So, in classic IndieWeb fashion, I want my website to be my hub on the internet.
But I’ve been looking into all the different standards (#Webmentions, #Micropub, #ActivityPub, etc.) but I'm not sure which one or which combination of them is best for my needs.
So I thought I might reach out on here with what I'm trying to do and see what people thought were some go ways to go about it.
Currently my site is built with @eleventy, it's a static site which I'm hosting it on Netlify. Currently it's sending and receiving webmentions, but I’m wanting more than just that. I have a feeling that with what I'm wanting to do I'll need either a server or some serverless functions.
I want to be able to post a few different content types:
Bookmarks (things I've saved to my raindrop.io, usually links)
@eleventy I want to be able to write short notes easily from my phone, so I was thinking Micropub might fit my needs but I wasn't sure.
As I mentioned bookmarks would be saved in my raindrop.io, but I want to be able to also pull them in and store them on my site. Especially if raindrop.io explodes one day I want to have all my bookmarks saved on my site still.
@elly Yeah, Micropub is a great way to accomplish this. A little tricky to do with a statically generated site (I had one working once before Heroku ended the free plan, but alas).
Some day I really want to look into Netlify functions deeper and see if I can do it through those.
I’m curious what you’re doing to automate sending webmentions...?
@keithjgrant What were you using before Heroku ended their free plan?
Yeah I feel like Netlify functions could definitely do the trick, I just don't know enough about implementation to do it myself.
Currently I'm using @codefoodpixels's Netlify plugin webmentions, which looks through RSS feed items for your posts, then checks the links on those and sends webmentions if they have an endpoint. (Actually I'm using a fork that has some more verbose logging https://github.com/aciccarello/netlify-plugin-webmentions)
@keithjgrant@elly Will jump into updating these tools real soon (can't promise any timelines though) – actually did push some commits for the first time in some years today. Thanks for mentioning it 🙏 (Sorry, didn't read whole thread, about to head to sleep)
@eleventy “Long" notes can be basically thought of as blog posts, I will probably write and store them in markdown, I just want them to be easily and automatically shared when posted. Which leads into the next thing nicely…
@elly@elly I have #IndieKit installed on a test site and looks promising. But I don’t use it for my personal posts yet, so can't fully recommend. Contributions to the repo are sporadic but recent.
Added a couple of screenshots so you can get an idea of what the admin side looks like. It is setup to have syndication plugins, too.
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