#indieweb 2025-10-11

2025-10-11 UTC
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[snarfed] people here know foursquare/swarm, right? I don't. are they still alive? if not, should I close https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/327 ?
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aaronpk I still use it daily!
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aaronpk But I don't have any desire to post likes to swarm from my website
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[social] There are a few of us here that still post to it daily.
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[social] Since Swarm is a closed friend / connection network I think posting likes from outside of the service could be problematic.
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[morganm] I wanted to share an article thats in draft form, actively receiving feedback, currently on my website: https://www.morganwebdev.org/posts/simple-accessibility-tooling/
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[tantek] [social] it so not problematic as long as you don't leak any friends-only information. The permalinks to Swarm check-ins are login-gated so that's fine.
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[tantek] [snarfed] I believe there is still enough of a Foursquare API at a "free" level that this should be possible if there is sufficient interest.
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[tantek] If I’m the only one interested, feel free to mark postpone for a year or whatever to gather more data. Or if you're trying to clean up stale issues then we can link to the issue as a "want" to the Swarm page in terms of IndieWeb support and you can close the issue as insufficient user interest.
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[snarfed] thanks! just curious
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[social] [tantek] Would the person favoriting have anything on their site showing what and whom they favorited? I know the person in Swarm would only see it and others they are connected to. If nothing is exposed one the person favoriting’s site that is fine.
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[social] The public, private, semi-private bounds get tricky when it comes to breaking the boundaries. It is a problem that Google+ ran into and caused a lot of issues because groups were only semi-private, but you had no idea who was in or out of a group.
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[social] But, if you are publishing your own Swarm check-ins on your own site that would work.
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[tantek] Re "would the person favoriting have..." that's a larger question around what should or should you not display in a reply context on your site, especially if the the audience of the the thing you're replying to is different from the audience of your post
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[tantek] Google+ was weird about audience boundaries in different ways, though yes it resulted in similar violated expectations
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[tantek] Worse than Google+ was when Buzz used your Gmail sent/received emails to seed your Buzz following/followers and it really screwed things up for lots of folks
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