#indieweb 2023-03-31

2023-03-31 UTC
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shreyanjain[m] <[snarfed]> "lots of IndieWeb representation..." <- The more IndieWeb the better!
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shreyanjain[m] How's the scene looking for IndieWeb and BlueSky?
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[snarfed] Good! https://staging.bsky.app/
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[manton] I like what Bluesky is doing but (my 2 cents) they need to ship. I’m holding the work I did until Bluesky is public. They may have missed the window.
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[schmarty] [manton]: what was the "window"?
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[snarfed] in the words of Kevin Kelly, "You are not late" 😁 https://medium.com/message/you-are-not-late-b3d76f963142
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[manton] [schmarty] Ideally sometime between before Elon took over Twitter and now? 🙂
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[manton] [snarfed] Fair point.
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[manton] Counterpoint to my own argument is that I thought I was “late” to blogging when I started in 2002.
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[tantek] ^ [manton] had no ideas and had the same thought when I started in 2002 😂
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[tantek] no idea*
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[manton] Yep, I laugh whenever I re-read my first post: https://www.manton.org/2002/03/09/sxsw-interactive-started.html
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[manton] The idea that were “enough” blogs in 2002 is hilarious now.
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[tantek] [manton] do you have any form of sequential navigation (or in the plans)? would be interesting to read subsequent blog posts
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[manton] [tantek] Not in this theme I’m using, although other Micro.blog themes do have previous/next links… This would be a good use for it.
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[manton] To be honest I’m not proud of some of my very early posts that come off as too negative / judgmental. I realize now I was caught up in the kind of “I’ve got a platform with opinions and everything sucks!” mentality that is common in social media.
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[tantek] Blogs used to be more ranty, it was a cultural thing at the time. Then blogs became more brandy & marketingy.
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[tantek] And yes social media very much tapped into amplifying rants into rage and more
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[tantek] Some of my early posts are also more negative or judgy than I prefer to be
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benpate[m] @manton - I recognize a lot of that in myself too. I think it’s also about getting older and having more experience. It can have a mellowing effect on our first passions.
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[tantek] Growing more empathy and also deciding to prioritize more explicitly on spending time writing more positive than negative things.
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billbennettnz I have Bridgy doing a nice job connecting my Mastodon account and my Ghost site. Can I weave my micro.blog account into this magic? It's not obvious how to do this.
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[snarfed] billbennettnz what specifically do you want to happen?
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[snarfed] micro.blog already supports webmentions and AP (ie Mastodon integration) natively, so it shouldn't need Bridgy for anything there
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billbennettnz Yes... I was getting suddenly enthusiastic about Bridgy connecting Mastodon, that I forgot Micro.blog already links out...
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aaronpk I feel bad that I'm doing this to Bridgy 😅 https://aaronparecki.com/2023/03/31/63/
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Loqi [preview] [Aaron Parecki] Want to find all the bots on Twitter? Watch this: My IG account was hacked, can someone help me recover it? cc @instagram
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[snarfed] hah funny
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[tantek] wow