@jussipekonen I like NewsBlur a lot.
// @sumudu
@matigo It's the old story; if you owe the bank a few thousand, they own you. If you owe them a few billion, you own them.
// @streakmachine
@matigo Whatever it is, I look forward to giving it a try. I would also like to promote a discussion about where you want to go and how other people can maybe help.
// @phoneboy
Odd. Encrypt.me seems unable to secure a connection on this free WiFi network at the airport. In which case, what’s the point?
Webmentions are the glue that sticks all the bits in all the sites together.
That's my one-liner about one of the core ideas about the #IndieWeb, but it doesn't actually tell you very much if you want to know how the glue works. I've kind of absorbed a moderately high-level abstraction over the past little while of playing with webmentions, but a friend asked for more:
Do you know of any diagrams that explain how this stuff works without all the … words that web communities seem to enjoy creating? I keep coming back to this topic every so often, and every time I return things just appear more complicated and broken than before …
I don't think that last opinion is merited, but then I would say that. And right now I don't have the time to write up my understanding. I'm pretty sure I saw something clear and to the point a little while back, but I'm blowed if I can find it now. So here are four pieces I have found.
- Implementing Webmentions [allinthehead.com], which contains a good verbal description of the flow.
- Adactio: Journal—Parsing webmentions [adactio.com], which explains some the technology too.
- So long Disqus, hello Webmention [nicolas-hoizey.com] has a go at why webmentions are a good idea and some of the nuts and bolts of implementation.
- Webmentions · Rudiger Meyer [rudigermeyer.com] is another good verbal description of the how, along with the why and the what.
These may not answer the question fully, but they are a start. And they might inspire me to write my own version, especially if I could have a synchronous discussion about it with my interlocuter.
// @matigo @jws
POSSE from About webmentions [stream.jeremycherfas.net]
@jws I haven’t forgotten. Just been out interviewing people for the podcast. Will do it as soon as I get home.
/@matigo
@matigo I'll look for something I did see recently.
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