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I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

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Re: I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

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Post by antii »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #26

If IndieWeb wants content, burying it under a ton of tech soup is the exact opposite of what they claim they want. How do the developers not realise that this set of protocols is completely unworkable for 90% of users? Please stop developing systems where the engineering is front and centre. If you want to put content UX first, you need to do exactly that, with a one-click solution that gets users up and running inst…

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Re: I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

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Post by andros »

5701652400 wrote: post #72
andros wrote: post #64

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Are you sure?

https://github.com/pricing https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/22817

GitHub Pages is free for public repos, which makes perfect sense for a public blog. IndieWeb content is public by design.

Re: I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

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Post by BoingBoomTschak »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #54
BoingBoomTschak wrote: post #39

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They're not just "important", a blog without RSS/Atom feed is like a car without wheels.

I’ve never had an rss on any blog/site I’ve ever hosted and never felt like I’m missing anything What is the advantage to me of maintaining an rss? Is there some giant rss feed following community I’m missing?

Do you think I'll just check manually every day to see if you wrote a new post? That for each and every blog I follow?

That's like comparing old school Windows software updating where you "just have to go on the website and read the news" vs `apt update && apt upgrade`.

Re: I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

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Post by tracerbulletx »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #26

If IndieWeb wants content, burying it under a ton of tech soup is the exact opposite of what they claim they want. How do the developers not realise that this set of protocols is completely unworkable for 90% of users? Please stop developing systems where the engineering is front and centre. If you want to put content UX first, you need to do exactly that, with a one-click solution that gets users up and running inst…

No. Exact opposite. Opening it up to everyone is what kills everything good, the endless september of grocery store tabloid aisles and clickbait. Gatekeepers are good, restrictions on participation are good. The internet was better when it was a self selecting place for interesting interested people and not the global walmart.

Re: I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

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Post by 6510 »

andros wrote: post #21
inigyou wrote: post #20

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It's not possible. But there are more and less neutral ones.

I'm asking you out of pure curiosity, it's not an attack: what difference does it make to have a domain controlled by Google versus a more general one?

No support

Re: I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

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Post by 6510 »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #54
BoingBoomTschak wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not just "important", a blog without RSS/Atom feed is like a car without wheels.

I’ve never had an rss on any blog/site I’ve ever hosted and never felt like I’m missing anything What is the advantage to me of maintaining an rss? Is there some giant rss feed following community I’m missing?

You don't have to maintain it, you make it once then it just works. As long as your website can print post titles and urls to a document the rss feed should work.

Re: I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

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Post by BoingBoomTschak »

superkuh wrote: post #6
andros wrote: post #4

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h-feed is recommended for the IndieWeb, making your HTML your feed, and RSS/Atom for the rest of the planet.

I don't know about you, but I don't know of any native (non website/javascript) software that supports h-feeds. IndiePass was only ever for smartphones and it's fully dead. h-feed is more of a html integrated mark-up for posts than any form of actual separate feed file. This is claimed to be a positive aspect of h-feeds, not being a separate file... but it really isn't. I keep track of all the other indieweb sites I…

It's at https://andros.dev/blog/feed/en/

Had to look at the page source to find it, since without JS, the bottom left button does nothing.

Re: I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

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Post by andros »

BoingBoomTschak wrote: post #78
superkuh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about you, but I don't know of any native (non website/javascript) software that supports h-feeds. IndiePass was only ever for smartphones and it's fully dead. h-feed is more of a html integrated mark-up for posts than any form of actual separate feed file. This is claimed to be a positive aspect of h-feeds, not being a separate file... but it really isn't. I keep track of all the other indieweb sites I…

It's at https://andros.dev/blog/feed/en/ Had to look at the page source to find it, since without JS, the bottom left button does nothing.

Modals use JS, that's normal.
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