#indieweb 2024-09-10

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[mattl]2
Does anyone have a good way to self host photos? I may try and get an old PHP script working for it. Trying to figure out the sitemap for my own website. I don’t like a busy homepage but I think I may have a few more links than I do now and adopt something very basic for photos with tiny thumbnails and then link to a larger image and that links to the original.
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aaronpk
ughhhh don't get me started on photos
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aaronpk
every time i try to scope out what i want to do with photos it explodes into a huge project
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jimw
Yeah, it's easily a project that can go out of control. I think the part that is easy to overthink is how/where store the metadata about the images (alt text, captions, dimensions, whatever).
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[mattl]2
I got banned from Flickr for unknown reasons but I did use their Uploader desktop app so I’m assuming it uploaded something like a meme which triggered something on my account.
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[mattl]2
There was “Gallery” back in the day but no idea what state it’s in.
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jimw
Yeah, I ended up rolling my own system because I wanted to get off Flickr and I was able to not let myself get too out of control with features.
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jimw
I did think of spinning up my own Pixelfed instance for my photos, but that was way more heavyweight than I wanted to deal with.
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[mattl]2
I may just wind up spinning up another WordPress install and using that or just making a category for images and doing some 11ty stuff to make it all work out.
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[mattl]2
What is Wordpress multisite
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "Wordpress multisite" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Wordpress multisite is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[mattl]2
What is multisite
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Loqi
Multi-site Indieweb is a hybrid approach to Indieweb in which a wide range of people have two (or more) indieweb enabled platforms for a multitude of reasons https://indieweb.org/multisite
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[mattl]2
How does one go about suggesting a future IWC? Let’s say I’m planning an event and would like IWC as part of it…
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ryanparsley
Is this a reasonable place to chat about content types? I'm trying to square blog posts, migrated tweets and making some of my atomic notes (like PKM raw materials) public before they get properly refined into something more substantial.
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ryanparsley
PKM shared eagerly as a wiki by one/ digital garden seems just complicated enough to keep me second guessing myself.
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[snarfed]
what's PKM?
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ryanparsley
sorry, personal notes
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ryanparsley
stands for Personal Knowledge Management... obsidan folder of markdown 😄
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ryanparsley
For local writing, I tend to think of atomic notes as little composable thoughts that may or may not get composed into bigger ideas or collected into something. So, "note" has context for me in that way that's more than and at odds with https://indieweb.org/note
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ryanparsley
[edit] For local writing, I tend to think of atomic notes as little composable thoughts that may or may not get composed into bigger ideas or collected into something. So, "note" has context for me in that way that's more than and at odds with https://indieweb.org/note
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ryanparsley
I've been starting to put things like this: https://ryanparsley.com/note/webmentions on my blog and continuing to refer to it as a note. Things get funky when I think about migrating 16 years of tweets into the mix.
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ryanparsley
[edit] I've been starting to put things like this: https://ryanparsley.com/note/webmentions on my blog and continuing to refer to it as a note. Things get funky when I think about migrating 16 years of tweets into the mix.
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Loqi
[preview] [Ryan Parsley] I rather like the idea of a static site blog, but wouldn’t mind enabling conversations to know if any of this resonates with anyone out there. Webmention may be just the thing I need. With this standard, I can see and link to mentions of my content...
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Loqi
[preview] [Ryan Parsley] I rather like the idea of a static site blog, but wouldn’t mind enabling conversations to know if any of this resonates with anyone out there. Webmention may be just the thing I need. With this standard, I can see and link to mentions of my content...
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[mattl]2
I’m curious about this too.
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ryanparsley
status feels like what I want to call my archived tweets intuitively, but I want to play nice with the microformat idioms
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ryanparsley
[edit] "status" feels like what I want to call my archived tweets intuitively, but I want to play nice with the microformat idioms
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ryanparsley
If you squint and look at the activity stream definition
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ryanparsley
> A status is similar in structure to a note, but carries the additional meaning that the content is primarily describing something its author is doing, feeling or experiencing.
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ryanparsley
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ryanparsley
You could say the nonsense I used to post on twitter had additional context of how I was doing or feeling. IDK, probably overthinking this and should simply proceed with status
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ryanparsley
All the posts I've seen feel up to interpretation and I suspect I found myself square in a narcissism of minor differences pit.
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ryanparsley
would love to hear I'm wrong or misreading something if that's the case.
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[tantek]
notes are good enough
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[tantek]
The whole status thing is a legacy Twitter Facebook term
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[tantek]
They're just shorter notes in practice
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ryanparsley
yeah, it feels old fashioned 😄
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[tantek]
[mattl] re organizing an IWC, let's take that to #indieweb-meta
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ryanparsley
what do you think about the need I feel to disambiguate from unstructured ramblings of a microblog and unstructured chunks of words that I want to do more with?
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ryanparsley
just tag them?
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ryanparsley
be less precious about articles?
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ryanparsley
meaning, move what I call notes like the above link out of notes
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[jacky]
I might be dating myself but I def think of AIM status messages as the OG notes
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[mattl]2
And really .plan files are just an older version of that
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[mattl]2
What is .plan
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for ".plan" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say ".plan is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[mattl]2
What is plan
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "plan" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "plan is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[mattl]2
.plan is a file on a Unix machine that shows personal notes and status. Users can use the finger command to see the .plan of a remote user.
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ryanparsley
Neat, .plan is new to me
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[mattl]2
John Carmack used his .plan during the development of many games
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[jacky]
I knew that name was familiar
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[jacky]
From DOOM to AGI
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[jacky]
tbh it makes sense, DOOM runs everywhere; AGI would want to as well 😆
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[mattl]2
What is doom
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "doom" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "doom is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[mattl]2
Doom is a video game made on NeXTSTEP by iD Software.
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[mattl]2
What is NeXTSTEP
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "NeXTSTEP" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "NeXTSTEP is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[mattl]2
What is nextstep
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "nextstep" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "nextstep is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[mattl]2
What is nextstep
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[tantek]
I think we really need to have Loqi fallback to Wikipeda
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[tantek]
Creating all these generic definition stubs is not really helping anybody
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ryanparsley
I think an answer was staring at me as I awkwardly avoided eye contact. In the PKM parlance, an "atomic note" would be a "stub".
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capjamesg[d]
"We are unable to make cohost open source. the source code for cohost was the collateral used for the loan from our funder."
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[snarfed]
oh interesting! thanks! guess there was a loan on top of their investment then
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[mattl]2
is the founder going to start another site with it? I didn’t use cohost much but was there something it did really well on a technical level that someone might extract and sell?
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[tantek]
My understanding was the "did really well" part was all community. Technically and feature wise I keep reading lots of descriptions of disappointments. There's probably some lessons in there
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[tantek]
Like it's great to be remembered and missed and all, but maybe that shouldn't be as high a priority as technical sustainability?
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[tantek]
Anyone here actually use cohost and have screenshots?
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[mattl]2
I have an account and can take some
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[tantek]
That would be great. One of things we can do is help preserve the UI examples/learnings of prior work, whether OSS or proprietary, to use as references or ideas.
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clementcomposer
It was fun to mess around with in-post CSS, and see other people's 'CSS crimes'
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clementcomposer
Micro.blog crossposting defaults to just the post title and a link--can I set it to include the whole post, or a preview?
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[tantek]
what happens when you omit the title?
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clementcomposer
[tantek]: Worked like a charm =)
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[tantek]
woohoo! microdotblog++
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Loqi
microdotblog has 1 karma over the last year
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[tantek]
microblog++
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Loqi
microblog has 1 karma over the last year
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Loqi
yay!
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[0x3b0b]
Oh right, I think I remember that coming up before. I keep forgetting that because both my accounts are on instances that show the whole post anyway.
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gRegor
Yeah, notes on micro.blog under 300 characters have no link. Over that and they're truncated + link. Articles show the title + link.
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