#indieweb 2025-05-18

2025-05-18 UTC
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github247 hi
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[Schepp] [aaronpk] I have a "polish" ✨ request for http://webmention.io:
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[Schepp] We have published our email address on our podcast page - but obfuscated via HTML entity encoding to safeguard it against SPAM bots. http://webmention.io is also not able to decode it and wants to send the authentication mail to "c%6Fm%6D%65nt%73@work%69%6Eg%64%http://72aft.de" - which obviously doesn't work and so we cannot login with our email address.
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[Schepp] https://workingdraft.de/
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Loqi [preview] [Lippe@mastodon.social] @workingdraft Glückwunsch! Endlich stehen auch die Titel auf der Archivseite! <3
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aaronpk hmm
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aaronpk if webmention.io can decode it, so can the spam bot email scrapers
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[tantek] lol indeed
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[artlung] Strictly speaking that’s not html entity encoding, it’s url encoding. And while it is harder to read for a human being, most browsers will interpret the encoded email url into the correct characters.
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btrem [Schepp]: If you're trying to hide email from spam harvesters, you could try https://github.com/btrem/create-mailto
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Loqi [preview] [btrem] create-mailto: Find email addresses in web pages and turn them into clickable <a href=mailto...> links.
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btrem Advantages: - fairly easy to set up; - works with microformats classes; - email address is viewable (and can be copied) for non-javascript users
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btrem Disadvantages: - it works now because it's not used/done much this way, but if that were to change, it would be ridiculously easy for harvesters to adapt to it; - still prevents non-js users from simply selecting (e.g. clicking) on your email address to email you.
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[Schepp] ↩️ That's what one would think. We run our page since 15 years now and have yet to get spammed.
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[Schepp] I guess it's because bots don't put any effort in scraping email addresses, as they harvest enough of them anyways.
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Loqi friendly reminder btrem, [Schepp], we try to keep jargon (JavaScript, Microformats, scraping) out of this channel to make it more inviting to newcomers, can you move this to #indieweb-dev?
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btrem Ah yes, sorry Loqi.
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btrem [Schepp]: Yes, that's my take, too. So if you're having a hard time using indieauth with your current method, you could try mine.
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btrem I can use indieauth (e.g. to log into the indieweb wiki). But then, I use a rel-me link, so maybe it's not relevant.
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Co-organisers help me make events happen" https://jamesg.blog/2025/05/18/co-organisers-help-me-make-events-happen
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Loqi capjamesg has 79 karma in this channel over the last year (207 in all channels)
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[tantek] capjamesg++ GREAT post ❤️
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capjamesg Thank you!
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[morganm] I made a website today -- https://wsg-facts.netlify.app/