#webmention — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #webmention, aggregated by home.social.
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My day so far
Got up after a good long sleep and decided to add some pictures to my /me page. Decided that the pictures should be hosted on the same domain but that another subdomain was probably okay.
Got sidetracked checking out my many open tabs with the intention of closing some. More tabs are now open.
Browsed places I have previously shared pictures.
Got sidetracked looking at my past photography.
Post the first picture to my social media node (here). Added it to my /me page.
Added a link to my site about my dad as it was relevant.
Got sidetracked updating the code that runs the site. All up to date.
Posted said first post. That’s odd; the manual ping did not send. Sent a ping.
Got sidetracked when I remembered one of my blogs was flooding someone’s website with mentions.
Got sidetracked reading their blog while trying to remember which site I linked to it on.
Remembered and opened the blog in question.
Got sidetracked checking comments held for moderation.
Got sidetracked replying to comments
Got sidetracked following a link in the comments
Got sidetracked reading about ADHD diagnosis options
Got sidetracked messaging my sister about an idea from following the link
Got sidetracked posting a reply thanking for link
Got sidetracked back to bug hunting.
Got sidetracked when asking AI why the pings keep sending; learned I might want to look at the post meta for pings sent. Realised I needed to know the blog ID as it is part of a network.
Went to the blog’s parent blog to look up its blog ID.
Got sidetracked removing spam from parent blog
Got sidetracked checking which email domains spammers were using and blocking them
Got sidetracked refreshing RSS feeds for the parent site.
Looked up blog ID; opened PHPMyAdmin to look at post meta. Yep, the flooded site is not listed.
Went to GitHub and found someone had opened an issue about this. Posted my findings to the issue.
Got sidetracked browsing the issues on GitHub
Got sidetracked commenting on issues
Got sidetracked when I panicked and thought it was Thursday, and I was running late. I was halfway to getting ready to go out when I realised it was Wednesday.
Got sidetracked writing this post about how often I got distracted today
What do you mean by attention issue?
I guess I will try and find my way back to adding photos to my /me page.
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Snapshot of my blog’s reactions by week
I love getting likes, shares, and all that. I also enjoy charting things. Thus, I charted some data from my fediverse instance that is also a blog.
As well as being a bit of the fediverse, this account is also a single-user #WordPress blog. It receives ActivityPub likes, replies, and boosts, WebMentions, pingbacks, trackbacks, pings, and local comments.
The data for the chart is updated once a day and does not show the current week. That’s to stop the last data point looking low and to stop me obsessing over my reaction count while still letting me view nicely formatted data.
You can see the live chart on my blog. Today (8th July) it will look exactly the same. It will remain fairly similar until Monday morning. The chart uses Google Charts because I don’t like to reinvent the square wheel and I’m not that good at JavaScript to roll my own. Feel free to suggest open source libraries that can do this to a similar standard.
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@michaelharley That's a very good point about making those distinctions; it is the next thing on my to-do list :-/
But at the moment I'm more bothered by the ones that just seem to ignore you altogether...
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Authors who inspired you – a writing and reply challenge/competition
I’d like to challenge you to write about the authors who inspired you. I’ll pick my top favourite answers at the end of the challenge, but I will honourable mention every reply.
How this works
Anyone can take part. There’s no charge at all (much like a dead battery). You can enter as many times as you wish. Write about all the authors you love.
You can join this challenge in one of three ways.
- You can post a reply right here. But you want to own your own content, right?
- You can answer with a blog post or web page (or even a forum post) of your own. Just link to this page and put the URL in the ping form at the bottom (unless you have automagical WebMention pings set up).
- You can also reply via any ActivityPub blog or social media (Mastodon, for example).
The last day of this challenge is the 30th of September. After that, I will collate all of your lovely replies and pick a “winner” or two.
If you have nowhere else to publish your entry, you can use our general chat forum.
If we get a large number of entries, I’ll write a roundup post of the entries so far. So get in sooner rather than later for the most attention.
How I pick a winner will be based on a mix of how much I enjoyed reading your writing as well as the number of comments, likes, shares, boosts, mentions, replies, and so forth.
Prompts about your author (all optional)
- When did you first discover your author?
- What book from your author did you read first?
- Where did you read this book?
- How was that first reading?
- What about this author inspires you?
- Why did you first pick up a book by your author?
- What do you admire about them?
- What’s a perfect quote from your author?
- Which book by your author should new readers try first?
I look forward to reading your entries.
#Author #AuthorPlatform #blogging #blogs #challenge #reading #WebMention
