2024/SD/syndication

Syndication was a session at IndieWebCamp San Diego 2024.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/syndication

TODO: add video once archived

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IndieWebCamp SD 2024
Session: Syndication
When: 2024-12-07 15:50

Participants

• David Shanske (session facilitator)
• Anthony Ciccarello
• gRegor Morrill
• Peter Kaminski
• ilovecomputers
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Background

• Part of Your World: How to Integrate your Site with the Places People Are - #partofyourworld
• What, where, why, how.
• ActivityPub, Bluesky/ATProto
• Instagram

Notes

Use-case: conversation around what I'm saying

• David Shanske: I want to be productive, and people engaging with what I'm doing makes me more productive.
  • Would like to avoid the LiveJournal backfill auto-syndication of all backfilled posts live publicly which some were supposed to be private.

• Anthony Ciccarello Using Bridgy Fed for Mastodon and Bluesky
  • Great for replying to mastodon posts
  • Have defaults for if different post types show up in a main feed but can be overriden
  • Reviews generally aren't in the main feed but some might be able to stand on their own
  • ilovecomputers you'll run into issues if you rename yourself to your domain: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1074

• Tantek Çelik strava has options to "mute" activity in the main/group feeds
• David Shanske Micro.blog doesn't support all post types so you might not want to syndicate
  • gRegor Morrill Micro.blog is fairly forgiving
  • Mastodon also has limitations about what post types are supported
  • Can control syndication per post type
  • Tantek Çelik but even still, most platforms still support a plaintext version

• David Shanske: use-case: inviting more conversation

• David Shanske: I want people to see and find my stuff
• Tantek Çelik: is this for people to see real-time, like in a reader/newsfeed, or to find eventually or ever, like from a web search?
• David Shanske: both. anything within the week for me is somewhat real time. also had an example where someone found a post from years ago and commented on it.

• gRegor Morrill Goodreads reviews have a checkbox "Add to update feed" which is checked by default. If checked, review will show up on your profile page.

• Anthony Ciccarello have seen that where someone mentions something of mine in their weekly round-up
• Most people won't assume they can subscribe to a website via ActivityPub/Mastodon, so making those options clearer can help gain readership
• People like that they can get personal interactions from platforms like Mastodon

• Anthony Ciccarello would like to POSSE to Instagram since that's where his family is

Clearview mentioned: https://indieweb.org/2020/West/Demos

See Also

• 2024/SD/Schedule