#webmention — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #webmention, aggregated by home.social.
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#POSSE = fancy acronym for cross posting content that is also on your blog.
#webmention = pingbacks but less spam because even the spammers don't want to adopt it
#indieauth = your domain expired and now some hacker bought your accounts on ten servers for $20 a year, except this is legal and by design. -
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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@wyatt WordPress in particular is not strictly not necessary; other server-side blogging software has analogous features.
- create and edit posts using Markdown formatting, possibly with custom extensions
- preview HTML rendering of a post before it goes live
- upload media to include in posts
- let other writers create posts
- send Pingback or Webmention notifications to sites your posts cite and receive them from sites citing your posts
- present paginated lists of posts in HTML and Atom forms
- filter these lists by date or category tag
- perform full-text searches and present their replies
- let readers create comments on a post or another comment, with preview of the comments
- set privileges on who may comment and what may appear in comments
- show, hide, or delete comments and mentionsWhich of these features are dispensable?
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Cross referencing two documents by establishing a bi-directional link, indirectly mediated via #Hypothesis.
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3380777
#webmention #backlink #intertext #webring #sneakerweb #hyptertext #pingback #complementaryNotice
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what do you think about: set all linked mastodon (et al) posts as in-reply-to when federating a #WordPress posts!?!
very similar to the old #pingback and not so old #webmention days?
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I started to create a new #HTML5 and #CSS4 boilerplate, mainly for my personal use. I'm aiming for the following:
1. #A11y / #Accessibility support / #ARIA
Often forgotten. This time, it's deeply personal, it's now a must for me.
2. Avoid #IconFonts, use #SVG instead.
Same as the first item, but deserves to be mentioned separately.
3. #Microformats support
For #IndieWeb, #Webmention, #Fediverse, and related support.
4. Use the ‘rel’ attribute where appropriate
Same as those in the previous items.
5. Styling using style classes only. Not microformats classes, as those can be reused for other purposes.
I used to, and I also noticed others doing the same, use microformats classes for styling. And then just override it if the same microformat class is reused elsewhere. Makes everything confusing; and hard to track, especially if you're using someone else's theme/template/skin.
6. Avoid using advance CSS selectors as much as possible; without resorting to multiple styling classes.
Multiple classes, as well as, advance CSS selectors, can and do slow down rendering. It's easy to fall into this trap because it makes things easier. I'm guilty of it.
7. Drop deprecated stuff; and only use future-proof ones.
Like backwards compatibility with anything IE.
Also, many CSS resets are actually no longer needed.
8. Less JavaScript as possible.
If something can be done without scripts, use that method. Everything else is optional. The site should work with or without scripts.
Remember, we're creating a boilerplate that we can reuse. We build on top of it.
9. As semantic as possible.
For example, use “article”, “main”, “nav”, “aside”, “section”, where applicable, instead of “div” with a “role” and/or “id/class”.
We requested for those when HTML5 was being developed, but only few actually use it (especially blog templates).
10. BEM methodology
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I hope those are everything worth applying in this journey.
Some notes:
* For #SchemaOrg, I prefer #JSON than embedding it in the HTML code through classes or itemprop.
* I understand there are a few with some of the goals I listed already implemented, but I prefer to learn along the way, not “how to use” this and that. -
My blog is hosted as a static website on my own domain name. I've been thinking about how the web has been moving towards centralised services like Medium lately, and wondering how decentralised blogs could benefit more from network effects.
I've found #IndieWeb and #webmention / #pingback recently, they look interesting. I like the idea of different blogs replying to each other.
What is there available for this sort of stuff? Also thinking about comments