I've just finished sprinkling some microformats2 tags on my homepage (https://moule.world) to make my own h-card! Now software that supports reading h-cards can get a quick overview of what MOULE and MOULE WORLD is. I'll see if I can set up webmentions next.

https://indieweb.org/h-card

Given that the biggest obstacle to the adoption of microformats is the lack of programs that actually implement them, I have been toying with the idea of writing some useful programs that work with all the information we put onto our websites.

It's frustrating that we're at a point where the bottleneck of the Semantic Web ideal is not actually a low amount of structured information, but the lack of any program to do anything interesting whatsoever with it!

Who cares if we all use the HTML5 tag on our sites, if there is no browser that actually provides a "contact webmaster" button in the sidebar?

Who cares if we all mark up our cooking recipes as perfectly detailed machine readable h-recipe entries, if there is zero cooking apps or whatever actually capable of using any of the data we provide?

Who cares if we all use h-cards and h-feeds and whatnot if there is no feed reader that can actually notify us when our friends posted a new blog entry?

Parsing #microformats2 is sooooo hard.

Ha! I’m again able to have *my silly website* “boost” “Fediverse posts.”

I mark these up using #microformats2 – which after parsing look like this: https://pin13.net/mf2/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjan.boddez.net%2Fnotes%2F786b644f01 – and have my “ActivityPub sender” pick that up, so that instead of a “Create” activity, it POSTs an “Announce.”

I’d previously implemented this as an addon for #WordPress’ #ActivityPub plugin and now have it working for my #Laravel site, too.

Spent some of my afternoon attempting to better implement #MicroFormats2 and schema.org #MicroData into my blog.

I think I've done a reasonable job (according to the various parsers I can check) but all in all it's just made my head hurt for no tangible benefit I can glean.

It shouldn't be this tricky right?

@jason If you go the #IndieWeb route and use a #WordPress theme with #microformats2, https://brid.gy by @snarfed.org and others can either syndicate (#POSSE) your posts to a #Mastodon account, or you can use https://fed.brid.gy and make your site into a direct #fediverse server and account that people can follow.

The #ActivityPub plugin by @pfefferle does the latter too and I think it can support multiple accounts per WordPress site.

Bridgy Fed

»Bridgy Fed turns your web site into its own #fediverse account, visible in #Mastodon and beyond. You can post, reply, like, repost, and follow […] by posting on your site with #microformats2 and sending #webmentions. Bridgy Fed translates those posts to fediverse protocols like #ActivityPub and OStatus, and sends fediverse interactions back to your site as webmentions.«

»[It] takes some technical know-how to set up« — true, but still: Wow & nice

https://fed.brid.gy/docs

#IndieWeb question:

Can I build two h-feeds as follows:

- Articles, Notes, Replies, Photo
- Likes, Reposts

Is there a restriction on each feed only containing one type of post?