Inspired by @schmartyโs #IndieWebSummit keynote, Iโve just hacked together a pair of iOS Shortcuts that will take URLs from Tweetbot, post them to my site as a Like or Repost, then syndicate back to Twitter automatically ๐
Reposting: Andy Bell on Twitter
โHey pals ๐,
Medium appears to be rightly getting a day of bad press and you might be thinking about publishing your writing elsewhere.
Iโve got your back. I made https://t.co/zbTnt2ji0O, so you can have a self-published blog with a CMS in under 5 mins.โ
Ermah gerd! Durbah!
Iโve been up since 5:30am, so Iโve been taking the time while everyone is still in bed to catch up on the #indiewebsummit keynotes. Great job by all involved! Iโd love to listen to expanded versions of each of the presentations sometime ๐
This is really cool, and could be a great Discovery tool. Iโve had an idea kicking around my head for something similar; a directory of sorts, where sites opt-in via webmention. Any p-category tags in the webmention post would be used to classify the listing in the directory, allowing people to find sites by groupings. Add in some sort of Technorati-style search for an extra layer of power.
Iโm teaching myself Laravel at the momentโฆ this would make a good first project to prototype, I think.
I canโt follow along live myself, but itโs good to know Iโll be able to watch it back on Twitch later this week. (Iโll swap to a more permanent URI once the video is available elsewhere)
Iโm looking forward to reading all of the write-ups!
โIโve been working on a series of walkthrough posts that outline how to IndieWebify a Wordpress site. I presumed the initial setup would be fairly straightforward because a) I have a vague idea of what Iโm doing, and b) a suite of plugins already exists. Boy-howdy, was I wrong. (เฒฅ๏นเฒฅ)
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I definitely agree with you, Eli! I was wondering out loud with a half-baked thought just yesterday about how we could help ease newer โgenerationsโ into the IndieWeb. Where you are coming from the technical side of things, I was thinking more about the on-boarding process and not expecting people to read swathes of documentation to get started. Having read your post I realise both need to be worked on (in tandem?)
I couldnโt hand over even a working WordPress + IndieWeb installation to my partner and expect her to have a good time using it. Iโm trying to bring her round to the idea of moving to her own site, because sheโs so frustrated with the social media giants, but the tools just arenโt accessible to her level yet.
What has been built so far in the IndieWeb is amazing. Iโve not been this enthused about having my own website โ or what itโs capable of โ in years. But Iโve been building on the web for 20+ years; Iโm impressed by the technology because of my understanding of it, and Iโm the sort of user who can work past the rough edges when I need to โ in fact, part of me enjoys the tinkering aspect. On reflection, I might be the worst person to be evaluating how this stuff can be made more usable and accessible for someone who wants it to โjust workโ as smoothly as the existing options ๐
So I guess the question then becomes โ who is best placed to help with this, and how do we bring them on board (if theyโre not already)?
โI read quite a bit of material online. I save โbookmarksโ of all of it on my personal website, sometimes with some additional notes and sometimes even with more explicit annotations. One of the things I feel like Iโm missing from my browser, browser extensions, and/or social feed reader is a social layer overlay that could indicate that people in my social network(s) have read or interacted directly with that page (presuming they make that data openly available.)โ