#indieweb 2020-02-24

2020-02-24 UTC
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[tantek]
Gosh that was much harder than I expected. More in dev
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[jgmac1106]
Getting close on my last goal of the day: https://jgregorymcverry.com/mypoetry now just a matter of playing with typography till it's purdy and media queries....need to do one of those...
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[jgmac1106]
and fix the incorrect audio files plus catch up them up to date...but really excited. More so for the general learning about how tools use and consume feeds that I am walking away with.
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[ColinMorris]
Neat.
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[jgmac1106]
thx, media query done...now to break out the Sundays
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[jgmac1106]
...oops sorry for slang, Sunday's=nice clothes you would wear to church, using as metaphor for playing with fonts and colors and borders and goodies
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oh_that_courtney
In case anybody is interested, the site I created at IndieWebCamp is now live: http://www.crosenthal.com/
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oh_that_courtney
The "Deprecate Facebook" post (it was phony text in the demo) is here: http://www.crosenthal.com/2020/02/23/deprecate-facebook/
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[gRegorLove]
oh_that_courtney++ awesome!
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Loqi
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jacky
oh_that_courtney++
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Loqi
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oh_that_courtney
thanks gRegorLove, jacky
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[dave]
oh_that_courtney++ yeah!
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Loqi
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[tantek]
blogged my project day project, uploaded a screenshot to the wiki. good night all!
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Loqi
[indienews] New post: "Publ v0.5.16 released" https://publ.beesbuzz.biz/blog/437-Publ-v0-5-16-released
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AkyRhO
Good morning Indieweb
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AkyRhO
I just noticed omnibear for firefox dissapeared
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AkyRhO
anyone know what happened?
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AkyRhO
the chrome extension seems to be still available though
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[chrisaldrich]
AkyRho, I'm not sure, perhaps a better question for keithjgrant, though it may have to wait for the morning as I recall he's on US EST timezone. Others may know in the meanwhile.
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[chrisaldrich]
I just reconfigured it on Chrome last week as it was having trouble with my micropub endpoint. (I was able to manually create a token and get it up though.)
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@tripofmice
Are you interested in a federated alternative to Goodreads that doesn't use Amazon? because I'm making a federated alternative to Goodreads that doesn't use Amazon https://github.com/mouse-reeve/fedireads
(twitter.com/_/status/1230235138341998592)
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sknebel
AkyRhO: it had issues before where Mozilla rejected it in review, I'm assuming tha's happened again...
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AkyRhO
thanks for the answers, i'll check it out again in a few days then
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sknebel
AkyRhO: seems like this has been ongoing actually: https://github.com/keithjgrant/omnibear/issues/92
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Loqi
[sonnyp] #92 Omnibear is not available on addons.mozilla.org anymore
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Loqi
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AkyRhO
sknebel++
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AkyRhO
apparently it's a long time issue
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AkyRhO
i've just been slow to notice it
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AkyRhO
;)
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jmac
Good afternoon IndieWeb! A professional colleague recently asked me why anyone would want to actually learn & use Webmention today, and drafted this reply: https://jmac.org/misc/webmention-why.html Does this seem generally correct to y'all? Am I missing any obvious points?
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[jgmac1106]
I would add some headings to improve readability
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aaronpk
a lot of that should be added to https://indieweb.org/Webmention!
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jmac
This is just going into an email or something
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[jgmac1106]
I am also assuming audience has some level of prior knowledge based on jargon used. If not may want to simplify
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[jgmac1106]
I like headings in my emails too. Anything you can do to reduce inferences of your organization for audiences
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jmac
It's literally a response to one person who I'm trying to sell on the idea, which I haven't really done before, and I wanna make sure I'm not selling em a bill of goods. :)
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jmac
But also an interesting challenge to put into words why I'm interested in WM, yes, and I could adapt it into a short public post
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[jgmac1106]
Transitions are great. Last sentence of each paragraph leads me to next paragraph
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[jgmac1106]
Do your best to write the first sentence using zero jargon and then list your reasons up front. Possibly in bullet points. No one reads entire emails
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jmac
Yeah I think it's better if I move the paragraph starting "A writer" to the top
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jmac
Since this is meant to answer the question "Why would anyone use this?"
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[jgmac1106]
Imagine a world where writers could own there content, interact with an audience, and not be at the whims of social media who can destroy an audience overnight.
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[Michael_Beckwit
we call it a bad experience because the last time we had that, it was the 90s/early 2000s
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[Michael_Beckwit
now to just get us back to those same things but with modern web experience 😄
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[jgmac1106]
This is not some utopian dream but a real possibility when we all publich content on personal websites connected with webmentions. ..new paragraph
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[jgmac1106]
A webmention is a building block of the open web that allow two sites to talk together without the peering and profit sucking drains of social media. Basically if you publish a piece on your website I can write a review on my website and this review will show up as a comment to your original posts
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[jgmac1106]
Webmentions will be benefical to writers, brands, and media....short paragraphs you already have for each
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[jgmac1106]
heading for each of the audiences and/or benefits based on how you organize your reasons
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Loqi
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[jgmac1106]
good writing overall...just a writing teacher...so I can get overly critical
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jmac
[jgmac1106]: Haha. Thank you, I appreciate it!
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jmac
This is actually someone asking me over a LinkedIn message, and my reply will be "Uh I threw together a webpage to reply to you, here"
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jmac
Which is the proper IndieWeb AF answer
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[jgmac1106]
truth be told I ran a bit of experiments...articles I linked to from my domain with an image, far out perform articles written on LinkedIn's pulse....by orders of magnitude
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jmac
I believe it
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jmac
Just to grab a picture of a cloud or a duck or something to lead my articles about beep-boop computer stuff with
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jmac
And they give you prefabbed attribution HTML
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jmac
My final answer to the original questioner is now at https://jmac.org/misc/webmention-why.html, and I think I will look to turn that into a little blog post or something
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[jgmac1106]
oooh then install Alan Levine's CC flickr attribution tool, super helpful
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[jgmac1106]
I still like the older one for all the media types: https://oldsearch.creativecommons.org/
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Aethelfeld
hi
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Aethelfeld
hello wolftune
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wolftune
Aethelfeld: o/
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Aethelfeld
how are you wolftune
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Aethelfeld
my husband saved my life
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Aethelfeld
:D
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Aethelfeld
lol he is not royalty he will never win
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Aethelfeld
my killer's gang members are always killing themselves around me
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Aethelfeld
ending up on death row or dying instead of me
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Aethelfeld
they're the only "black" gang there is
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