Open Mentions
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Having excellent discussions using the open and indie web. Open Mentions is a website with a growing directory of open topics you can WebMention or Reply to (Via ActivityPub) for a little content discovery. Also contains weekly open ended questions to talk about.
There is no one right way to IndieWeb. Right now, for example, right now I am IndieWebbing with this simple Markdown document system that I hand rolled.
Started blogging in 2008, when webrings were important. Moved to social networks (mainly Google+) and came back to my own blogs, self-hosted, around 2017. Both are now fedified (via ActivityPub) and POSSEād too. Webmentions are important, so both my blogs and Mastodon account are bridged. I do publish long form articles, small Ā« notes Ā» and likes/replies (as this one).
Did a few posts on IndieWeb and POSSE in French too, to explain the concepts in a WordPress context.
A few months ago Marty McGuire posted Has the IndieWeb become discourse again? The post talks about the hate IndieWeb sometimes gets because people see…
@openmentions.com I IndieWeb by replying to things here. I think we use WebMention and ActivityPub. I might start my own blog one day.
My personal IndieWeb presence / experience focuses on long-form and micro posts, along with a links page, all powered by a homegrown CMS and several micro services to provide other IndieWeb functionality such as Webmentions, IndieAuth, and now an ActivityPub experiment which is proving to be tougher to implement than anticipated š©
I blog, post, write, comment, maintain, or output content in so many spaces that I might actually miss some. Here is the list of everything (that I remembered while writing this post). I’m probably going to make updates after I publish this one. The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt, Super Geek That’s this blog you […]