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Happy 12 years of https://indieweb.org/POSSE #POSSE and
19 years of https://microformats.org/ #microformats! (as of yesterday, the 20th)
A few highlights from the past year:
POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) has grown steadily as a common practice in the #IndieWeb community, personal sites, CMSs (like Withknown, which itself reached 10 years in May!), and services (like https://micro.blog) for over a decade.
In its 12th year, POSSE broke through to broader technology press and adoption beyond the community. For example:
* David Pierce’s (@pierce@mas.to) excellent article @TheVerge.com (@verge@mastodon.social): “The poster’s guide to the internet of the future” (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon):
“Your post appears natively on all of those platforms, typically with some kind of link back to your blog. And your blog becomes the hub for everything, your main home on the internet.
Done right, POSSE is the best of all posting worlds.”
* David also recorded a 29 minute podcast on POSSE with some great interviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posters-guide-to-the-new-internet/id430333725?i=1000632256014
* Cory Doctorow (@craphound.com @doctorow@mamot.fr) declared in his Pluralistic blog (@pluralisticmamot.fr) post: “Vice surrenders” (https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/):
“This is the moment for POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere [sic]), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control”
* And none other than Molly White (@mollywhite.net @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io) of @web3isgoinggreat.com (@web3isgreat@indieweb.social) built, deployed, and started actively using her own POSSE setup as described in her post titled “POSSE” (https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403091817) to:
"… write posts in the microblog and automatically crosspost them to Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky, while keeping the original post on my site."
Congrats Molly and well done!
In its 19th year, the microformats formal #microformats2 syntax and popular vocabularies h-card, h-entry, and h-feed, kept growing across IndieWeb (micro)blogging services and software like CMSs & SSGs both for publishing, and richer peer-to-peer social web interactions via #Webmention.
Beyond the IndieWeb, the rel=me microformat, AKA #relMe, continues to be adopted by services to support #distributed #verification, such as these in the past year:
* Meta Platforms #Threads user profile "Link" field¹
* #Letterboxd user profile website field²
For both POSSE and microformats, there is always more we can do to improve their techniques, technologies, and tools to help people own their content and identities online, while staying connected to friends across the web.
Got suggestions for this coming year? Join us in chat:
* https://chat.indieweb.org/dev
* https://chat.indieweb.org/microformats
for discussions about POSSE and microformats, respectively.
Previously: https://tantek.com/2023/171/t1/anniversaries-microformats-posse
This is post 15 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
← https://tantek.com/2024/151/t1/minimum-interesting-service-worker
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Post glossary:
CMS
https://indieweb.org/CMS
h-card
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card
h-entry
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
h-feed
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed
microformats2 syntax
https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing
rel-me
https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me
SSG
https://indieweb.org/SSG
Webmention
https://indieweb.org/Webmention
Withknown
https://indieweb.org/Known
References:
¹ https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me
² https://indieweb.org/rel-me#Letterboxd
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The Library of Infinite Loan is a physical world practice I conceived of many many years ago¹, implemented in minimal prototype form 5+ years ago², shared a summary with the #IndieWeb community at least four years ago at the #IndieWebCamp Austin in 2020³ and last year in IndieWeb chat⁴, so it’s about time⁵ I wrote it down.
Summary: lend a #book from your personal library⁶ to a friend, on the conditions that they do not donate sell or dispose of it, and instead when they are done with it they return it or lend it to someone else who agrees to these conditions.
My goal was to create a book lending system that:
* preserves books — effectively in a giant #distributed communal #library
* makes lending easier fiscally, psychologically, emotionally for both parties
* encourages direct person-to-person lending without intermediaries
* grows a culture of non-zero-sum sharing, preservation, and longterm thinking
The basic steps to create a Library of Infinite Loan:
1. Create a separate space (like a particular bookshelf) for #books to infinite lend. A small shelf in a guest room or common space like a hallway works well.
2. Move books there that you are ok lending out and never seeing again
3. Label that space your “Library of Infinite Loan”, or invite guests to borrow from your “Library of Infinite Loan”
4. When visitors ask what that means, explain the Rules
Rules for borrowing from a Library of Infinite Loan (“the Rules”)
1. Keep it as long as you like
2. Do not sell donate or otherwise dispose of it
3. You may give it
a. back to the person you borrowed from
b. or back to its original purchaser if they wrote their name and web address inside
c. or (lend it) to someone else who agrees to the Rules
There are several ways to extend / expand the Library of Infinite Loan:
* custom book plate: design a custom book plate for yourself with room for your name (and web address) on it e.g. “From Tantek’s (@tantek.com) Library” (with space), print it on longterm adhesive paper, and place it inside new books you purchase. When you move a book to your Library of Infinite Loan, amend the book plate to say ”… Library of Infinite Loan” and attach a copy of the Rules.
* add a “borrowers log” with blank lines for anyone you lend it to or they lend it to, transitively, to optionally add their name, web address, and a date of borrowing. Then amend the rules to allow returning a book to who you borrowed from or anyone in the borrower log or original purchaser.
* more media: CDs, vinyl records, DVDs, LaserDiscs, VHS, cassette tapes, video game cartridges etc.
* other things
* large tools — which usually come in a box with instruction manual, so there’s a logical place to put an “owners plate”, “borrowers log”, and copy of the rules.
* artwork — a great way to rotate art among a community
This is what I remember off the top of my head and with a little web searching. I know I have a bunch more notes in various places of my thoughts (and conversations) over the years about a Library of Infinite Loan. As I find those notes, I’ll post them as well.
#infiniteLoan #libraryOfInfiniteLoan
References:
¹ I’m looking through old personal logs for earliest mentions of “infinite loan”
² In my 2019 personal log I found a note that I “moved some books as library of infinite loan to guest room” where I had previously setup a small bookshelf for such books.
³ https://indieweb.org/2020/Austin/reading
⁴ https://chat.indieweb.org/2023-10-01#t1696202307311300
⁵ I was also inspired by sharing the idea again to a couple of friends in an espresso-making livestream this morning
⁶ https://indieweb.org/personal_library
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No large language models (LLM) were used in the production of this post.
Inspired by a subtle but clear sign-of-the-times one-line disclaimer at the end of RFC9518’s Acknowledgments (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9518.html#appendix-A-4)
“No large language models were used in the production of this document.”
I have added a similar disclaimer to the footer of my homepage:
“No large language models were used in the production of this site.”
2023 was certainly a year that LLMs took off and stole the hypecycle from #metaverse and #blockchain before that.
Yet unlike those previous two, #LLMs are already having real impacts on the way people create (from emails to art), communicate (LLM chat apps), and work (2023 Writer’s Strike), fueling growing concerns about the authenticity of content, especially content from human authors.
I expect we will see more such disclaimers in the future.
For now, if you blog on your own site with words written by you not #ChatGPT or a similar tool, I encourage you to add a similar disclaimer, and then add your site as an example to the #IndieWeb wiki:
* https://indieweb.org/LLM#IndieWeb_Examples
#largeLanguageModel #LLM #generativeAI #AI
There is the related problem of, when you discover what seems to be an independent site written by a human, how do you know that human actually exists?
For now I’ll mention that XFN rel=met links, published (e.g. metrolls / met-rolls), aggregated, indexed, and queried, can solve that problem. This will be similar to how XFN rel=me links solved #distributed verification on the web (see https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me and posts it links to).
This is day 48 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days
← Day 47: https://tantek.com/2023/365/t1/capture-first-edit-publish-later
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Post glossary:
blockchain
https://indieweb.org/blockchain
large language model / LLM
https://indieweb.org/large_language_model
metaverse
https://indieweb.org/metaverse
rel=me
https://indieweb.org/rel-me
rel=met
http://gmpg.org/xfn/11#met
XFN
https://gmpg.org/xfn/
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Two anniversaries today: microformats (18y) and POSSE (11y).
Happy 18 years of https://microformats.org/ #microformats!
Most prominent this past year (again) has been the littlest #microformat that could:
rel=me — AKA #relme, now effectively the standard for #distributed #verification on the web:
* https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me (originally introduced in 2004¹)
with support added in the past year for:
* #GitHub multiple rel-me links²
* #Wikipedia User page rel-me link³
, which is surprising since when it was conceived, the #IndieWeb community was in a period of very rapid innovation & iteration.
POSSE itself replaced a previous term, "POSE", short for “Publish Once Syndicate Everywhere”, which had only been around a year or two at most (I’m still looking for the first use of the "POSE" abbreviation for that meaning).
Since “publish once” was vague enough to include practices of publishing once on a social media silo, or in someone else’s garage⁵, we needed to clearly express the requirement to use your own site instead, first, as the source of your truth. Cross-posting to other sites & channels, is a second, optional step, ideally with a permalink linking back to your original post so viewers can easily discover and use your site.
That distinction was enough for POSSE to express a strong creator-owned-first publishing model that resonated and grew. Every time a silo shutdown⁶ at the end of its incredible journey⁷, removing posts & permalinks from the web, POSSE was there for people who were tired of losing their data, permalinks, & profiles, and wanted an alternative.
This is day 43 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days
← Day 42: https://tantek.com/2023/160/t1/mastodon-activitypub-follow-form-bridgy-fed
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Glossary
permalink
https://indieweb.org/permalink
POSE
https://indieweb.org/POSE
POSSE
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
silo
https://indieweb.org/silo
References
¹ https://gmpg.org/xfn/11#me
² https://tantek.com/2023/032/t1/years-relmeauth-replace-openid
³ https://tantek.com/2023/139/t1/wikipedia-supports-indieweb-rel-me
⁴ https://tantek.com/2012/173/t1/posse-core-indieweb-approach
⁵ https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
⁶ https://indieweb.org/site-deaths
⁷ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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I just installed #GNU Jami onto this @ubuntu_mate machine. https://social.mayfirst.org/url/1918521 #VOIP #Distributed #Conferencing #communications My username is Dave_H as yet, I have no contacts. Who wants to be my first experimental subject? Hahahaha. FYI, the project used to be known as #GNU Ring. I was able to make my account with no assistance, though found a few unlabeled controls, and a couple of toggles that had to be reached and activated using orca's flat review to emulate mouse clicks. #a11y #blindness #blind