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[Michael_Kupiet] Question. I'm looking at syndicating some posts out to indienews. However, I do a lot of small posts and updates—for instance, sometimes up to 4 or 5 movie reviews a night—and I don't want to spam the feed with every last bit of my activity. How do people handle that? How do you decide what to ping indienews with, and on a technical level—particularly for anyone on wordpres—what are you doing to distinguish between "this is
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[Michael_Kupiet] indienews should get a ping on" and "this shouldn
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[Michael_Kupiet] DAMN WHOEVER DESIGNED THE TYPEWRITER KEYBOARD TO HAVE THE APOSTROPHE RIGHT NEXT TO THE RETURN KEY
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[KevinMarks] Indienews is mainly for Indieweb related posts, not a general aggregator for posts on the indieweb
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[Michael_Kupiet] Anyway, as I was saying, what are you doing to distinguish between "this is a post indienews should get a ping on" and "this shouldn't ping indienews", on a technical level? I'm thinking about just writing a plugin that gives me a checkbox on each post whether to include the u-syndication link, but curious how other
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[Michael_Kupiet] people handle it
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[Michael_Kupiet] Ah, ok, that's important info, thanks
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[KevinMarks] so if you'd post it to #indieweb then ping indienews; if it more #indieweb-random or #indieweb-cafe then don't
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[Michael_Kupiet] Gotcha. But it makes the question of what technique people are using to tell their CMS/website to do or do not ping indienews on a given post
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[Michael_Kupiet] even more important
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[Michael_Kupiet] KevinMarks++
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[artlung] I have a WP code snippet that augments my tag display: when I include the tag Indienews it includes the relevant syndication code. That’s on my custom theme. I don't automate notifying the indienews endpoint though.
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[artlung] I also can syndicate the posts of others as in here https://artlung.com/indienews/
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[Michael_Kupiet] [artlung] ++ thanks. Ok, that's similar lines to what I was thinking of.
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gRegor what is fyp
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Loqi TikTok is a video sharing app where users create and share short videos, often set to music https://indieweb.org/FYP
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gRegor capjamesg, do you prefer "capjamesg" for headings in example sections or "James G" or something else?
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[capjamesg] capjamesg generally!
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[capjamesg] You can use {{capjamesg}} too.
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[capjamesg] But you might say “On his site, James…“, etc. in prose.
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gRegor Ok! Thought that might be the case since your chat name had that but wanted to double check
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gRegor I usually don't use the chat name in the heading, since it also makes them links. Just feels off to me somehow.
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gRegor I think it's probably that I think of a heading that's a link as an anchor to that section, not an external link
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[capjamesg] Makes sense.
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[artlung] [capjamesg]++ for hosting and wiki gardening
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[Michael_Kupiet] It took me forever to remember there's no 'n' in capjamesg. IE not capnjamesg.
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gRegor haha
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[capjamesg] 😂
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[capjamesg] I am learning to embrace “cap’n” as a greeting 😄
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[tantek] IMO embedded links in headings (e.g. if you use a personal sparkline in a heading) are confusing and distracting. I don't think headings should have links unless to fragment links to themselves for convenience of a link to copy & paste
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gRegor oh cap'n, my cap'n
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[capjamesg] 🫡
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