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Matt recently posted Dear WebMention users, please ask more open-ended questions.
This. So much, this!
We also WebMention a lot.
I love using WebMention, but I find so few posts that I feel I can reply to. I am desperately hungry for WebMention content that asks open-ended questions I can reply to.
I follow the Open Mentions WebMention topic closely (I follow them all because I made it), so ping something there or WebMention this post if your site is rich with fun stuff I can respond to.
Otto Rask makes the case that WebMention is not dying but is instead waiting to bloom. WebMention‘s time has not yet come. Of course, I pretty much agree and have said so before.
I’d go so far as to say WebMention is brill. What is needed are more tools and toys that a friendly towards your average user. My little collection of patterns for WordPress may or may not be the toy needed. If we keep building, eventually the age of WebMention will arrive.
Before that can happen, we current WebMention users need to start finding each other and start enjoying mentioned-powered conversations. Here’s an incomplete list.
WebMention is a protocol for letting other pages know that you mentioned them. For example, in the next paragraph, I mention a blog post by…
I want to discover other WebMention users. WebMention me if you use it. I will come and read your stuff. I’ll try to mention something in return.
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In reply to: Nathaniel Daught
The IndieWeb is a movement to return to actually owning and controlling your digital presence like we did 20+ years ago. The “IndieWeb” feels like coming home, Nathaniel Daught
It is like you read my mind. For me, IndieWeb – especially WebMention – has felt like reclaiming what we lost in our rush into the walled gardens of privately owned social media. The IndieWeb is a web of personal connections, I feel. Those walled gardens were never home. This is.
This is home.
WebMention is a protocol that allows you to comment on things from other things. Like, for example, commenting on a blog post with another blog post on an entirely different website. Better bloggers than I have been talking about WebMention and sharing their thoughts via ActivityPub (another cool thing) on Mastodon. These are my thoughts […]
Readers with long memories will remember my post “All the (active) sites using Webmention that I find (sic) so far” – the May 2022 edition and then the June 2022 edition. This is that list but updated for March 2024 and put in some sort of logical order in a post with a grammatically improved […]
Reblog from my blog
The IndieWeb is great. Between WebMention and ActivityPub I feel like I have an audience again. However, I only have access to those protocols because someone smarter than me made WordPress plugins.
The truth is that, prior to this essay, all of IndieWeb felt entirely beyond me. I did not understand what it did sometimes. Even if I understood, I did not always understand what the point was. When I understood the point, I did not always understand the technical bits enough to implement or use it. That pretty much just left bits of microformats.
The IndieWeb ideas have transformative power. They allow us to make connections, own our data and online identity. There is even more it can do if someone would just show us the way.
If as a professional developer who thinks rolling up an object-oriented CMS from scratch sounds like a fun time (me) struggles, how much harder will it be for ordinary people with actual lives to live?
There needs to be a less intense onboarding process. IndieWeb must become something that is at least as easy as WordPress (ideally much easier) so that its power can reach the masses. Right now, we are far from mass market appeal but I think we can get there.
We need a whole galaxy of options.
So that next time we say to someone: “You should own your own domain, and publish on your own website,” and they answer with “How?”, we can give an answer that’s more than just: “Install WordPress.” Let’s make the indie web easier, Giles Turnbull
This is a single section from a much bigger post discussion of making the IndieWeb easier.
The IndieWeb is slowly moving from innovation to rely adopter so it is time to start thinking about content discovery. After all, what’s the point of a game for two people if you are the only one at the table? One of the ways IndieWeb can become easier to use is to become easier to […]
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The Muse of Last resort uses Webmention on the main site. You can use it to get a link back to a story you have written based on one of our many many prompts.
Me. I’m using #Webmention. It’s great. Every blogger should run it. Especially book bloggers and authors.
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