Nicholas A. FerrellRe; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (2/4)
(See part 1 of my reply.) Mr. Powiertowski writes that the point on which he would "push back gently is on the implication that AI-assisted media is somehow lesser for being assisted," using early negative views of photography as an example. While my largely negative views of the current AI moment in the context of online writing and “content” are well-documented (including in links from A Positive Technologist Identity), I will note that I cited to Mr. Powiertowski’s “thoughtful” […]
Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (1/4)
I published a short post titled A Positive Technologist Identity, wherein I offered my thoughts on a longer post by Wojtek Powiertowski titled The tool, the craft, and the joy. In the main, I appreciated his take on defining oneself as a "technologist" in a positive way, that is, in terms of what one is for rather than what one is against. That emphasis, I noted, was wholly consistent with my then-recent article on defining good tech positively. Toward the end of my post, I noted one point of […]
Internet Reply Posting
Maddy Miller wrote a good essay titled I wish reply articles worked better. As a fellow fan of site-to-site conversations (and not at all a fan of social media), I too wish that reply articles work better and agree with her sentiments entirely. As a partial solution, she implemented Webmentions on her site (may this cross the internet sea as a Webmention). This site has "full" Webmention support and my main project has what what I would describe as partial Webmention support. Of course, the […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/internet-reply-posting-03-22-26/
SergiI spent the weekend adding a bunch of microformat classes to my blog and registering it to https://webmention.io/.
I have no idea if I added the microformats correctly. They seem to be parsed fine, but I'm not sure I'm using them right "semantically". If anybody wants to check it out (https://sergiswriting.com) it is greatly appreciated!
I guess next weekend I'll have to start adding some JS (gasp!) to display comments and other stuff.
Michael HarleyHey #Fediverse, #Indieweb folks, can someone please help me test #webmentions on my site? I've added the functionality but I want to see how posts from other people's blog will be presented on my site.
If you're so inclined, can you pleaes send me a webmention from your site and target this post:
Lee PerryI'm going to build a second site at trackd.prry.uk to move activity logging out of my main feed. Realised earlier that I can use webmentions to backlink through to the digital garden on my main site.
🔖 #indieWeb #webmentions #pureblog
https://prry.uk/2026-03-18-note
Fabio ManganielloAfter Madblog, how many of you would like #ActivityPub and #Indieweb support to come to GPSTracker too?
This is an idea that I’ve been flirting with for a while.
Like many Millennials, 10-15 years ago I was into the Foursquare-mania. It was the age where pubs would offer discount to their Foursquare mayor and where people used to share their Foursquare stats and compete on how many badges they had collected.
Then Foursquare decided to pivot its platform towards the business-side instead, the check-in app was spun off into Swarm, it gradually lost users but it gained trackers, and by now I think only 1-2 of my contacts (out of >100 in the golden age) still use it.
By now I don’t think anyone has filled that gap; there isn’t any social media built around networks that share and recommend their check-ins.
#GPSTracker already supports a lot of tracking, timeline and check-in features, synchronization of geo events with mobile devices, and even stats with arbitrary aggregations (by country, time range, city, region etc.). Plus some features that Foursquare never implemented (like searching for checkins on the timeline by simply selecting an area on the map).
#Microformats already support location tags through the h-adr class, although they are rarely used. Both #Webmentions and ActivityPub could send check-in activities as permalinks to pages with those tags. And the #OpenStreetMap APIs could do the heavylifting of retrieving POIs in in a certain lat/long box.
The only hurdle would be implementing the protocols under the hood, as both the Webmentions and Pubby libraries are in #Python while #GPSTracker is in #Typescript. But it could be a good chance to start writing multi-language bindings for those libraries.
Let me know if it’s something that you would use, or even self-host, and if you know if there’s anything in the Fediverse that already fills this niche.
@ricmac #Madblog has native support for #Webmentions, and unlike #ActivityPub they’re enabled by default.
I’ve tried to make it as simple as possible and avoid manual callbacks or special tags for mentioned links.
You put a link in an article, and when you save it Webmentions are sent to supported targets. Someone mentions your article from a place that supports Webmentions, and the mention is stored on your blog.
Ricardo
Vincent Bretonen revenant sur le site, je me suis rappelé le besoin de veiller toujours à la cohérence #likes #fediverse #webmentions #activitypub
https://vincentbreton.fr/ce-qui-compte-ce-sont-les-liens-pas-les-likes/
https://vincentbreton.fr/ce-qui-compte-ce-sont-les-liens-pas-les-likes/