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While I haven’t had much time over the last year or so to spend actually writing code for DiSo, I’ve been really interested in the new direction Tantek has been taking things with his DiSo 2.0 concepts. Many of the early efforts in DiSo were focused just on how to move social data around the web (data formats, protocols, authentication mechanisms, etc). Tantek is taking a slightly different approach to this by first emphasizing the importance of data ownership. It’s not enough to simply pull in a copy of your content from social networks into your local repository. In order to truly own your data, the original should be on your site, and then copies pushed out to whatever social networks, with links pointing back to the original where appropriate. It may sound like a purely academic distinction, but it’s the difference between sharecropping and homesteading.

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Well, sheesh. I opened a little can of worms when sharing Miriam's "Am I on the IndieWeb yet?" with a short post bemoaning my own trouble getting on the

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This article will explain how the blog is organized at a technical level, and show how I implemented various IndieWeb features. Table of Contents: Motivation Structure and Deployment Static search index Running scripts via GitHub Actions Social media syndication and the “shortform” section Links to syndicated versions at the end of each post Warning for a too-long first paragraph Triggering this workflow automatically after deployment Blogroll (the “What I’m Reading” page) Chrome extension Webmentions and referencing external discussion threads Bridgy Hacker News backlinks Outgoing webmentions DOIs Dead link checker Motivation Earlier this year I migrated this blog off Wordpress to the Hugo static site generator.

Andy Sylvester wrote me asking about my digital garden: I followed links to your site from Dave Winer’s Scripting News site, your digital garden site is cool! I am interested in what theme yo…