#indieweb 2021-03-22

2021-03-22 UTC
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sknebel http://bangbangcon.com/give-a-talk.html <- bangbangcon could be a good oppertunity for someone to spread some personal homepage enthuiasm
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[chrisaldrich] There's apparently a silo for everything: https://syllabit.com/
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Loqi [indienews/ru] New post: "Русскоязычный онлайн-HWC" https://evgenykuznetsov.org/events/2021/hwc-online/
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[chrisaldrich] Imagine building a digital garden using this method: https://overland.org.au/media/writing/
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neshpion digital garden? i have minecraft for that
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doosboox [chrisaldrich]: I don’t know if I love or hate the idea :D
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[tantek] anyone seen Linktree alternatives? https://twitter.com/getmailscript/status/1374068017575776257
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@getmailscript @t have you seen people making Indieweb sites as an alternative to Linktree? (twitter.com/_/status/1374068017575776257)
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aaronpk what is Linktree?
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Loqi Linktree is a site for publishing a flat list of links at a short vanity path (like Twitter and other social media silos) for what appears to be for the sole purpose of seeming to provide multiple links from social media profiles like Instagram which only allow one clickable link in your profile https://indieweb.org/Linktree
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aaronpk ah yes
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aaronpk i have a page like that
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aaronpk i made it the URL on my business card NFC tag
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aaronpk which has sadly not had much opportunity for use in the wild
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[jeremyfelt] WordPress.com has a pretty straight forward how-to for creating something similar to Linktree https://wordpress.com/blog/2021/01/25/building-single-page-websites-on-wordpress-com/
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[jeremyfelt] The Blank Canvas theme that makes it so easy can be used on self-hosted WordPress too https://wordpress.com/theme/blank-canvas
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[tw2113_Slack_] [chrisaldrich] that feels like it would be difficult to manage but at the same time it’s just links
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[tantek] kinda curious if anyone has used the brandname recognition of Linktree to their advantage for such links e.g. rather than a linktr.ee/example.com do example.com/linktree as a redirect and then use that link in "social media profiles" just because people have been taught to click on something that is called a linktree
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[tantek] also someone should register that linktree / example.com 😂
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[tantek] captured in Brainstorming: https://indieweb.org/Linktree#linktree_page
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sebsel It is just a page with links, right? Isn't any homepage with links, linked from a social media page, a linktree alternative then?
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aaronpk I think it's about the specific presentation of the links too
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aaronpk I wouldn't call my home page a linktree equivalent for example, even tho it has many of the links I'd put on a link tree
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[chrisaldrich] As prior art many people used to have a "business card" website with just the basics for contacting them (usually for just IRL or even their personal website and not specific to social silos). Later in a social media world, there was about.me (an AOL product family product, iirc) that served essentially that same purpose.
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[chrisaldrich] What is a business card?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "business card" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "business card is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[chrisaldrich] What is a business card page?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "business card page" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "business card page is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[chrisaldrich] Alan Levine (aka cogdog) has a Linktree or about.me like (expanded) page with social media links https://cogdog.info/ (which isn't his "main site" https://cogdogblog.com/). Often in the Domains space the first thing he helps people do is create a calling card page to put on their root domain, usually using https://html5up.net/ (details: https://extend-bank.ecampusontario.ca/assignments/self-contained-site/) or alternately with WordPress:
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[chrisaldrich] https://extend-bank.ecampusontario.ca/assignments/wordpress-calling-card/
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[chrisaldrich] What is a landing page?
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Loqi Your homepage represents you on the web, typically at the top of your domain, with your name and an iconic representation, often marked up with h-card, and fairly commonly one or more streams of recent, topical, or most relevant posts marked up with h-entry https://indieweb.org/landing_page
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[KevinMarks] Seems like a natural expansion of the github.io starter project
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[chrisaldrich] It's a very similar thing and could probably be used almost the same way via github.
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[tantek] what is a starter project
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "starter project" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "starter project is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] I'd discourage use of your homepage as your linktree tbh, it's too constraining.
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[tantek] aaronpk is right, it's about the specific (greatly simplified) presentation of a *handful* of links without a whole bunch of extra hoohaw (American term for unnecessary stuff) cluttering it up
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[tantek] kind of the same motivation of the folks who "just want the recipe, not the whole story of your family lineage etc.)
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[tantek] funny thing about a "linktree" is that rarely have I seen an actual *tree* of links, it's nearly always just a flat stack
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jacky I think it's a brand's name that stuck around
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jacky like how Google is the Web term for 'search'
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jacky b/c I remember seeing things like 'link rings'
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jacky or something similar
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[tantek] lol so we just need a more clever name to come up with an indieweb replacement
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[tantek] "ownyourlinks" (or maybe that's just the page about it)
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jacky yeah
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[KevinMarks] Ownyour.link is available
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[KevinMarks] Also linkylinky.link which is more fun
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[tantek] lol how much are .link s?
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[KevinMarks] Just bought thta for $6
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[KevinMarks] $13 to renew
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KartikPrabhu what is linktree?
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Loqi Linktree is a site for publishing a flat list of links at a short vanity path (like Twitter and other social media silos) for what appears to be for the sole purpose of seeming to provide multiple links from social media profiles like Instagram which only allow one clickable link in your profile https://indieweb.org/Linktree
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