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Adding Webmentions to Jekyll by James Gallagher (jamesg.blog)

A few days ago, I remarked that I have not added webmentions to this blog because they would add too much overhead to the build time. When I wrote this post, I was thinking about only one way to add webmentions to my Jekyll site. I was thinking about a Jekyll plugin that retrieves all of my webmenti…

Welcome to the wonderful world of webmentions James! Well, you’ve been here for quite some time already, collecting the webmentions. But it’s great to see you took the time to find a solution that works for you and is suited to your needs. It may not work for others, which is great. Because you share your code, others can build upon it and create their own solution. Which leads to a richer and more diverse ecosystem of solutions to get, send, show and share webmentions. It might get messy, but that’s life.

Off the top of my head, I’d probably filter out all “likes” and “bookmarks” if I had those issues and only display comments.

You might consider showing likes and bookmarks in a different manner, with facepiles or other creative ways. But then again, it’s all up to you!

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https://doubleloop.net/2019/10/24/i-wonder-if-it-posted-just/ by Neil MatherNeil Mather (doubleloop.net)

Neil, thanks for your background explanation. I found out by trial and error that yes indeed, omit the title and make it a note, your full post (up to 500 characters) will be syndicated to Mastodon. I realized syndication != promotion. When I write an article, I don’t want to syndicate it on Mastodon ("here’s my toot, discuss") but rather promote it ("here’s my article, click and visit my site"). So besides POSSE and PESOS we might also need POPOS. Post on your Own site Promote on Other Silo’s 😉

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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.

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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.