgmac1106]
[chrisaldrich] yes we were documenting Tumblr discovery somewhere recently
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sknebel
somewhat high-profile silo-quit, and a nice example for "use a custom domain": https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-exits-medium/
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[tantek]
I feel this applies to a lot of us too: "Writing for us is not a business, in any direct sense of the word. We write because we have something to say, not to make money off page views, advertisements, or subscriptions. "
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[tantek]
Medium << Criticism: 2019-01-15 SvN: [https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-exits-medium/ Signal v Noise exits Medium]
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Loqi
ok, I added "Criticism: 2019-01-15 SvN: [https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-exits-medium/ Signal v Noise exits Medium]" to the "See Also" section of /Medium https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=55593&oldid=55156
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[chrisaldrich]
DHH's silo quit has been building for a while... They made a high profile exit from Facebook in December: https://m.signalvnoise.com/Become-A-Facebook-Free-Business/
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[chrisaldrich]
Are they working toward one silo quit per month?
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[chrisaldrich]
I'm curious if signalvnoise.com has always had that "m" subdomain or if they picked it up when they moved to Medium?
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[benatwork]
The latter
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[chrisaldrich]
They also sound like they're moving away from Twitter too in a much more indie fashion:
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[chrisaldrich]
"Not just big, marque pieces, but lots of smaller observations, quotes, links, and other posts as well. In fact, the intention is to lessen our dependency on Twitter too, and simply turn Signal v Noise into the independent home for all our thoughts and ideas – big or small."
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[chrisaldrich]
What is discovery?
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Loqi
Discovery is a variety of methods for finding content, websites, communities, or people to follow on the web including search, directories, recommendation engines, tags, or other serendipitous methods https://indieweb.org/discovery
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[chrisaldrich]
^^ thoughts and ideas more than welcome on this alternate user-centric definition
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[tantek]
looks pretty good, I'd only drop "to follow" as that's just one possible use-case
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[tantek]
what is own your data
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Loqi
own your data is an IndieWeb principle with two key parts: 1) your data lives primarily on your own domain, and 2) you maintain usable access to it over time https://indieweb.org/own_your_data
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[tantek]
what is own your replies
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "own your replies" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "own your replies is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek]
own your replies is the IndieWeb approach of posting your [[reply]] posts on your own site first and using [[Webmention]] to automatically send them to show up as [[comments]] on the original post, and/or automatically having your site [[POSSE]] them to silo (copies of) posts.
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[tantek]
own your comments is the IndieWeb approach of accepting [[Webmention]]s and in particular from [[reply]] posts as part of collecting all the [[responses]] to your posts on your own site so if/when the original reply posts disappear, you still have a copy of the conversation.
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[tantek]
what is own your comments
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "own your comments" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "own your comments is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek]
own your comments is the IndieWeb approach of accepting [[Webmention]]s and in particular from [[reply]] posts as part of collecting all the [[responses]] to your posts on your own site so if/when the original reply posts disappear, you still have a copy of the conversation.
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[kevinmarks]
mapping the responses would mean everyone else would need to export theirs and then send webmentions?
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[tantek]
own your comments << Note: this is particularly important because many silo exports (e.g. [[Medium]]) do not export the comments on your posts per https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-exits-medium/ <blockquote>sad to say, Medium didn’t let us export the comments, so those are gone 😢</blockquote>
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Loqi
ok, I added "Note: this is particularly important because many silo exports (e.g. [[Medium]]) do not export the comments on your posts per https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-exits-medium/ <blockquote>sad to say, Medium didn’t let us export the comments, so those are gone 😢</blockquote>" to a brand new "See Also" section of /own_your_comments https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=55602&oldid=55601
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[kevinmarks]
medium does give you some moderation control over comments now
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[tantek]
what is moderation
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Loqi
Moderation is the process of holding comments for review by a human, and sometimes a source of frustration when a comment is written on another site that the commenter has no control over https://indieweb.org/moderation
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[tantek]
[kevinmarks] perhaps screenshot their support and add it to "Silo Examples" there?
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[kevinmarks]
Interesting discussion on early web Function with Anil Dash: Social Media, 20 Years Ago https://glitch.com/function
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blueyed
Can you recommend some good DNS server? OpenDNS appeared to be a good alternative a while ago, but might not be anymore?!
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jacky
blueyed: I use a mix personally
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jacky
DNSimple for the interface (I have it for my consultancy + personal) and IWantMyName if it's cheaper
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jacky
blueyed: what's wrong with OpenDNS though?
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blueyed
jacky: thanks.. I've meant as a server, instead of the one you might get via DHCP (because it intercepts no-domain responses for example), and if you do not want to use Google's.
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blueyed
Re OpenDNS - would be OK I guess, but wondered if there is something recommended from you.
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[smerrill]
I use Quad9
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[smerrill]
9.9.9.9
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[smerrill]
CloudFlare has 1.1.1.1, too.
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[smerrill]
both support DNS-over-TLS, so you can protect your DNS lookups.
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jacky
ah okay
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snarfed
[smerrill]: you mean DOH, right?
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snarfed
(i think over TLS may be somewhat different, and is less adopted)
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snarfed
ah nm, those two at least do support both
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[smerrill]
yup. they both support DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS
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blueyed
Thanks. DNS-over-TLS would be interesting - what do you use for this? Network Manager does not seem to support it. Is something like stubby required?
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snarfed
we probably need to -> #dev
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