Damian’s notes

As part of my attempt to get back in to the swing of blogs and feeds and the IndieWeb in general, here is Julia Evans’s list of blogging myths about myths that discourage people from blogging. This was originally a 10-minute talk with her trademark stick-figure cartoons as slides.

IndieWeb is about escaping corporate web sites by running your own web site, hosting your own blog, and implementing likes, reposts, and replies via protocols like Webmention. It’s answering some of the same concerns that motivate federated social media like Mastodon, with more of an emphasis on building your own stuff.

Here’s an introduction to IndieWeb motivation, principles, community, and tech building blocks.

I discovered a gotcha with rolling one’s own Webmention implementation: your server framework probably makes the response to a successful POST request redirect to the page of the created entity, hence returning a 302 status code, whereas the Webmention spec requires a 202 or 201 response. As a result brid.gy was counting attempts to notify my server as failures.

Webactions are ways to like or reply to posts on IndieWeb sites using your own IndieWeb site instead of a social-network intermediary like Twitter.

Webmention is the IndieWeb equivalent of likes, reposts, retweets, boosts, etc.—a signal to one site that you have mentioned their content on your site.

The Social Web Protocols are a collection of standards which enable various aspects of decentralised social interaction on the Web.

Brid.gy is a service for connecting IndieWeb sites with social media sites like Twitter.

I am scratching me head over transitioning from using the Twitter button on my blog pages and toward some kind of IndieWeb solution with syndication link.