Links pages and blogrolls were once building blocks of online communities of likeminded people, but began vanishing about fifteen years ago. But, along with a resurgent interest in personal websites, blogrolls are making a comeback, at least in indie and small web corners of the web.
I've just reactivated mine, after a long, long absence:
Currently getting my head round webfinger, webmention, indielogin, and the like: a mix of standards, experiments, and some decent results.
When does it make sense to use webfinger link relations vs link tags with rel(ationship) attributes in the <head> section of a web page? Are these equivalent features that just happen to have grown up in parallel or is there some rationale delineating the two?
Any clarifying articles greatly appreciated, as are boosts.
@jbaty Yeah, they basically are. And they don't even use standard meta tags for their link preview, as I was telling @cory yesterday.
This is where I disagree with the #IndieWeb approach. The open web should not cater to social media; it was here first. Social media should be catering to the open web.
To follow through on my pledge to do more of my #internet reading on the #indieweb, I've been visiting random blogs using this site and adding any interesting ones to an #RSS feed.
My intention is to browse this feed much the same way I would the news -call it a self-care practice. I want to spend more time in reflection and less in panic. I also want to get ideas for, perhaps, my own blog someday.
123guestbook is shutting down in a few months - wondering what to switch to. Any of you still maintain a presence on the #smallweb/#indieweb? What do you use for a #guestbook ?
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Does anyone have an example they can share for how to add media (images) to a post programmatically (preferably with bash/shell scripts) in the Mastodon API? The official documentation looked more like JS and complicated, I'd like to see a simpler script.
Calling #indieweb. I would love to explore a more graph-based internet community form.
I was thinking about how posts and comments onFacebook, Reddit, etc. is so short-lived. Forum fixes this, but things can also be quite detached from each other. Ex. News about an event can come in multiple threads -- what if we could follow the trend of this, especially after many years.
I am thinking of something like a knowledge graph like Obsidian, but for internet communities.
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> many of us seem to instinctively drop most of the interesting links we find right into the timelines of the many – oh, so many! – social media silos. With the recent revival of personal websites and blogs, however, a lot of people are rediscovering a more thoughtful and persistent alternative: sharing links on their personal…
All blog posts are now tagged in an attempt to make the blog more browsable. Each post also features a “Related reading” section at the bottom which links to other posts with the same tag(s).
I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week until I don't or unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 14: starbreaker.org https://starbreaker.org/