#indieweb 2022-01-06
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[chrisaldrich] Is it possible to make the people/sites one's social reader is following public? I don't think I've seen any microsub-based readers offer this functionality? I haven't seen as much parity in the older ways of doing this with potentially newer building blocks (See: /lost_infrastructure)
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[snarfed] I've done that manually for a while now, export my reader's feeds as OPML and then translate that into a page: https://snarfed.org/feeds
# [snarfed] also https://snarfed.org/podcasts . haven't updated them in a couple years though, adding that to my todo list now
# [chrisaldrich] A interesting string of reads for the new year: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-screens-apps-smartphones-social-media, with a response by Colin http://cdevroe.com/2022/01/05/bye-social-media/, followed by https://pimoore.ca/2022/01/05/on-quitting-social.html. Anyone else making these sorts of new year's "resolutions"?
# [chrisaldrich] What is a digital detox?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "digital detox" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "digital detox is ____", a sentence describing the term)
# [chrisaldrich] 🤔 I'll just leave this here as I know Middlebury have put out some good material on the subject before (They're also an early adopter of A Domain of One's Own) and it's worth looking at how they're approaching the topic: https://dlinq.middcreate.net/digitaldetox/
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# zerojames[d] [chrisaldrich] I was thinking about using Microsub to make it automatically. All of my feeds are in microsub and are one query away from being rendered on a page.
# zerojames[d] That's the way my planet works too.
# zerojames[d] https://planet.jamesg.blog
# zerojames[d] The planet makes a Microsub request to my server and gets all posts in the IndieWeb channel.
# zerojames[d] Tom Critchlow has a similar experiment where he shows articles published by feeds he follows on his site.
# zerojames[d] For technical details, let's resume the discussion in #dev.
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# Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "blog roll" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "blog roll is ____", a sentence describing the term)
# Loqi A blogroll is a list of other sites that you read, are a follower of, or recommend https://indieweb.org/blogroll
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jeremycherfas Other way round.
# jeremycherfas I diodn'
# jeremycherfas I didn't think it right to do it for you.
# zerojames[d] What is a blog roll?
# Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "blog roll" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "blog roll is ____", a sentence describing the term)
# zerojames[d] << lets you append something to a document.
# zerojames[d] Ah! A reset in username resets karma! Oh dear...
# zerojames[d] I'll have to change my username back...
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capjamesg[d] Yay 🎉
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petermolnar remember I've been looking for the successor of FrontPage? Well, https://www.silex.me/ is a very nice candidate.
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# [snarfed] inspired by #indieweb-chat, https://hypertext.monster/2021/07/17/no-social-media.html is entertaining. not at all about owning your content online or the indieweb spirit, despite the title
# [snarfed] reminds me a bit of https://snarfed.org/2018-09-04_i-dont-hang-out-on-the-internet
# [chrisaldrich] snarfed++ ha! I was coming to chat just now to post that very same article from July! 😂
# [chrisaldrich] But I'm guessing you just broke the first two rules of No Social Media Club...
# capjamesg[d] Really haha?
# capjamesg[d] Where can I buy one!
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# [chrisaldrich] wants one too
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# capjamesg[d] Yes!
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@doctorow It's been twenty years, to the day, since I published my first blog-post. I'm a blogger. Blogging - publicly breaking down the things that seem significant, then synthesizing them in longer pieces - is the defining activity of my days. https://boingboing.net/2001/01/13/hey-mark-made-me-a.html 1/ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Erly-LsVEAIsGOm.jpg (twitter.com/_/status/1349348952433258497)
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[jacky] https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1349348952433258497 a thread about how he goes about curating his site
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# [schmarty]1 went ahead and scrolled to the end to find the copy he posts to his personal site: https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/13/two-decades/#hfbd
# capjamesg[d] Do many people syndicate their notes to Mastodon?
# capjamesg[d] I could only see one example on /Mastodon.
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[aciccarello] capjamesg bridgy-fed makes it so mastodon users can follow you right? Would that be better than syndication?
# [aciccarello] That makes sense.
# capjamesg[d] Oh brid.gy fed might do just what I want. It looks like I have another project to work on do
# capjamesg[d] *work on 🙂
# [schmarty]1 jacky: i just got excited because i knew that link would be in there somewhere, haha
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# capjamesg[d] Can you elaborate more? What is the difference between federating and syndicating?
# [aciccarello] With federating, people follow your site. With syndicating you post a copy to a separate account
# [aciccarello] At least that's the way I think about it.
# capjamesg[d] In that case, I think federating would be more appropriate.
# capjamesg[d] (For me)
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@MindaHarts One of my brothers was telling me that he is ready to build his website and branding--and was a little frustrated because his domain name was taken. I said I own it, I knew one day you would want to use it and I wanted to make sure it was available when you did. https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/FIcINckUcAQU-9m.jpg (twitter.com/_/status/1479160035414446087)
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# [chrisaldrich] Hard to follow the joy of that post Kevin, but I just found the greatest domain name for an online personal knowledge management site: https://www.tinybrain.fans/
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aaronpk i think you snuck in just past the 5 minute mark ;-) https://loqi.me/jargon/
# [chrisaldrich] Cory Doctorow's 20 Year Anniversary post has some great reasons on why he keeps an archive and has a personal site (hint, he uses it like a digital commonplace book) and has a nice call out to /POSSE.
# [chrisaldrich] He didn't link it but used the phrase and wrote out the acronym
# [chrisaldrich] It's also a paean to manual until it hurts.
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# [tw2113_Slack_] i find it slightly ironic that Corey talked about blogging for 20 years in a tweet thread
# [chrisaldrich] I find it surprising that he deals with the manual cruft of copypasta of syndicating to Twitter that way every day and that he does it via XML!!!