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https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/05/6586/ by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)

Rocketchat looks rather good as a Slack replacement! Open source, data on our own server. It has an import function for Slack exports so now that we have set up our own rocket chat server (named slack to make the switch easy on the mind), I’m importing all our Slack content over. Much better than …

Hey Ton, ik heb al meer goeds gehoord over Rocketchat als vervanger van Slack. Wat me bij deze diensten toch erg interesseert is de kosten van overstap voor de overige gebruikers. Met name de mentale overstap. Ik kan me voorstellen dat je huidige conversatiepartners in Slack zelf ook meer Slack-koppelingen hebben. Dan is het handig om alles bij elkaar in één Slack app te hebben. Rocketchat voelt dan als "weer een extra app" wat transitie en acceptatie lastiger kan maken. Ik ben benieuwd hoe je daar mee om gaat!

Reply to Aaron on the use of Twitter image metadata

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Wat wil ik doen op IndieWebCamp Utrecht? by Frank MeeuwsenFrank Meeuwsen (Digging the Digital)

Thanks Aaron, for your pointers to the discussion with Chris on the use of the Twitter:image metatag. I use the Yoast SEO plugin and this gives me the opportunity to upload or choose a specific image for the Summary Large Image card. Otherwise it takes the Featured Image from my blogpost. But here’s the thing, I want my blog to be more of a commonplace book where I can quickly jot down thoughts and ideas, share bookmarks and connect ideas. I want to stay in the flow of writing and sharing and not have to think about finding a proper image, uploading it, selecting etc. Also, most of the times, the note or bookmark is that short, an extra image would just be overkill for the information.

But…Since I use the Syndication Links plugin from David Shanske, my post are also shared on Twitter (I don’t really care about other silo’s for now). This is defaulted to the Summary Large Image card. But when there is no image, it just shows an ugly icon.

So here’s the idea: When I post something without the Twitter:image metatag, take some random image from a collection I previously uploaded and use one of those for the card on Twitter. Or take an image based on the sort of post I choose from Post Kinds, another fabulous plugin by David.

I could also get a random image from Unsplash, based on keywords in the post. Or maybe get a featured image or first image from the bookmarked site.

These are some ideas I want to discuss and explore on the IndieWebCamp.

Re:Flooding the culture

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Flooding the Culture (kickscondor.com)

I love the ‘parallel universe’ she refers to—that’s our unruly, unpredictable Web—an extension of the underground scenes, of the avant-garde, the mixtape traders, the world of the only critics that matter: our little group of friends.

I love how Kick’s Condor urges us to look beyond the digital Main Street of our times. Every city has it’s Main Street, with the Big Name Brand Stores and shoppingmalls. The place where the tourists go but where any local only wants to go when s/he really needs to. Or at least doesn’t go there when you know it’s overcrowded.

Every city has their own back alleys. The little streets with mom-and-pop shops, with young entrepeneurs doing wild and exciting stuff with new products and services. You can find local entrepeneurs around town, using local goods and even offer you to pay with local city-bound currencies. Around town there are crative hubs with new bars, new forms of entertainment and new ideas how companies should and could cooperate with each other.

Every time I visit the latter sort of shops and streets I get excited about the possibilities, diversity and the future of the city as a whole.

Should I still make the analogy here with the Corporate Web as we know it, the social silo’s we can’t seem to leave and the importance of an open, liberated and freely accessible web? I guess not….

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Encountering our First Amazonians by an author (ruk.ca)

On the way down to the elevator in our hotel this morning I mentioned to Oliver that we were going to get coffee in a building where Amazon also has offices.
“Be careful what you say,” he said, “and don’t mention the New York situation.”
“You mean if we’re talking to anyone who works f…

“don’t mention the New York situation.” ???
I had to laugh in the crowded morning commute because of this remark. I also love the term Amazonians.

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Weekly Hacks (zylstra.org)

For 2019’s Q1 I want to do a ‘weekly hack’. There are many small odd jobs around the house, on my computer, our network, or in my workflows. They often are in my todo lists, but never get done, simply because they never have any urgency attached to them and so the rest of my life goes first. Y…

Dank je wel Ton! Dankzij jouw bericht op de Indieweb Chat en de link naar je eigen hack, heb ik mijn eigen probleem weer op weten te lossen.
Het blijkt dat de mogelijkheden voor het Indieweb op WordPress ook nog niet zo uitgewerkt zijn als we zouden hopen 🙂

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https://boffosocko.com/2019/03/13/55745912/ by Chris AldrichChris Aldrich (Chris Aldrich)

A big portion of my workflow relies on the Post Kinds Plugin and its available bookmarklet functionality.

Hi Chris, thanks for your thoughtful and kind reply. I appreciate you taking the time to point me in all the various directions on your site. I subscribed to the individual feeds of the tags, just to have specific notifications when something of interest pop ups on your radar on these topics. I think this is a great way to share and distribute knowledge and information on the open web, instead of just using hashtags and closed groups 😉

On the topic of the excellent Post Kinds plugin, I just found out it plays nice with the Yoast SEO plugin, which I use on my site as well. There was some sort of collision going on when both of them were activated, but this all seems to have been fixed. Which is great news for me, I love the Post Kinds and the possibilities of Omnibear, Quill and other Micropublish clients. A more granular way to write and post about specific topics is just excellent. Whether that’s chickens 😉 or in my case, craft beers. I might make my own Post Kind out of that one. Let’s see if I can populate it with my entries from the Untappd app!

Thanks again for your help in your reply and in all the other posts you’ve written for the Indieweb community.