#dev 2022-12-22
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[Fresno] hi , peeps, I'm new in here, trying to figure out what type of website is my home website u____u can someone please direct me to a link where I can read about that? I don't even know how to search for what I want cause I don't know how to keyword it
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[Fresno] like... where / how do I input the text so that the syndication programs feed the social media platforms?
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[Fresno] Does my home site have to be a blog of some sort? What got me confused was that I thought Wordpress was gonna be installed on my home site. And even though I could, I don't (and would love to) understand what are the characteristics my home site should have to work as such.
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barnaby https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started has an introduction to the main ideas
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[Fresno] let's start from the beggining
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[Fresno] > posts marked up with h-entry microformats
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[Fresno] do I have to do that mannually or can I use a premade and community-mantained engine?
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[chrisaldrich] [Fresno] almost any sort of WordPress site should be able to syndicate content like that. There are dozens of plug-ins and methods for doing it, some better/easier than others. You'll find more help and specifics in the #indieweb-wordpress channel.
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[chrisaldrich] For WordPress most of that markup is done in the thteme.
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barnaby https://indieweb.org/projects has a good overview, and if you have specific requirements (e.g. language) we can give recommendations
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[Fresno] thank you so much!
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[chrisaldrich] And yes, there are obviously lots of other projects and languages one could use aside from WordPress that support the various building blocks.
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[Fresno] I cannot believe the goldmine this community has become
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[Fresno] please forgive me if I'm saying something silly but... is ATOM:feed something like Known ?
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gRegor I don't have a Venmo account to test with, does the amount query string still work? https://indieweb.org/Venmo#Documentation
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@cagrimmett Something I need to look into: How to automate posting starred posts from my feed reader as webmention-style likes on my website. Probably a WP cron job that fetches starred posts from Feedbin's api, loops through them, marks them up appropriately, and publishes them. (twitter.com/_/status/1605758422758162434)
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IWDiscordRelay <capjamesg#4492> [tantek] Following up re: whether seasonal.js is gift calendar worthy 🙂
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jamietanna some good chat re the unfollowing stuff! Yeah in this case, there's someone I want to silently unfollow in Bridgy Fed, but that I still subscribe to through a different feed, but as I've got a very public blogroll, I want to avoid any potential drama :)
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lqdev[m] I member the days of Top 8 on MySpace. That's what we really need to bring back 😂
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[snarfed]2 this is really useful for evolving how we think about how/whether to post follows…and that directly affects how we build services like Bridgy Fed that need some UX for users to follow/unfollow
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[snarfed]2 maybe we go in a more proprietary direction for those
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@JohnL4 https://bit.ly/3WADDSv
Test post. Is this https://brid.gy thing on? (twitter.com/_/status/1605995385482264601)
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[snarfed]2 definitely a nice model for private/protected sharing!
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[snarfed]2 so are we converging on the idea that following is more of an internal UX in readers and other tools, and not so much a protocol-level interaction that we want to encourage in mf2 and standards-based interop
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[snarfed]2 sure, just meant in this one chat, not conclusively in practice just yet
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aaronpk interestingly the two reasons under "why" have nothing to do with feed readers https://indieweb.org/follow#Why
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[snarfed]2 that’s good and makes sense, since follow posts have so far been entirely separate from readers
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[fluffy] I wasn’t aware of the Dopplr model but that’s pretty much how follower/permissions groups work in Publ: if you notice someone logging in who you want to give access to stuff (or if they specifically request via some out-of-bound mechanism), the site author can add them to a permissions group.
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[snarfed]2 oh interesting! I just meant a BF follow UI. BF already serves feeds in various formats, is there a use case for some other API between readers and BF?
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[snarfed]2 like, if you try to follow a fediverse user, and your reader knows you use BF, it forwards that follow to BF to handle?