#indieweb 2021-10-14
2021-10-14 UTC
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prologic Hey y'all lovely folk 👋
# prologic Does anyone have any great ideas for how to build a "Share via xxx" button or even interact with your self-hosted instance of a thing from some other website?
# prologic Context: https://twtxt.net/twt/gmwqw7q
# prologic I've been thinking about this for a while, and I think I'm too dumb to come up with a solution that works in a decentralised platform like this 🤣
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[schmarty] What are webactions?
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Loqi A web action is the interface and user experience of taking a specific discrete action, across the web, from one site to another site or application https://indieweb.org/webactions
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# prologic Ahh awesome!
# prologic There's a spec for this
# prologic I'll go read up on that and get back to you if I have any questions
# prologic Thanks! 🙇♂️
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# Potato Greetings folks
# Potato Thinking about joining the indieweb community, but kinda unsure how the end result look slike
# Potato anyone willing to show off their own?
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KartikPrabhu www.kartikprabhu.com
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Murray[d] Hey Potato, the Wiki has a lot of good information on people's projects/sites. The chat names list is a good place to scan around and find out some of that info: https://indieweb.org/chat-names
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capjamesg[d] Welcome!
# capjamesg[d] Feel free to ask any questions Potato!
# capjamesg[d] My domain is jamesg.blog 🙂
# Potato what you've been up to ,or read your blog or whatnot?
# Potato I'm not sure I understand how it really works :P I've seen kartik's website, as well as few others, including Jamesg blog, and from what I gather instead of using social media ,or website builders like squarespace or just making your website the regular way, you go for non-seo version of a website that isn't published anywhere else and doesn't go through search engines, but instead you can share your web adress to someone and they can see
# Potato Jamesg is a blog, I mean it doesn't seem that much different of topic-based blogs, a lovely one if i might add, about a person interested in coffee and their adventures.
# Potato While kartikprabhnu's seems more like a chatlog of stuff he's posted at different websites, open for people who follow him to read, like a history sort of.
# capjamesg[d] Yay! Thanks 😉
# capjamesg[d] We believe that you should own the content you produce online.
# capjamesg[d] Whether you build a site with code or use a site generator.
# Potato Yes, but - owning the content you produce online - doesn't explain me what it does :D
# capjamesg[d] Owning your content means that you control how it is represented. So you can make your own design / choose how to display things
# Potato https://christinahendricks.ca for example this lady is included on indieweb org, and it seems like a genuine portfolio that one would make in sense of business card
# Potato But isn't that what a web-developer with some knowledge would do?
# capjamesg[d] In the case of my blog, I show some coffee posts. But I also share content I have liked on the web.
# Potato So the difference is that instead of hosting it on some web-service you host it on your own self-made server on PC?
# capjamesg[d] You can make your site do / show / look how you want. Some people just have home pages. But they have made them and usually have them on their own domain.
# capjamesg[d] Whereas with Twitter they control the design of all of your content, how it is showed, etc.
# capjamesg[d] You can host your content on third party services. Many people here use WordPress, for example.
# capjamesg[d] What is getting started?
# Loqi Get started on the indieweb by connecting with the indiewebcamp community, getting a personal domain, a place for your content, and setting up your home page and other indieweb essentials https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started
# Potato Ah you mean in their own font/on their website, to be used for promotion of their adds on the side and stuff?
# capjamesg[d] You can do anything, yep! Use your own fonts, add custom widgets, create your own color scheme, etc.
# capjamesg[d] On your own site you have control whether to display ads.
# capjamesg[d] You can make some content private if you want so only certain people can see it.
# Potato I meant that's what twitter does, or rather why it's beneficial for twitter to exist.
# Potato Hmm, ok makes sense.
# capjamesg[d] Indeed. But on Twitter there are ads, character limits, and you don’t really own what you make.
# Potato But how is it different from me just making my own website, hosting it privately, giving the link to people in comparison to being part of this community?
# capjamesg[d] That’s IndieWeb 🙂
# capjamesg[d] If you make your own site you are part of our community 🙂
# capjamesg[d] There are optional standards you can add to your blog that we developed in the community.
# Potato I have a few, but it's first time I've heard about the community
# capjamesg[d] Like webmention, a way to post comments on other peoples sites that you own.
# Potato Ah, so there are benefits to it besides this chat
# capjamesg[d] So all of the likes on my blog are actually from Instagram.
# capjamesg[d] I used a tool called brid.gy to add them to my site.
# capjamesg[d] Which was developed by snarfed, who is often in this chat 🙂
# capjamesg[d] Yep! This chat is more of a social space / a place to chat with people.
# Potato Hmm, I'll have to think about what to do. Atm i'm planning to start my digital garden, but i have over 36000 notes on PC that i need to somehow manage and put in form of coherent thoughts then upload somewhere.
# Potato I've been reading about mind mapping and digital gardening hence I've bumped into this community.
# Potato I'm fairly young, so this seemed something hippie-like, where people smoke weed and often say - corporations bro it's all their fault -
# Potato But by quick browse, there seems to be an abundance of talented people doing their own thing.
# Potato Surprisingly tho, so many physicists
# Potato there must be a reason why :D
# capjamesg[d] We have a few people with digital gardens in the community.
# capjamesg[d] What is a digital garden?
# Loqi A commonplace book (or commonplaces) are a way to compile and store knowledge, usually by writing information into books, notebooks, card catalogs, or in more modern settings on one's own website https://indieweb.org/digital_garden
# Potato eh, it seems i'll have to expand my server then, atm the bandwidth that i have combined with its processing power is insufficient to anything extra
# Potato well, thanks for feedback and info :D
# Potato all the best to you!
# Potato Cheers
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[KevinMarks] interesting about blocklists https://blog.blockpartyapp.com/p/blocklists-design
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# doosboox Potato: what kind of server do you have, and how much bandwidth?
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