#indiewebcamp 2014-11-10

2014-11-10 UTC
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fiatjaf
this is probably not the channel, but if I wanted a private anonymous-pseudonymous forum or forum-like application for a group to share information and chat about a topic, where should I look?
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GWG
IRC is pretty good for that
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fiatjaf
GWG: IRC is for real-time chat, and it is not anonymous
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KartikPrabhu
wonders if all of this "anonymous identity" is within the realm of indieweb?
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GWG
KartikPrabhu: It isn't now. I suppose it could be
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GWG
IT may be a different community.
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KartikPrabhu
usually the effect of such discussions is to lead into DNS and all that stuff
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KartikPrabhu
and over-throwing the current web-system and what not
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GWG
Overthrow?
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KartikPrabhu
yeah... re-visit the previous discussions in the logs if you wish
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GWG
Aren't we a community that suggests using a website as your identity?
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GWG
If your website forms your identity then you can have an anonymous identity by whois privacy and still participate in Indieweb
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KartikPrabhu
GWG: not really. using SSL certs etc requires you to give your real identity to the cert vendors.
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KartikPrabhu
depends on how much anonymity you want, and this is the part i think takes it far away from what the indieweb is trying to do into "overthrow the system" territory
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bret
fiatjaf: forum software has worked for that scenario for a really long time actually although running it requires sysadmin skills. Set up any forum software you want, make sure everything live behind an account login, and enforce community guidelines regarding identity
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bret
fiatjaf: http://punbb.informer.com is a choice I have used before. Pretty old school but works well. http://www.discourse.org is a more modern forum.
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kylewm
catching up on the feed/hub conversation from earlier, does anybody know how http://stream.withknown.com/ works?
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kylewm
wait, is it just a separate instance of Known with two authors...i thought at first it was aggregating content from elsewhere
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@dangillmor
Not sure why, but @indiewebcamp theme/plugins in Wordpress don't seem to be giving me 2-way comments...was working before.
(twitter.com/_/status/531668946714234880)
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GWG
This is a job for...The WORDPRESS ACTION COMMITTEE
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GWG
Or OUTREACH.
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GWG
Whatever tantek called it
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GWG
looks up page
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GWG
Shoot. No one added their name.
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@voxpelli
@LukasZielinski @KlausTrainer Try my https://webmention.herokuapp.com/ if you can’t get that one to work – used by my own Jekyll-blog :)
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@whitewildboar
RT @kartik_prabhu: The #indieweb or: how I learnt to stop worrying and love the #blog. Comes about a year since I went indie (http://t.co/F…
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GWG
Good morning
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@joelgaines
RT @healthcaretoo: #HIPAA as an excuse to withhold patient records http://www.nytimes.com ^jg always forgetting portability #OwnYourData
(twitter.com/_/status/531845644412289024)
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mko
tantek: Congrats on the launch of Firefox Developer Edition. I don't know if you had any direct involvement, but it looks like a really useful tool.
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mko
The download is taking forever, but I'm excited to try it out.
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tantek
No direct involvement no - I suppose I should check it out :)
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tantek
Good morning GWG (as tantek catches up on logs)
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tantek
What is URL design?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "URL design" yet. Would you like to create it? http://indiewebcamp.com/wiki/index.php?action=edit&title=URL+design
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bret
cool https://www.npmjs.org/package/w3cjs I think i'll write some tests to check for html error creep
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tantek.com
created /URL_design (+1392) "stub with basics about date, slug"
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mko
bret: Nice find. I wonder how well it works.
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tantek.com
edited /design (+18) "URL design is essentially part of the IA of a site"
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@ftrain
oh god i just realized i get like maybe 60% of my news from urls
(twitter.com/_/status/531847481877753856)
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tantek.com
edited /URL_design (+1660) "Add FAQ about time, US date order, am/pm"
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tantek
and that's about all I can get out of / do about the IRC chat yesterday with "TheNewYorker"
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tantek
since I know you care about this kind of thing, design that is, of all kinds :)
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mko
Indeed. Thanks. I'll take a quick peek at it before I go grab coffee.
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mko
LGTM.
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tantek
thanks
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tantek
GWG, yes re: WordPress outreach to @dangillmor!
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tantek
!tell snarfed perhaps drop @dangillmor a reply to see what's up? https://twitter.com/dangillmor/status/531668946714234880
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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tantek
GWG, I mean you should too - more attention the better
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tantek
is roughly caught up on logs. time for coffee.
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@joelgaines
^jg Patient Privacy disrupts a lot of current business models. Don't you agree? #OwnYourData
(twitter.com/_/status/531857759403540480)
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@LifeHealthDiary
^jg Patient Privacy disrupts a lot of current business models. Don't you agree? #OwnYourData
(twitter.com/_/status/531857761890754560)
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jonnybarnes
!tell barnabywalters whilst my site can send your site webmention replies that show up, your site isn't finding the author info from my post, however shrewdness does: https://shrewdness.waterpigs.co.uk/test/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjonnybarnes.uk%2Fnotes%2F41
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell him that when I see him next
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KartikPrabhu
notes usage of "whilst" !
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mowens.com
edited /URL_design (+1555) "/* How -- human readable and adds content type and ordinal sections */"
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mko
tantek: Ended up having a few additions to the explanations (specifically regarding huamn readability and adding "optional" recommendations like content type and ordinals.
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mko
s/huamn/human
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Loqi
mko meant to say: tantek: Ended up having a few additions to the explanations (specifically regarding human readability and adding "optional" recommendations like content type and ordinals.
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@kevinmarks
@adamgurri openid means you can use indieauth and so your #indieweb site
(twitter.com/_/status/531861846924349441)
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tantek
mko - looks good, except for putting type first. aaronpk and others are now struggling with that design "error"
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@adamgurri
RT @kevinmarks: @adamgurri openid means you can use indieauth and so your #indieweb site
(twitter.com/_/status/531862064399409152)
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mko
It can go anywhere. I'm curious as to why they're experiencing it as an "error" -- is this documented somewhere?
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mko
It's more or less another type of slug. I'm happy to put it at the end of the date slug in the example.
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tantek
mko - yeah it was a big IRC conversation last week I think
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mko
Hm. Okay.
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tantek
it has to do with storage, URL policies (per year) etc.
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tantek
so yeah, "type" first is an error
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tantek
here's a short reason: dates are a known thing, types are still squishy and growing
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tantek
better to put the more known (stable) thing first in your hierarchy
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mko
Not sure if I'd agreed with it being an "error." It sounds more like it's a "potential pitfall"
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mko
That I don't disagree with.
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tantek
mko - more like "eventual pitfall"
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tantek
adding a brief FAQ
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mko
Re: "types being growing" and "more known (stable) thing first"
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tantek
yup - putting that in the faq
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tantek
!tell aaronpk where was that IRC conversation about the problems you had with type-first URL structure and switching to /date first ?
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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tantek.com
edited /URL_design (+1024) "content type should not go first, change example and add FAQ"
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tantek.com
edited /URL_design (+8) "/* Ordinal */ use "N" rather than "O" for "nth" and since O is easily confused for 0"
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@thierrymarianne
Come and see what @withknown is all about at @numaparis ! #identity (We also have #cookies) cc: @kirilind #indieweb with @roussel_tristan
(twitter.com/_/status/531864389356642306)
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tantek
thanks mko. a few more updates.
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mko
Saw it. Looks good. :-)
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aaronpk
oh interesting: "Internal database IDs."
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Loqi
aaronpk: tantek left you a message 14 minutes ago: where was that IRC conversation about the problems you had with type-first URL structure and switching to /date first ?
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mko
Agreed. Big fan of that. #12 is one of my biggest annoyances for Medium's URLs. Right now, I have to delete the @ symbol every time I copy a URL to use on my site because it breaks my tweet parser right now.
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mko
I need to rewrite my tweet parser to remove the @-in-url context, but I've not had time.
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tommorris
tantek: the only thing I'd add is the string "api"
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tantek.com
edited /URL_design (+621) "add articles and what to avoid"
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tantek
aaronpk - yup - had already covered "omit … database IDs"
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aaronpk
that's a great list
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reedstrm
I keep getting pushback during design meetings that "nobody reads URLs anymore. No one cares"
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tantek
reedstrm: pushback to that with "you obviously don't maintain your own website and content then" :P
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reedstrm
Good to see I'm not the only one.
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reedstrm
Well, I can _now_. :-)
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mko
Most of our marketing team would disagree with those people giving pushback.
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tantek
apologies for the delay ;)
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tantek
I would disagree with most marketing people.
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tantek
If they're so good at marketing, where's their personal website showing that they are?
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reedstrm
tantek: I think mko was saying their marketing people ant good looking urls ...
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reedstrm
s/ ant/ want/
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Loqi
reedstrm meant to say: tantek: I think mko was saying their marketing people want good looking urls ...
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tantek
well that's good at least!
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tantek
aaronpk - do you remember when in IRC you were talking about changing your URL structure to date-primary?
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tantek
it was pretty recent ...
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aaronpk
yeah only a few days ago...
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mko
Yeah. They specifically want human readable URLs because there's growing anecdotal evidence that URL design matters to search engines.
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reedstrm
good looking isn't always good, but a goods url is usually pretty good looking ...
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aaronpk
hm if I remember a couple words I can grep my logs
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reedstrm
Ah, the SEO card! excellent.
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@IndieHosters
RT @bear: "This is my favorite kind of UX: none at all." - congrats for reaching a 1000 users - https://snarfed.org/2014-11-06_happy-1000th-bridgy #indieweb
(twitter.com/_/status/531868343297667073)
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aaronpk
tantek: heh, searched for "regret"
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tantek.com
edited /URL_design (-33) "aaronpk cited"
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aaronparecki.com
created /url-design (+23) "create redirect so the page has a nicer URL"
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aaronpk
oh dammit
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aaronpk
you beat me to it
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michielbdejong
tantek: hi! Pierre-O and I are finally setting up the non-profit hosting provider I might have told you about: https://indiehosters.net/
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tantek
neat!
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michielbdejong
aiming to offer one-click indieweb hosting
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tantek
very cool
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michielbdejong
thanks! we're excited about it, yes :)
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@roussel_tristan
RT @thierrymarianne: Come and see what @withknown is all about at @numaparis ! #identity (We also have #cookies) cc: @kirilind #indieweb wi…
(twitter.com/_/status/531870096348561408)
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bear
aaronpk - if you use apache or nginx you could create a plugin that does the rewrites according to a pattern and serve 302's
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michielbdejong
working full-time on it now in Lisbon, Portugal
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mko
Neat.
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aaronpk
bear it's not just patterns I have to redirect, tho I already did that once for a previous URL pattern change
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tantek
what is an IndieHoster?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "IndieHoster" yet. Would you like to create it? http://indiewebcamp.com/wiki/index.php?action=edit&title=IndieHoster
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tantek
michielbdejong: ^^^ go for it
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aaronpk
but now because I have things like replies/1 and notes/1, they are going to have to be re-indexed to replies/1 and notes/2
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michielbdejong
it's an independent hosting provider, so one person
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bear
in nginx you could also create perl or lua code to churn thru whatever code is needed
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michielbdejong
ah great! :)
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tantek
never got around to distinguishing replies and notes by explicit type
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aaronpk
er, that did not come out right
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aaronpk
just "1" and "2" cause i'm gonna drop the type prefix
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aaronpk
you get the idea
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aaronpk
brb coffee
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tantek
my reasoning was that both an article and a note could be a reply, so I made "replyness" an aspect (markup) of the post rather than a kind
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michielbdejong
once we're accepting customers, we'll add ourselves to http://indiewebcamp.com/hosting
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tantek
definiteliy note that in the wiki page!
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michielbdejong
we aim to offer wordpress+indieweb-plugins and Known as our first two plugins
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kylewm
tantek: I regret distinguishing reply from note for that very reason, so good on you
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michielbdejong
s/plugins/products
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Loqi
michielbdejong meant to say: we aim to offer wordpress+indieweb-products and Known as our first two products
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tantek
kylewm: it was laziness before it was deliberate ;)
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mko
I actually prefer having a specific "reply" type that is separate from my articles and notes for the same reason that Twitter offers the "Tweets" and "Tweets + Replies" as separate feeds on individuals' profiles.
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mko
In my mind, anything can *be* a reply, but I have a specific note-like content type that is only used for replying to people.
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@joelgaines
"Healthcare industry, listen up: You've got a consumer distrust issue on your hands. " http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/trust-issues-over-health-privacy-persist #OwnYourData
(twitter.com/_/status/531871422776614913)
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@LifeHealthDiary
"Healthcare industry, listen up: You've got a consumer distrust issue on your hands. " http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/trust-issues-over-health-privacy-persist #OwnYourData
(twitter.com/_/status/531871422843740160)
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mko
That way people can look at all of my non-reply content (since large quantities of reply content can be irrelevant to third-parties).
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mko
s/look at all of my/look specifically at my
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Loqi
mko meant to say: That way people can look specifically at my non-reply content (since large quantities of reply content can be irrelevant to third-parties).
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reedstrm
is the set of hashtags that Loqi tracks documented anywhere?
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kylewm
reedstrm: I don't think so, but I think it is {indieweb, webmention, ownyourdata, indieauth} possible plus {micropub}
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reedstrm
ownyourdata just popped up, so got me wondering ...
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kylewm
question, anyone have strong feelings about whether to POSSE-to-twitter replies from one indieweb site to another?
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kylewm
I mostly find them redundant, but I suppose it could help third party discovery
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reedstrm
kylewm: seems a personal policy/decision to me: do you want to keep your audience-on-twitter involved, or have you/we bootstrapped enough of a indienet to not need it?
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tantek
kylewm: I think it's especially useful if the original is also POSSE'd to twitter http://indiewebcamp.com/Twitter#POSSE_Replies_to_Twitter
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reedstrm
marvels at the completeness of the indiewebcamp wiki
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tantek
and if the original is *not* on Twitter, POSSEing your reply to Twitter is still useful if your reply is "self-contained" enough to be relevant to your Twitter readers
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kylewm
ok fair enough. I do get a special joy out of site-to-site replies that never hit twitter tho :)
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tantek
kylewm: totally underestood. hence definitely a judgment call / personal pref in that case
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tantek
reedstrm: the only way I found to work through all my thoughts on replacing my posting to Twitter with posting to my own site was to thoroughly document each case I had to solve, and I figured I might as well do so using the IndieWebCamp wiki
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reedstrm
kylewm: yup, signs of incipient independence!
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tantek
a lot of the http://indiewebcamp.com/Twitter grew out of my real world experiences posting to my own site instead of Twitter from 2010-01-01 on.
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reedstrm
Yeah, it shows the hallmarks of a standard designed from real-world experience, rather than what-might-be-useful speculation.
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tantek
reedstrm: unfortunately I had to walk a path of many years of what-might-be-useful speculation to get to this point.
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aaronpk
mko: that is the reason I have a separate reply type too, so that people don't see my replies by default. although now I just want to do that by showing filtered feeds rather than having it be an explicit different post type
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tantek
(and having that speculation be 95%+ useless)
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mko
tantek: It's funny that we're talking about URL Design in #indieweb today. I'm literally about to walk into a URL design discussion for our current redesign. :-)
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mko
tantek++
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Loqi
tantek has 116 karma
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reedstrm
oh, no doubt: that's research. Just glad to see the painfully won fruits out there for us all to use.
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aaronpk
also I am happy to say I did not create a separate "photo" type/feed, but rather I can attach a photo to notes or replies or any other post
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tantek
reedstrm: not research, but flawed methodology unfortunately. I learned from many communities of what-might-be-useful speculation (e.g. standards communities) and it took a long time to question and unlearn that :/
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reedstrm
What I hate to see are standards or 'best practices' that are just the initial speculation, w/o the hard won experience. Common refrain from developers "has anyone ever actually implemented this? It's impossible!"
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mko
aaronpk: I have both standalone photo type and the ability to attach photos to any other post.
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tantek
reedstrm: yes it's endemic
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tantek
mko - I think that makes sense to have both
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tantek.com
edited /Twitter (+453) "/* POSSE Replies to Twitter */ note about joy about indie-to-indie replies not hitting Twitter. sub-sub-heads"
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mko
photo content type ~= flickr upload (in my world)
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aaronpk
I do plan to have a photo post type eventually, but it's gonna be for large quantities of photos like my flickr account
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aaronpk
mko: yeah exactly
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reedstrm
aaronpk: are attached photos going to be polymporphically accessible as their own thing as well? 'cause then you an bootstrap up to "large quantities"
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aaronpk
basically I want to replicate flickr
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aaronpk
so much of the structure of thing there is exactly how I want to organize photos
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tantek
so much goodness to add to the /photo page, like in a == Why == section etc.!
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tantek
what is a photo?
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tantek
huh - why no dfn Loqi?
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aaronpk
because of the "p-summary" in the body text. one sec.
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aaronparecki.com
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aaronpk
what is a photo?
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Loqi
A photo is a post whose primary content is a photograph or other image, with an optional caption http://indiewebcamp.com/photo
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aaronpk
the problem with all this fun discussion on monday morning is it makes me want to stop everything else and go build stuff on my site
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tantek.com
edited /photo (+0) "why before how"
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reedstrm
hi thedod!
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thedod
Sorry. Back. Had some thought about reviving IndieAuth OpenID support https://zzzen.com/hiddenid/?p=74#comment-23
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aaronpk
thedod: IndieWebCamp is not "a community of server admins"
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thedod
maybe wrong wording
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aaronpk
i mean there certainly are some server admins here
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thedod
I mean I'm here as someone with a domain
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thedod
so maybe I have a blog there,
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thedod
it's a service I provide. It's a personal thing. but I'm a provider
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thedod
it like there are 3 circles (and some people belong to more than one):
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thedod
most are at the shopping mall
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thedod
some have lemon juice stands or a used record shop
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thedod
but they're still ok with the authorities (have certificates)
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thedod
then there are Tor users (maybe the same person also has facebook or an indieweb site)
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thedod
they're anonymous, so they're *only* users. no other credentials
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thedod
so they are like the people the authotorities frown upon: illegal immigrants, runaway kids, but they're part of the society
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thedod
HiddenID tries to integrate those "dubious" anonymous users into "legit society"
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thedod
so in that respect, indiewebcamp people can "provide services" to "tor users"
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thedod
aaronpk, any idea what terms to use about this user/provider relation?
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thedod
or did I get the pitch all wrong?
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aaronpk
I don't know, this doesn't seem very relevant to what I'm working on personally so I'm not gonna have much to say about it
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reedstrm
which pitch? indiewebcamp? It does sound like you're a little off the mark. The idea here is "own your own data"
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aaronpk
I'm focused on building my own site and building things for people who have a domain name
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aaronpk
reedstrm: and own your identity
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reedstrm
So at a philisophical level, own your own voice. Right.
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reedstrm
Sometimes, you need to speak anonymously, (c.f. can't be bothered to find the cites right now) but it's not the focus of this.
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thedod
What about the voiceless? Chinese dissidents? Abused wives? Perhaps there's a way they could comment on your blog (if relevant).
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thedod
Owning your data is also owning who gets to comment on it
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aaronpk
thedod: if that is a priority for you, then by all means work on solutions to it
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reedstrm
see discussion re /vouch :-) mostly the concern recently has been avoiding providing the trolls a platform.
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reedstrm
thedod: this is an interesting balance to that, though.
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thedod
HiddenID is an attempt
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thedod
thank, reedstrm
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thedod
At the moment, the main focus is on wordpress, because that can be an easy way to get many "services" (blogs), so I already have a pitch why HiddenID auth is better than Wordpress email auth:
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thedod
if bob comments on alice's blog, is identified by email, and gets moderated,
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thedod
eve, who knows bob's email address, can impersonate bob
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thedod
Can't happen with HiddenID
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thedod
now it's not like maintaining comments is a bed of roses with or without this,
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reedstrm
I like to keep the distinction between authentication,authorization and identification.
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thedod
authentication is what I call "accountability" (I'm the same one who was here yesterday)
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thedod
identification is a tricky one. e.g. sulman rushdie vs facebook
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thedod
or maybe we don't mean the same things by authentication and identification.
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reedstrm
thedod: hosting of indieweb is a thing - it's not all about roll-your-own server. See known. So, you're talking providing hosting, with special consideration to providing it in a way that is friendly to those who need to hide their 'real world' identity. And hopefully, baking it into the set of indieweb protocols so by default, all the 'indie' sites are accountable friendly.
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thedod
not providing hosting at all
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thedod
I was talking about leaving comments and such
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thedod
wikis
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thedod
stuff you let people "from the street" do today if they did IndieAuth
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thedod
(perhaps moderated)
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reedstrm
thedod: I think we do: anonymous is "could be anybody", accountable/authenticated is "the same thedod as last week", identified is "thedod who lives at 1000 Main St., Sometown, somewhere"
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thedod
there are slides I did about the dangers of "identification" http://is.gd/savethetrolls
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thedod
but tl;dr
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thedod
if there's a blog for cancer patients
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reedstrm
Well, not you personally providing the hosting, but someone somewhere provides the service, so you're here to make sure the protocols/processes support that case.
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thedod
knowing it's "the dod who lives at so and so" is a breach of medical confidentiality laws
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reedstrm
Ouch, going for the controversial title, eh?
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thedod
reedstrm, not sure I uderstood what you said about protocols/processes (like who's "you"? user? blogger? isp?)
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reedstrm
I think we (the massive collective we) are smart enough to come up with ways to support the legit anonymous w/o having to allow the trolls free reign. Reviewing vouch w/ that in mind would be useful.
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reedstrm
you as in 'thedod'
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reedstrm
what is vouch
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Loqi
The Vouch protocol is an anti-spam extension to Webmention. Webmention with Vouch depends on understanding Webmention http://indiewebcamp.com/Vouch
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thedod
I'll have a look at vouch
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reedstrm
what is anonymous
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "anonymous" yet. Would you like to create it? http://indiewebcamp.com/wiki/index.php?action=edit&title=anonymous
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thedod
ok. so vouch is in the realm of webmentions
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BTW, how do we do webmentions with .onion involved?
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reedstrm
thedod: I see this group (this chat/indiewebcamp) as the proving ground/skunkworks for developing the nextgen protocols and tech (and reviving existing neglected ones!) to free the web from dependence on the social media silos. The participatory web.
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tantek
thedod could you provide links to your definitions of authentication / accountability / identification as it sounds like you have very specific meanings to explain (better to explain them on a longer page on your own website than dump in IRC)
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reedstrm
thedod: sounds like an interesting topic for the virtual camp Sunday. :-) The intersection of "this" and the indieweb.
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thedod
The only thing that comes to mind is the slides at http://is.gd/savethetrolls (it's not long),
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thedod
but let me look...
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tantek
I think this is quite flawed: http://swinger.thedod.iriscouch.com/#/preso/trollz/display/3 troll != need for anonymity. none of those examples are trolls iMO
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tantek
thedod - yes, I think you need permalinks for each term on its own
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tantek
asking someone to page through a preso is not really reasonable
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aaronpk
until someone shows up here with their own .onion personal website I suspect there won't be much interest in getting webmentions to work with it
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thedod
here I am
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thedod
here *we* are
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thedod
the HideenID "potential market"
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tantek
thedod - why not thedod.mynameisme.org ?
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thedod
mynameis.me was a project
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thedod
doctorow is also there and he didn't complain :)
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tantek
who is saying "having more than one identity is called trolling" ?!? citation needed
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tantek
thedod see /subdomain for why users should have subdomains not paths on such sites.
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thedod
I agree, but it's not my site. they just asked for a post
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aaronpk
oh is that a post on the site, not a profile?
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herbsmn
if anyone ever hears of someone using a .onion to host an indieweb site, please let me know!
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Loqi
herbsmn: bret left you a message on 7/28 at 5:27pm: Here is that tumbler theme that was made at IWC2014: http://indiewebcamp.com/2014/Demos#Paul_and_Darrin
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tantek
thedod - ok, then I still don't understand how those are links to your definitions
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tantek
strongly disagreed with this point on this slide http://swinger.thedod.iriscouch.com/#/preso/trollz/display/10 ' "Trolling" is a basic human right '
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thedod
tantek, I think it's a basic semantic problem here
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tantek
thedod - I think there's lots of problems with the case you're trying to make here
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thedod: I can see such a presentation a year ago, but today, post certain events, the word trolling is no longer useful.
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tantek
thedod - nope - look up any popular definition of troll
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loqi: thanks for remembering! you are cool!
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thedod
I didn't say *you* were wrong. I said there was a problem :)
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tantek
"a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people,[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4]"
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aaronpk
thedod: I see what you're getting at, but I don't think "troll" is the right word to use. maybe if you used a different word, the point you're trying to make would come across better.
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tantek
thedod - if there's such a fundamental problem with the words you're using to try to support your proposals / projects / definitions, then it becomes difficult to discuss them
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GWG
Tantek, being antisocial and annoying is a human right.
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reedstrm
Right: if I was giving a presentation to law enforcement types, I don't lead with the word hacker, for example.
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GWG
If course, it is my right to ignore it.
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GWG
Or block it
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thedod
tantek, I agree with you. I've learned here today that no matter what *I* think the word "troll" means, it's not productive to use it :)
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reedstrm
GWG perhaps, but that doesn't mean I need to support it on my site, even with the protocols I develop.
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tantek
GWG - if your'e referring to free speech sure. like any right, we draw the boundary where it imposes on others rights, such as to be free of abuse and harm.
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tantek
thedod - it *is* useful to use the term troll when it means what people popularly take it to mean per wikipedia
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yo aaronpk: getting cert error on the https version of the logs
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aaronpk
KartikPrabhu: in firefox?
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tantek
thedod - for example that Wikipedia article relates it specifically to online harrassment
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aaronpk
try a different browser
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KartikPrabhu
hmmm is it a FF problem?
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aaronpk
apparently I was supposed to wait a day after getting the new cert
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tantek
thedod please read http://indiewebcamp.com/code-of-conduct for example
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aaronpk
to wait for the OCSP servers to catch up or something. I don't know how this works.
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KartikPrabhu
aaronpk: yeah works on chrome
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tantek
KartikPrabhu: nope - AFAIK FF is being strict with handling HTTPS
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ok will report later if persists
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thedod
OK. So I'll try to revise stuff so that it doesn't use the term "troll" for "someone with multiple identites"
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reedstrm
So, I think there _is_ a place for a voice in these discussion who looks at them from the point of view of the needs of the pseduonymous. That's what ello supposedly started about, isn't it?
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tantek
thanks thedod - I think that will help you get your points across much better.
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aaronpk
pseudonyms are totally compatible with the indieweb
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aaronpk
as are multiple identities
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tantek
agreed
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thedod
multiple is the key point
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aaronpk
yeah nobody is arguing against that
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tantek
what is a pseudonym?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "pseudonym" yet. Would you like to create it? http://indiewebcamp.com/wiki/index.php?action=edit&title=pseudonym
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thedod
and to minimize the ability to unify them
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tantek
thedod - do you have a blog post about this on your own site? something saying what you have already figured out? beyond the slide deck?
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tantek
or are you brainstorming realtime in the channel?
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tantek
are you using it on your own site?
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thedod
and there's a whole blog at https://zzzen.com/hiddenid where you can only login with HiddenID (was built as a demo), but it contains many posts about this
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tantek
and I didn't ask about a project, I asked about all the discussion you made above about identities, multiple etc.
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thedod
including one about "I'm going to indiewebcamp"
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tantek
thedod - is zzzen just a demo site?
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tantek
not your personal site?
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thedod
zzzen is me and my wife
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thedod
we make sites
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thedod
dubiousdod.org is me
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tantek
do you use the same IRC nickname also?
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thedod
but I can't use it with indieauth because / redirects to an ugly url
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thedod
the same irc nickname as what?
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tantek
what software are you using that makes it redirect to an ugly url?
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tantek
as you
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thedod
tahoe-lafs.org
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aaronpk
actually indieauth supports redirects just fine
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thedod
then I'll give it a whirl.
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tantek
what is Tahoe-LAFS?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "Tahoe-LAFS" yet. Would you like to create it? http://indiewebcamp.com/wiki/index.php?action=edit&title=Tahoe-LAFS
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tantek
thedod, in general it is frowned upon on indiewebcamp.com to use "shared" sites for login - certainly against the intent.
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aaronpk
you'll need either a rel-me link to twitter which then links back to https://dubiousdod.org/ or you could use one of the other providers like persona/gpg
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tantek
typically such sites get blacklisted in indiewebcamp's usage of indieauth
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tantek
to discourage that
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thedod
ok. if redirects work, brb
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thedod
zzzen.com *represents* me and my wife as an *idea*
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aaronpk
http://dreev.es is an example of this
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thedod
it's not a shared service
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thedod
but let me fix this and become https://dubiousdod.org BRB
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tantek
btw regarding the POSSE discussion earlier today, and kylewm's point about why bother to POSSE an indie-to-indie reply to Twitter, I'm seeing very different interaction on POSSE copies on Twitter vs Facebook
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tantek
I only POSSE a few things to FB, manually using Bridgy publish. While I automatically POSSE all my posts to Twitter.
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GWG
Tantek, why? Because of the increased number of formats on Facebook?
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tantek
GWG, I'm experimenting with POSSE to FB
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tantek
it's a new thing
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tantek
for me
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GWG
Oh. I just find I get more backfeed
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tantek
For my most recent post - http://tantek.com/t4Z31 - it has gotten 11x more interactions (comments and likes) on the FB POSSE copy than the Twitter POSSE copy.
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GWG
Of course, the value of the feed is questionable
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tantek
I've never seen such disparity
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tantek
I'm wondering what kind of interactions others get who POSSE to both Twitter and FB.
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tantek
I think benwerd does that
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GWG
The Facebook denizens have been trained to like things
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GWG
Twitter favorites aren't as clearly defined
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tantek
and comment more. I got ~10 comments on FB. and zero @-replies on Twitter.
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reedstrm
tantek: that's also a 'personal lifestyle' type of post. Depending on who follows you where, you might see diff results.
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tantek
GWG, I also wonder if it has to do with Twitter people only seeing a bit of the post
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tantek
and having to click through to my site to read the rest
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reedstrm
e.g. I 'friend' family on FB, I follow professional colleagues on twitter ( and G+)
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tantek
reedstrm FWIW I have about 2.5x more followers on Twitter than FB.
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GWG
I'm easy. I will be your friend anywhere, but if you are active on multiple services I'll pick the one that you are most active/useful on.
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tantek
and anyone can @-reply to my tweet. whereas I think only about ~1500 can on FB.
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tantek
structurally I should be seeing more interactions on Twitter
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tantek
Just wanted to provide this POSSE comparison data point to see if others have different/similar experiences
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GWG
Tantek, I am still having Twitter POSSE issues. I keep getting truncated.
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GWG
But it may just be the same thing you see.
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GWG
Be back later.
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tantek
GWG - "getting truncated?" I think you have to deliberately truncate before POSSEing to twitter or else it returns an error.
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tantek
Twitter won't auto-truncate for you through the API.
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reedstrm
tantek Hmm, just look at the two formats of the post, the tweet is not very compelling, to me, as not -a-marathoner, and not an bay-area resident. Interesting datapoint.
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thedod: don't forget /irc-people ! :)
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back. I think I covered it all :)
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RT @erichansander: Fun weekend project: containerize #withknown using #Docker - done! @withknown @indiewebcamp https://github.com/ehdr/docker-known http…
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@Sharydow
@aral @thijs @jaffathecake How dare they use the same word than us? #indietech #indieweb #indiegame #indieart #indiemusic #indiesoda
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fiatjaf
how can -force- convince people to have their own website and put everything in there?
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@IndieMusicBot
RT @Sharydow: @aral @thijs @jaffathecake How dare they use the same word than us? #indietech #indieweb #indiegame #indieart #indiemusic #in…
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lol at that tweet
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tantek
fiatjaf what are you trying to force and why?
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fiatjaf
oh, forget about it.
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fiatjaf
I'm being silly.
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XgF
tantek: Thats the kind of post where I think maybe my Facebook friends would be interested (people who know me in person) but not my Twitter followers (people who have relatively common interests with me on the internet)
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@Freerange_Inc
Hands up if your a #indieweb company (or project team), based in the UK?
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XgF
should probably note for tantek's benefit that he's oshepherd @ SocialWG and elsewhere. My Freenode name is... for historical reasons
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@Freerange_Inc
Hands up if you're a #indieweb company (or project team), based in the UK?
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@Freerange_Inc
RT @benwerd: If you're motivated by #iamindie, check out the grassroots #indieweb movement: http://indiewebcamp.com
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tantek
so here's my question - why did the company that is ind.ie choose to use the name "indie", *knowing* that there were plenty of other overloaded uses of the term already, not the least of which was "indieweb" ?
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fiatjaf
tantek: the domain was available.
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@kevinmarks
RT @Freerange_Inc: Hands up if you're a #indieweb company (or project team), based in the UK?
(twitter.com/_/status/531942751495942144)
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kylewm
tantek: I think the non-cynical answer is he doesn't think indieweb goes far enough... like when people point out, sure you own your own domain but the server is hosted by Amazon so what have you really gained
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kylewm
(people were pointing that out to *him* after the launch)
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tantek
kylewm - for starters you gain that you own your data more than you do when its own Twitter - which, is incrementally more than all those "iamindie" tweets - they're not actually indie
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tantek
s/its own/it's on
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Loqi
tantek meant to say: kylewm - for starters you gain that you own your data more than you do when it's on Twitter - which, is incrementally more than all those "iamindie" tweets - they're not actually indie
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tantek
kylewm - and nothing says you have to use Amazon. You can be as "indie" as you want - your own server at home if you like.
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kylewm
OK well then the wires are owned by Comcast, or something
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tantek
minimizing dependencies to 2: your DNS provider, and your ISP
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kylewm
I think it is a "letting perfect be the enemy of the good" situation, either everything is free and open or nothing is
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tantek
agreed with that
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tantek
but scope was not the question
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tantek
the bad choice of overused/overloaded name was the question
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kylewm
like I think he wants to be the thing that underpins all that is indie
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aaronpk
he's gonna have to start an indie music label soon now too
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kylewm
cynical answer (and what I actually believe) is he wanted to capitalize on the success of indieweb and others by co-opting the name
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tantek
kylewm "he wants to be the thing that underpins all that is indie" <- and that is what I think is triggering the complaints of arrogance and ego-centrism.
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tantek
"all that is indie" predates indieweb, aral, or any of us
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tantek
and it is exceedingly arrogant to claim to be "the thing that underpins" "all that"
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tantek
as a result, I don't want to believe that explanation
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kylewm
tantek: agree that it is exceedingly arrogant (ignorant of history?), what do you think the explanation is then?
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tantek
kylewm: I haven't come up with a good explanation that doesn't assume some degree of malice or flawed self/ego-centrism, so I'm not willing to offer an explanation. I'm rejecting all the explanations I have come up with so far.
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tantek
I'm still trying to come up with an explanation based on good intentions + lack of information/knowledge rather than anything malicious or egocentric/arrogant.
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tantek
on another more productive topic
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tantek
I got an email about registration now open for OS Bridge 2015
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tantek
which is traditionally around the time we plan the main annual IndieWebCamp
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tantek
yet this past year aaronpk (and others?) noted being too tired from OSBridge to be as productive at IndieWebCamp, and wondered if we could plan IndieWebCamp *not* adjacent to OS Bridge (2015-06-23..26)
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aaronpk
I think we tossed around the idea of doing it the weekend *before* OSBridge
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aaronpk
but I'm not necessarily tied to that idea either
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tantek
we have candidate dates then
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tantek
let's start capturing those
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aaronpk
that would be June 20-21
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kylewm
tantek: aaronpk: do you think it'll be split east/west again?
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tantek
kylewm: I think the question is *how* many cities, not if
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tantek
I know Jeremy wants to host in NYC again
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bear
count me in for NYC or Boston or anywhere really on the east coast
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tantek
aaronpk - hoping you can help co-organize again! Add yourself: http://indiewebcamp.com/2015#Organizers
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bear - good point! I should add candidate locations
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tantek - and that co-org help also comes with some &yet sponsorship
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i'll fix the double-bear for NY
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send one of those bears out here!
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bear
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have at it folks
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tantek
kylewm: were you thinking you could help co-organize?
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tantek
or participate in some locations?
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tantek
feel free to add cities that you could participate in
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tantek
of possible interest to those who "blog" in Markdown: http://www.leenau.com/2014/11/09/hreview-microformats-in-markdown/
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tantek
a one-off way to encode a microformat in markdown
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bear
reads with interest
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kylewm
tantek: yes but also trying to figure out how to ask without sounding like a jerk, what's the rationale for having separate IWCs simultaneously
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bear
get people like me who have trouble travelling far distances to participate
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bear
a train ride to NY I can swing any weekend - flying to SF or Portland requires a lot more effort
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tantek
kylewm - the short answer is - because people stepped up to organize
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tantek
IWC East happened because Jeremy Zilar wanted to host an IWC in NYC simultanesouly with the one in Portland
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tantek
IWC Farther East happened because bnvk wanted to host on IWC in Berlin simultaneously
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tantek
so I suppose the rationale is - because someone took the initiative and wanted to, and it seemed more in the "indie" spirit as well as *decentralized* spirit to encourage and enable multiple locations
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tantek
wonders if that's worth an FAQ
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just to be clear -- i'm not at all saying there shouldn't be as many IWCs as there want to be
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bear
at least a mention at the top of /2015
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tantek
bear if you think that hReview via markdown article is worthy of consideration, please add to /Markdown. As I'm not a markdown user I didn't know how to evaluabe the merits of their proposal.
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bear
I was pondering taht - I use a simliar method in my jinja2 templates
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tantek + kylewm: I think it would be neat if the different IWCs collaborated and did something like "shared sessions" with some video conferencing or something to connect the different IWCs while still letting each one provide their own unique experiences, too.
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bear
we could make sure certain "domain experts" are known so everyone could make use of them
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bear
something like "HTTPS Hour with bear and ..." or some such
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mko
Satellite IWCs basically where someone would host the main IWC at one location and the satellite IWCs would have their own experiences but still able to participate in some of the main IWC (perhaps like having the keynote presentation streamed to all Satellite IWCs).
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bear++
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Loqi
bear has 45 karma
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bear
the dilemma with large time zone swings was being able to participate in another cities remote session
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tantek
mko - we did that this past year --> "neat if the different IWCs collaborated and did something like "shared sessions" with some video conferencing or something to connect the different IWCs while still letting each one provide their own unique experiences, too"
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Oh, well, there you go.
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tantek
clearly we didn't document it well enough ;)
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did others have better luck with the shared sessions? (maybe in the big room in portland?)