XFN
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XFN (XHTML Friends Network) is the network of visible links across blogs that claim various XFN relationships with/to each other. The name is a tongue-in-cheek self-deprecating parody of the "Psychic Friends Network".
IndieWeb Examples
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Besides rel-me (see that page for examples of that), the following IndieWeb Examples use XFN rel values on links to indicate relationships.
- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Past Examples
Tom Morris published a blogroll with https://gmpg.org/xfn/11 XFN rel values
- Page is 404 as of 2020-02-22
Rel-me examples
Numerous examples of publishing and consuming XFN's rel=me value can be found on the rel-me page:
- Browser Support (browser extensions)
- Software Support (e.g. Mastodon, Pixelfed)
- Service Support (e.g. micro.blog, indielogin.com)
Other Examples
Some older examples can be found on the microformats wiki:
Brainstorming
following
There is an XFN extension proposal to add rel=following as a way to indicate which URLs in your blogroll that you are following, independent of whether you have a social or other human relationship with them.
- See: https://microformats.org/wiki/following for more details.
See Also
- friending
- rel-me
- http://microformats.org/wiki/xfn
- https://gmpg.org/xfn/11
- working archive of XFN home page via internet archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130202010341id_/http://gmpg.org/xfn/
- XEN 1.0 relationships meta data profile aka XHTML Enemies Network (a satire site)
- https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1754786993870147658
It’s never too late. Cc @t
- 2008 Google I/O talk mentioning XFN: Using the Social Graph API