Someone from bsky mentioned he doesn’t show peoples’ avatars and just uses this library for identicons. It looks amazing! I will use this too for rendering webmentions in my blog. https://github.com/laurentpayot/minidenticons
Hey @henry just saw your talk at #11tyConf, loving the energy! 🔥🔥🔥
Too bad you only had 11 minutes, I'm currently exploring #WebMentions and would've loved to hear about it more in-depth. Did you already blog about this, by any chance?
Publish a post on your website, and link to a post on my website. Then paste the URL of your post on your website into the new box and click the up arrow.
I would like to filter out all the empty 'bridgy response' comments. It is webmention comments of the 'like' and repost' type, which are displayed seperately.
Maybe a silly #webmentions question, but is there a way you can recover deleted webmentions at webmention.io? I was having trouble with a Cybercultural post that didn't display all webmentions via Bridgy, so I manually deleted the ones that were in webmention.io/dashboard and then re-submitted the relevant Mastodon post to Bridgy — thinking that might send all the mentions to webmention.io this time. But nothing is showing up in webmention dashboard... cc @aaronpk
I've been pecking away at adding #webmentions to my #eleventy website for Cybercultural. Nearly there now, via documentation from the Eleventy community (special shoutout to @bobmonsour's page: https://www.bobmonsour.com/posts/adding-webmentions-to-my-site/) and also some coding help from Perplexity! I just need to add more styling and will be able to go-live hopefully before next week's edition of Cybercultural. #fediverse
New addition to my #WebComponents collection: <mastodon-post>!
Embed mastodon posts on your web pages by progressively enhancing a regular link and without the need for an <iframe>. Use the built in semantic template or apply your own! Read more about it here: https://darn.es/mastodon-post-web-component/
All this sudden attention to the fact that social media replies (loosely defined as #Webmentions) to your blog posts are likely coming from people who have utterly no clue that they are also being published on your blogs, where were you last month when the push from some of the #IndieWeb to "#ActivityPub everything" was being questioned. 😉
Everything on the #IndieWeb wiki looks insanely cool, and there is a lot of documentation, but am I the only one who hasn't a clue how to adopt 99% of what is on there?
#ActivityPub and #Fedi might be hard for folks to grok at first, but the on-ramp for #WebMentions for me looks like the Cliff's of Dover.
That said, I am acknowledging that plenty of folks are using IndieWeb to make truly insane things. I just want in! :P
Well that's been quite a tough few days coding for this very enthusiastic but amateur developer. Anyway, managed to get "webmentions" working on my @eleventy based blog.
Now I'm hooked... I gotta get that set up for my website. I currently use Giscuss, which is fine, but it is also limited to users wanting to sign in with Github to comment. Adding #webmentions would be something else 😍
Webmentions: how I used 1990s technology to avoid writing JavaScript.
> When I started building websites over 20 years ago, I used Perl and CGI to run simple scripts, like a guestbook (I wrote my own). I prefer Ruby these days—and Perl has deprecated CGI—but could that approach still work? I thought it would be fun to try. It turns out it does work!
#webMentions work like this; you link to someone else's url, it sends a ping to that url's /webmention endpoint, then that site checks to make sure that your site has a link to it.
What stops you from removing said link after the verification has been approved by the mentioned site?
What if I write a blog post titled "This is the best blog on the Internet" and automatically #webmention every single site that accept webmentions, one at a time, replacing the mentioned url each time?
A lot of ppl write about how they wish blogs had better reply functionality and that’s why blogging will always lose out to social media. They may list solutions to blog replies and even include #webmentions but say none of those solve the problem the way they want. But what do they want?
Social media is usually someone else’s software running on someone else’s computer. You don’t control your data. With self-hosted decentralized social media, like the #fediverse, you can control your data but most others are still using someone else’s service and don’t control their data.
Blogs are still the best way for individuals to express their thoughts while retaining control of them. And webmentions allow for those separate, decentralized blogs to reply to each other. Social software bundles various affordances into one easy-to-use package that hides most of its drawbacks. If CMS’s received the same level of polish, they could be far superior for an individual. Blogging/webmentions still need to work to make them useful for most people, but they’re already here and they solve the main problem people have in the space. We just need to build the tools to use them.