#indieweb 2021-10-20
2021-10-20 UTC
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[timothy_chambe] Hi everyone:
# [timothy_chambe] I wanted to do an update and two requests about the Mastodon instance I created focused on the Indieweb, named indieweb.social. It's been live for well over a year and grew in part out of discussions in this slack group.
# [timothy_chambe] https://joinmastodon.org/communities/tech
# [timothy_chambe] The mission statement for that was to be place where we could evangelize Indieweb tech and ideas to the #Fediverse, as well as engage and see where ideas from that area could gel with IndieWeb and related efforts. This instance was a place to intentionally cross those two streams of Indieweb and Fediverse development and thinking.
# [timothy_chambe] Right now we are about the 6th largest tech focused Instance on the Join Mastodon site:
# [timothy_chambe] We have had 1.2 thousand people create their Mastodon accounts on this instance. Many many more reading content federated out from this site. You can browse those here: https://indieweb.social/explore
# [timothy_chambe] As an instance of users, we've created a lot of Indieweb and related posts there. And we repost "This Week in Inidieweb" to the group as regular posts.
# [timothy_chambe] My first request: is there places in the IndieWeb Wiki that this can be featured? Any placement in the wiki or in any emails would be very appreciated.
# [timothy_chambe] Second Request: we try to encourage folks there to follow any IndieWeb thought leaders that POSSE and syndicate out their accounts to Mastodon.
# [timothy_chambe] Here are the ones we posted on a page I've not updated in some while:
# [timothy_chambe] https://indieweb.social/about/more
# [timothy_chambe] Is anyone here want to be added, or has any recommendations LMK.
# [timothy_chambe] Thanks.
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Loqi Mastodon is an open source social network project that supports some IndieWeb building blocks like microformats2 & rel-me, and has a federation of many instances, including https://indieweb.social/ for IndieWeb fans https://indieweb.org/Mastodon
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[jeremycherfas] [chrisaldrich] My latest newsletter featured an amazing story of 200 pages of a lost 13th century Arabic cookbook being discovered in the British Library in a 15th century book on pharmacology.
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capjamesg[d] I have never used Mastodon. Maybe I should try it?
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[tantek] More on gardening metaphors (not sure how many of these apply to “digital gardens”) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVOMVdQP-7o/
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# [snarfed]1 nekr0z true! Bridgy Fed is nontrivial to set up though
# [snarfed]1 sure it is, you pick an instance and create an account. same basic flow as any silo
# [snarfed]1 I'd like to think so too! but by the numbers, the majority of IndieWeb users don't run their own server. they're on micro.blog, or wordpress.com, or similar
# [snarfed]1 other relevant numbers: Bridgy Fed launched 4y ago but only 111 people (domains) have ever used it. Mastodon support in normal Bridgy has only been around half as long, launched 2y ago, but has 344 users, 3x as many
# [snarfed]1 totally! me too!
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# [timothy_chambe] ↩️ Yes, that's great.
# [timothy_chambe] ↩️ It's a network of about 4 million distributed instances, a lot like Twitter but with rougher edges technically. I've found good tech discussions and it is maybe the most used truly decentralized social effort to date, but that is a small pool. I am intersted in it from ActivityPub standpoint.
# [timothy_chambe] ↩️ I federate to it from Micro.blog who has built a fairly straightforward means to do so for those who blog on their platform.
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petermolnar > conceptually superior approach
# petermolnar it is; it's also a LOT harder to make people understand how to follow your site that way
# petermolnar read: they need a button to click
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[schmarty] ooh that is an interesting topic to add to /Mastodon ! i don't see any IndieWeb examples in there of "follow on Mastodon/ActivityPub" UIs.
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# petermolnar because you're mad, and I admire you for that :D
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@m_older Because of moving and new jobs and so on, I've had to do a lot of paperwork and identification stuff lately, and it keeps bringing me back to Seeing Like a State and how desperately governments try to pin down something as slippery as identity. (twitter.com/_/status/1450474094357532672)
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# capjamesg[d] Can someone send me a Reacji?
# [snarfed]1 capjamesg you can always send yourself one!
# Loqi James writes a blog about coffee and the IndieWeb https://indieweb.org/User:Jamesg.blog
# [snarfed]1 aaronpk don't you have an entire repo for that? or someone?
# [snarfed]1 what a world we live in
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aaronpk 229K downloads o.O https://packagist.org/packages/p3k/emoji-detector
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[KevinMarks] Do you return the plaintext fallback for things like ™ and math letters
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[aciccarello] lol, this is a funny project. It seems odd that they limited posts but not comments. https://minus.social/