[Sam_Butler]ash[m] and tantek, I'm also interested in the conversation about making it easier for people to set-up their own websites (and presumably, positioned for POSSE) and reducing the hassles in setup. Are there any active projects aiming to do this? Like, taking an outcome of — a person has their own domain and is able to enjoy POSSEing and is equipped to maintain the setup <--- and abstracting the hassles in that process, to make it
[snarfed]fully indieweb compatible, cross posting built in, and crucially, handles domain registration and DNS automatically, which is historically one of the key stumbling blocks that made setting up a domain and web site much harder than eg picking a username on Twitter
aaronpkThis is borderline #indieweb-dev but do we have a page that lists out the various options for setting up ActivityPub/fediverse using your own domain so you don't have to pick an existing mastodon server to join?
barnaby(at the risk of provoking loqis wrath) all it’d take for Simon to make his existing blog AP-followable would be some mf2 markup and webmention sending
[snarfed]For new sites, micro.blog is definitely great, and others that build it in. Existing personal sites that want to keep their recurring site are harder
[snarfed]Single user instance on subdomain is less discoverable, since it's a different domain. DIY is obviously limiting. I don't know that I can ever make Bridgy Fed very accessible
barnabystrictly speakign webmention “works” regardless of the content type. whether or not the software you’re sending webmentions to will parse ATOM is another matter. I don’t know of any implementations which do so
[tantek]Aaronpk, re such documentation, it’s borderline user/dev but maybe the existing AP page would be an option or perhaps the /Mastodon page? It depends on how people are searching for it (what it is)
barnabyaaronpk (or other people who use ≥day-accurate datetimes in their post URLs): what timezone do you use for the datetime in the post URLs? have you ever run into weid timezone issues? do your URLs still work if you changed the server timezone?
aaronpkit creates interesting side effects when i travel across the date line, since some day permalinks will have essentially two days of content on them
barnabybut (and this is getting a little more into -dev territory) I’m trying to figure out what that means for how I store and query posts based on datetime internally
[tantek]At some point I decided having my posts be in my “home” timezone was good enough. Yes including DST changes. I have a habit of NOT changing the tz in my laptop when I travel
barnaby[tantek]: I’ve lived in three different timezones since I started my site, so if I’m moving to DT-based URL design I want to make sure I can do so again in the future without all my URLs breaking!
[timothy_chambe] Eugen just updated that over 70,000 new users across all Mastodon servers today
[jgmac1106] Morning all
aaronpk This thought was brought to you by this tweet https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1586460696417431552?s=46&t=bQIMkOfajUpV0OwjV1OCkg
@simonw @DaanDebie I'm eyeing it up - haven't set up there yet. I'm nervous about picking a host there which I can be confident will be around for the long run. I'm following @jacobian and @andrewgodwin's efforts there with interest https://twitter.com/andrewgodwin/status/1585685746861559808 (twitter.com/_/status/1586460696417431552)
barnaby ah it was https://docs.microblog.pub/
[KevinMarks] Cory wants laws to force Facebook to cooperate with bridgy https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-leave-dying-social-media-platforms-9fc550fe5abf