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Carrying on the sporadic series (here are parts one and two), this is my next tinkering around with a means to connect a WordPress-based IndieWeb site to the Fediverse.

For my hackday project at IWC Utrecht I set up Matthias’ ActivityPub plugin that fully fedifies your WordPress site. It’s dead simple and most excellent.

Yes way!

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Bridging the IndieWeb and the Fediverse, part 3 – WordPress ActivityPub plugin

Replied to https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/05/7053/ by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)

Can Granary.io also turn Twitter #topic streams into a feed? I seem to only see examples of personal twitter timeline—>feed. I never look at my timeline really, mostly have #topic columns alerts in my Tweetdeck columns e.g

You can, yes. Your link will be something like:

https://granary.io/twitter/@me/thetopic/@app/?format=html&access_token_key=thetoken&access_token_secret=thesecret

I used to follow individual accounts from Twitter using granary (https://doubleloop.net/2019/03/12/following-twitter-peeps-in-an-indiereader-with-granary-io-and-microsub/), however I realised from discussion with Ryan (https://snarfed.org, who makes granary.io) that doing that puts unnecessary load on granary and your microsub server. However, doing it via twitter ‘lists’ is OK.

I like the idea of thinking about IndieWeb from an environmental sustainability perspective. There was a session at IWC Berlin about green hosting. We could additionally think about ways in which we can support older hardware for longer, better than the big silos. Low resource requirements, long-term browser support, etc. Not saying that all sites should do so, but with IndieWeb an individual will have the option to.
Whew – on the train back to London now after the overnight ferry.

The ferry was a fun experience, but I think I’d probably go with Eurostar next time. Aside from it just being good fun, my rationale with the ferry was that going overnight I’d get more time each day and save on accommodation, but in reality you spend so much time getting to/from the ferry terminal, and you get woken up so early on the ferry anyway you could just as easily get a really early train and it’d work out roughly the same.

Day 2 of IWC Utrecht was hack day. Some great stuff – an indieweb search engine, an OPML to Microsub importer, a look at Yarns, lots of geo data stuff, actual blog post writing and book reading tracking.

I installed Matthias’ WordPress ActivityPub plugin and initial tests suggest that it works great – to the extent that I think I’m going to set it up on my main site when I get chance.

I’ll write some full blog posts about Utrecht and my hack day project when I get some downtime.

#IndieWeb

Utrecht -> Rotterdam!

Looking forward to checking out Rotterdam. Second biggest city in Holland after Amsterdam, with Utrecht being the 4th. Interested to see the contrast between the two.

Rotterdam suffered the most during WWII, so I expect the architecture will be more modern. Probably a more urban, less bohemian vibe. Let’s see!

Also I believe some parts of Rotterdam are 6m below sea level, so I imagine there will be a lot of dykes (somewhere)