POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.
▶️ watch Zach’s 1min* video intro to POSSE
Let your friends read your posts, their way. POSSE lets your friends keep using whatever they use to read your stuff (e.g. social media silos like Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, Neocities, etc.).
Stay in touch with friends now, not some theoretical future. POSSE is about staying in touch with current friends now, rather than the potential of staying in touch with friends in the future.
Friends are more important than federation. By focusing on relationships that matter to people rather than architectural ideals, from a human perspective, POSSE is more important than federation. Additionally, if federated approaches take a POSSE approach first, they will likely get better adoption (everyone wants to stay in touch with their friends), and thereby more rapidly approach that federated future.
POSSE is beyond blogging. It’s a key part of why and how the IndieWeb movement is different from just “everyone blog on their own site”, and also different from “everyone just install and run (YourFavoriteSocialSoftware)” etc. monoculture solutions.
POSSE is considered a robust and preferable syndication model for the following reasons:
Common POSSE practice is to link from POSSE copies to your original, using a permashortlink. Here are a few reasons why:
This section is for web developers implementing POSSE.
In general, when your content posting software posts something, it should also post a copy to the silo destinations of your choice, with an original post link (e.g. permashortlink or permashortcitation) back to your original.
The details of how to do so vary per destination. See the silo-specific sections below.
Once you have posted the copy to the silo, you should:
The best user interface (UI) is automatic, dependable, and invisible. If you can implement POSSEing in a way that always does exactly what you want, predictably, then no explicit UI is needed.
One way to provide more predictability and inspire confidence is to show what will be POSSEd (within the limitations of the destination) as a preview before publishing
(needs screenshot)
Twitter is perhaps the most popular POSSE destination and a good place to start.
If you can start posting notes (tweets) to your own site and POSSEing to Twitter, instead of posting directly to Twitter, you have taken a big step towards owning your data.
Details:
Barnaby Walters
Barnaby WaltersSee POSSE to Twitter for details on how to POSSE both notes and articles (blog posts) to Twitter.
There are two options for POSSEing to Facebook currently:
Chris Aldrich uses a WordPress plugin WordPress Crosspost to POSSE from a self-hosted WordPress install to WordPress.com.Some destinations (e.g. SMS or push notifications) may require a pure plain text representation.
Software and libraries to implement POSSE:
There’s at least two ways to implement a POSSE content posting flow:
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
The following IndieWebCamp participants’ sites support a POSSE architecture. If you have an implementation, add it, make screenshots or a screencast or blog about it and post the details/link here. In date order (earliest first) :
Tantek.com as of 2010-01-01[1] (2010-01-26 Twitter syndication started[2] and caught up[3][4]). Tantek Çelik implemented POSSE in Falcon on tantek.com.
Waterpigs.co.uk as of 2012-03-12. Barnaby Walters implemented POSSE over at waterpigs.co.uk
brennannovak.com as of 2012-07-01[5][6]. Brennan Novak implemented POSSE on his site brennannovak.com with copies posted to Twitter and Facebook
aaronparecki.com as of 2012-08-19[7][8]. Aaron Parecki implemented POSSE on his site aaronparecki.com with copies posted to Twitter containing permashortlinks back to originals on his own site.
User:Sandeep.io First post POSSE’d on 2012-11-05. I primarily syndicate to Twitter using a very lo-fi solution of adding silo (Facebook, Twiiter, Google+) provided share links to each post that I can manually click to prefill content, edit and post. I’ve avoided API integration because of the extensive experience I’ve had using Facebook API and dealing with it’s random changes. “Integration” has high costs sometimes so I keep it as simple as possible.
werd.io as of 2013-05-31 [9]. Ben Werdmuller implemented POSSE in his idno platform via plugins. New content has an associated Activity Streams object type; POSSE plugins listen for post events associated with those object types and syndicate appropriately.
glennjones.net as of 2014-01-14 Glenn Jones The blog implemented POSSE using a new version of transmat.io system. New content added to transmat is associated with objects types. A POSSE twitter plugins listens for post events syndicating content. At moment only notes are syndicated.
adactio.com as of 2014-05-27 Jeremy Keith has implemented POSSE using his own custom CMS.
shanehudson.net as of 2014-09-19 Shane Hudson has implemented POSSE to Twitter for Craft CMS.
http://www.ravisagar.in/blog/implementing-posse-my-site Implementing POSSE on my site as of 2018-02-21.
ludovic.chabant.com as of 2018-07-30 Ludovic Chabant has implement POSSE to Twitter and Mastodon from PieCrust CMS, using SiloRider
adamdawkins.uk as of 2019-01-16 Adam Dawkins has implemented POSSE using his own custom CMS.
shaun.net as of 2020-01-16 Shaun Ewing has implemented POSSE using Jekyll, and custom APIs.
capjamesg has been syndicating his notes from his own site to:
This syndication happens automatically whenever James posts a note using his Micropub client or his Microsub feed reader.
behindtheviewfinder.com as of 2026-01-12 has been syndicating his posts from his Ghost blog to:
This syndication happens automatically whenever Wojtek publishes a new posts using his self-hosted posse client.
… Add a link to your POSSE–enabled site and the date you started syndicating copies of your content out to 3rd party social sharing/publishing services.
Sites which only POSSE some of their content, and still post directly to the same silo they POSSE to.
Other partial POSSE sites:
COPE is short for Create Once, Publish Everywhere (COPE), which explicitly lacks a first “Publish Once” step, and thus is more about duplicating the content across various destinations.
Without a first “Publish Once” step on a site you “Own”, and thus lacking original post permalinks, the COPE strategy fails to actually draw people to any one canonical place to read/view your stuff, and thus all it does is grow (likely) disjoint audiences across other people’s sites.
Articles:
POSE, Publish Once Syndicate Everywhere, was a broader predecessor of POSSE that also included publishing once on one particular silo, and then syndicating out to other silos.
A similar but opposite approach is PESOS where content is posted first to 3rd party services and then copied/syndicated into a personal site.
If exact copies of content are posted on both a personal site and 3rd party services, there’s no way to tell (short of comparing possibly non-existent sub-second accurate published dates) whether a site is using POSSE or PESOS. Sites can provably support POSSE by including perma(short)links in syndicated copies that link/reference back to published originals.
PESETAS is like PESOS but copying/syndicating everything to a particular silo (without any involvement of a personal site).
For example, most silos support cross-posting to Twitter, thus you could connect everything to your Twitter account and always (auto-)cross-post there to keep a copy.
E.g. Tumblr has a UI for cross-posting to Twitter. See Webapps StackExchange post for documentation and screenshots of UI.
Tumblr is a better PESETAS destination however, since it is well established, allows for a wider variety of content, and allows more text, and links to URLs directly instead of linkwrapping them like Twitter does.
All of the above, and to date (2013-222), POSSE has solely described syndicating the Creation of content on your site (publishing) to other sites. This model has been quite successful and perhaps may be sufficient.
However, it is worth exploring the potential utility of a full CRUD protocol for POSSE.
Create is the POSSE default. You create content on your site, you POSSE your creates to other sites. All of this is described above, and in silo-specific details on silo pages.
Read as a verb is interesting when applied to POSSE.
At a minimum, it’s useful to implement storing links to syndicated copies of your content to provide for the future possibility of reading from downstream POSSE copies.
See:
Actual direct uses of Reading from downstream POSSE copies:
In addition, keeping a u-syndication link to the POSSE copy enables deleting it to perform an Update or a Delete action, as described in the following sections.
If a POSSE destination allows updates/edits, then when you edit your post, you could propagate that update to the downstream POSSE copy as well.
If the destination disallows updates/edits, like Twitter, it is still possible to virtually POSSE updates by deleting the POSSE tweet and reposting, i.e.:
Consider only POSSEing updates to Twitter:
All of these concerns are regarding the experience that you provide to your friends reading your tweets on Twitter, which of course should be the whole (design) reason you’re bothering to POSSE to Twitter in the first place.
For details, see silo-specific POSSE sections:
Deletes seem fairly straightforward to POSSE, especially to services which themselves propagate deletes to clients.
E.g. one can delete a note on Twitter at any point.
Similar to updates, consider:
However, if you really feel like deleting the content from your site and POSSE copies (e.g. on Twitter), go ahead and do so.
Perhaps this is an opportunity for the UI for the deletion of a post to check to see if there’s been any activity (replies, favorites, retweets) on the POSSE copy before performing the delete. One possible implementation could involve the UI informing the user of this activity (or lack of it) and reconfirming the delete request on a per-service basis.
Grant Richmond supports POSSE deletes on twitter as of 2018-10-10, by checking if a post on his site has been unpublished / deleted and sending the appropriate api request for likes, reposts and notes.Q: Do we need to worry about search engines penalizing apparently duplicate posts?
A: That’s why the POSSE copies SHOULD always link back to the originals. So that search engines can infer that the copies are just copies. Ideally POSSE copies on silos should use rel-canonical to link back to the originals, but even without explicit rel-canonical, the explicit link back to the original is a strong hint that it is an original.
This is also an advantage of POSSE over PESOS. With PESOS – there’s no way to tell what’s the original and what’s the copy – so they do look like duplicates.
Q: Brid.gy can use posse-post-discovery to find the relationship between a syndicated post and the original when there is not explicit link. Does this mean I should stop adding backlinks to syndicated copies?
A: POSSEing without a backlink is considered a last resort, and has some costs associated with it. See posse-post-discovery#Tradeoffs for more details.
In short, POSSE first, then send webmentions.
See: Webmention FAQ: POSSE or Send Webmentions First for details and reasoning.
Related conceptually:
Articles and blog posts about POSSE, especially implementing it:
[…] this nudges publishers toward an idea that’s big in the IndieWeb movement: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (or POSSE for short).
The idea is to own the canonical copy of the content on your own site but then to send that content everywhere you can. Or rather, everywhere you want to reach your readers. Facebook Instant Article? Sure, hook up the RSS feed. Apple News? Send the feed over there, too. AMP? Sure, generate an AMP page. No need to stop there—tap the new Medium API and half a dozen others as well.
Reading is a fragmented experience. Some people will love reading on the Web, some via RSS in their favorite reader, some in Facebook Instant Articles, some via AMP pages on Twitter, some via Lynx in their terminal running on a restored TRS-80 (seriously, it can be done. See below). The beauty of the POSSE approach is that you can reach them all from a single, canonical source.
[…]
For the Web’s sake, let’s hope Google sticks with AMP long enough to convince publishers that the real future is speeding up their own pages and embracing a POSSE-style approach.
As discussed #indieweb it is also possible POSSE your git repositories to git “silos”, such as GitHub or GitLab. An easy way of doing this was described by Christian Weiske at [12].
I try not to get locked into anyone else’s walled garden. I … pursue this publishing strategy they call POSSE, post own site syndicate everywhere …
Write on your own blogs, syndicate elsewhere.
Own your content! There’s nothing like it.” @SaraSoueidan June 23, 2022
Tantek Çelik: POSSE advantages are largely distribution (immediately) and discovery (over time). if neither of those two are happening, then it’s not worth keeping it around. Date-time-proof-of-posting can be solved by sending your original post (or a POSSE/tweet copy) to the Internet Archive and does not require keeping the POSSE/tweet copy.We’ll see how long it lasts. We’ll see how long any of them last. Today’s social media darlings are tomorrow’s Friendster and MySpace.
When the current crop of services wither and die, my own website will still remain in full bloom.
This is the moment for POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control
I just finally deployed something I’ve been working on for a few weeks now: a feed of my writing, posting, reading, and other various activity that lives on my website at https://www.mollywhite.net/feed
“Starting day 2 of #btconf with Laura Kalbag and some #indieweb vibes.”
@flokosiol May 14, 2024
with embedded photo of Laura presenting a text slide on a stage:
Social media etiquette:
Post to your own site first, then mirror those posts to third-party platforms.
— a rephrasing of POSSE.
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POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.
▶️ watch Zach’s 1min* video intro to POSSE
Let your friends read your posts, their way. POSSE lets your friends keep using whatever they use to read your stuff (e.g. social media silos like Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, Neocities, etc.).
Stay in touch with friends now, not some theoretical future. POSSE is about staying in touch with current friends now, rather than the potential of staying in touch with friends in the future.
Friends are more important than federation. By focusing on relationships that matter to people rather than architectural ideals, from a human perspective, POSSE is more important than federation. Additionally, if federated approaches take a POSSE approach first, they will likely get better adoption (everyone wants to stay in touch with their friends), and thereby more rapidly approach that federated future.
POSSE is beyond blogging. It’s a key part of why and how the IndieWeb movement is different from just “everyone blog on their own site”, and also different from “everyone just install and run (YourFavoriteSocialSoftware)” etc. monoculture solutions.
POSSE is considered a robust and preferable syndication model for the following reasons:
Common POSSE practice is to link from POSSE copies to your original, using a permashortlink. Here are a few reasons why:
This section is for web developers implementing POSSE.
In general, when your content posting software posts something, it should also post a copy to the silo destinations of your choice, with an original post link (e.g. permashortlink or permashortcitation) back to your original.
The details of how to do so vary per destination. See the silo-specific sections below.
Once you have posted the copy to the silo, you should:
The best user interface (UI) is automatic, dependable, and invisible. If you can implement POSSEing in a way that always does exactly what you want, predictably, then no explicit UI is needed.
One way to provide more predictability and inspire confidence is to show what will be POSSEd (within the limitations of the destination) as a preview before publishing
(needs screenshot)
Twitter is perhaps the most popular POSSE destination and a good place to start.
If you can start posting notes (tweets) to your own site and POSSEing to Twitter, instead of posting directly to Twitter, you have taken a big step towards owning your data.
Details:
See POSSE to Twitter for details on how to POSSE both notes and articles (blog posts) to Twitter.
There are two options for POSSEing to Facebook currently:
Chris Aldrich uses a WordPress plugin WordPress Crosspost to POSSE from a self-hosted WordPress install to WordPress.com.Some destinations (e.g. SMS or push notifications) may require a pure plain text representation.
Software and libraries to implement POSSE:
There’s at least two ways to implement a POSSE content posting flow:
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
The following IndieWebCamp participants’ sites support a POSSE architecture. If you have an implementation, add it, make screenshots or a screencast or blog about it and post the details/link here. In date order (earliest first) :
Tantek.com as of 2010-01-01[1] (2010-01-26 Twitter syndication started[2] and caught up[3][4]). Tantek Çelik implemented POSSE in Falcon on tantek.com.
Waterpigs.co.uk as of 2012-03-12. Barnaby Walters implemented POSSE over at waterpigs.co.uk
brennannovak.com as of 2012-07-01[5][6]. Brennan Novak implemented POSSE on his site brennannovak.com with copies posted to Twitter and Facebook
aaronparecki.com as of 2012-08-19[7][8]. Aaron Parecki implemented POSSE on his site aaronparecki.com with copies posted to Twitter containing permashortlinks back to originals on his own site.
User:Sandeep.io First post POSSE’d on 2012-11-05. I primarily syndicate to Twitter using a very lo-fi solution of adding silo (Facebook, Twiiter, Google+) provided share links to each post that I can manually click to prefill content, edit and post. I’ve avoided API integration because of the extensive experience I’ve had using Facebook API and dealing with it’s random changes. “Integration” has high costs sometimes so I keep it as simple as possible.
werd.io as of 2013-05-31 [9]. Ben Werdmuller implemented POSSE in his idno platform via plugins. New content has an associated Activity Streams object type; POSSE plugins listen for post events associated with those object types and syndicate appropriately.
glennjones.net as of 2014-01-14 Glenn Jones The blog implemented POSSE using a new version of transmat.io system. New content added to transmat is associated with objects types. A POSSE twitter plugins listens for post events syndicating content. At moment only notes are syndicated.
adactio.com as of 2014-05-27 Jeremy Keith has implemented POSSE using his own custom CMS.
shanehudson.net as of 2014-09-19 Shane Hudson has implemented POSSE to Twitter for Craft CMS.
http://www.ravisagar.in/blog/implementing-posse-my-site Implementing POSSE on my site as of 2018-02-21.
ludovic.chabant.com as of 2018-07-30 Ludovic Chabant has implement POSSE to Twitter and Mastodon from PieCrust CMS, using SiloRider
adamdawkins.uk as of 2019-01-16 Adam Dawkins has implemented POSSE using his own custom CMS.
shaun.net as of 2020-01-16 Shaun Ewing has implemented POSSE using Jekyll, and custom APIs.
Back on my blog, I started a rolling list of WebMention blogs. I’ve not maintained that series, but this list started from that blog post series. I’ve marked a few in bold – these are specifically general-purpose conversation starters and topic ideas.

I’m open to suggested additions, title corrections, ideas, and anything else related you might want to share. Comments, suggestions, praise, and other feedback by WebMention or ActivityPub only.
I will periodically review this list. Sites that seem inactive, I will prune, while new sites I find will be added. To talk about this list, there is a meta page.
This page had some problems (repeating pings). I hope I’ve stopped it now.
Back on my blog, I started a rolling list of WebMention blogs. I’ve not maintained that series, but this list started from that blog post series. I’ve marked a few in bold – these are specifically general-purpose conversation starters and topic ideas.

I’m open to suggested additions, title corrections, ideas, and anything else related you might want to share. Comments, suggestions, praise, and other feedback by WebMention or ActivityPub only.
I will periodically review this list. Sites that seem inactive, I will prune, while new sites I find will be added. To talk about this list, there is a meta page.
This page had some problems (repeating pings). I hope I’ve stopped it now.
The collapse of Twitter last year got me thinking about closed platforms and reducing the hold that privately owned platforms have over the Internet.
I’ve been blogging for nine years now on my personal website. I like owning my own domain as it allows me to retain control and stay independent of particular services. Private platforms have a tendency to be bought out and/or ruined by commercial interests, especially now with tech growth slowing down and investors getting uneasy.
However, there are some benefits to closed blogging platforms. Medium provides a network effect that small blogs don’t have. It has an algorithm that promotes posts that users may find interesting. This allows the blogs to organically gain new readers. Additionally, Medium makes it super easy to like, comment, and reply to a post, resulting in a platform that feels a lot more like a social network than your standard cloud blogging service.
Last year, I started looking into ways independent blogs could communicate, just like on Medium. I considered making my blog ActivityPub-compatible, as that would allow users on Mastodon and the Fediverse to like, share, and comment on articles. And then, I stumbled upon the IndieWeb.
IndieWeb.org describes the IndieWeb as:
— IndieWeb.orgThe IndieWeb is a community of independent & personal websites connected by simple standards, based on the principles of: owning your domain & using it as your primary identity, publishing on your own site (optionally syndicating elsewhere), and owning your data.
To phrase it another way, IndieWeb is about posting the things you make on your personal website and domain, to keep control of your data and stay independent from private platforms (aka silos). You may still post to silos but you should post to your personal website first.
IndieWeb isn’t just about blogging. You might post Twitter-like microposts, photos, location check-ins, reviews, replies to other sites, and more.
An important concept is “Publish on your Own Site; Syndicate Elsewhere” (POSSE). This means that you should post the original version on your own website and then share links or copies of your content with relevant social media communities. This is simpler and more flexible than adding ActivityPub support to my blog, and is so obvious that I’ve already been doing it without realising it.
You may be thinking that POSSE is pretty obvious and a bit of a cop-out. But where POSSE truly shines is when combined with backfeeding. A Backfeed is a list of replies, likes, and mentions for the current page. Combined with POSSE, this allows you to see replies to the current page across all different private silos. For example, you might see comments from Mastodon and Reddit at the bottom of a blog post, as well as replies from other IndieWeb websites.
Together, POSSE and backfeeding strike a good compromise between owning your own presence and participating in silos. They improve discoverability and allow for reader interaction.
The IndieWeb community has authored several standards that allow IndieWeb websites to communicate.
Webmentions allow websites to be notified when another site links to them. By receiving a notification, a site can know about replies and mentions without having to maintain impractical web crawlers or subscribe to a backlinking service.
I started by
implementing support for
receiving Webmentions. This was super easy, I just needed to add a couple of
link tags to the top of all pages:
<link rel="webmention" href="https://webmention.io/example.com/webmention">
<link rel="pingback" href="https://webmention.io/example.com/xmlrpc">
WebMention.io is a cloud service for receiving Webmentions. You might think it’s odd to use a cloud service for this, but it’s not a problem as I’m still using my own domain for the pages and could switch the Webmentions service at any time. IndieWeb isn’t about self-hosting, it’s about owning your identity and data.
I currently send Webmentions manually using Telegraph or IndieWebify.
My blog is statically hosted and is built using GitLab CI. As the site is only published when CI finishes, it would be impossible to include sending web mentions as part of the same CI pipeline. In the future, I’ll probably look into using Brid.gy or some other tool to send Webmentions by monitoring my web feeds.
Personal websites can contain a variety of content. Long-form articles, Twitter-like notes, location check-ins, reviews, and replies. Microformats2 is a way of marking up the content of web pages so that machines can understand it better. This is a powerful thing when combined with Webmentions as it allows the receiving website to understand what is linking to it and why.
Microformats2 works by adding classes to elements representing content:
<article class="h-entry">
<h2 class="p-name">Hello world!</h2>
<a href="/tags/a-tag/" class="p-category">
A tag
</a>
<div class="e-content">
This is the article's content.
</div>
</article>
Implementing support for Microformats2 (mf2) was a huge pain, I cannot overstate how much so. The documentation was very fragmented and inconsistent, and the tools I found to test mf2 didn’t match the documentation.
The most extreme problem I had was with authorship - authorship is how you find out who is the author of a piece of content. The documentation says that you should be able to just include a link to the homepage in each piece of content, and tools should fetch the author info:
<article class="h-entry">
<div class="e-content">This is an example note</div>
<a href="https://rubenwardy.com" class="u-author"></a>
</article>
However, this did not work at all. Most of the tools I found didn’t make further requests and only looked at the current page. This makes sense I guess, but it’s annoying that the documentation said it was possible.
The next thing I looked at was including the authorship information in the footer of each page, and then referencing it from each piece of content like so:
<article class="h-entry">
<div class="e-content">This is an example note</div>
<a href="/" class="u-author"></a>
</article>
<footer>
<a href="/" class="h-card">
<img class="u-photo" src="/me.jpg">
<span class="p-name">Author Name</span>
</a>
</footer>
Unfortunately, this didn’t work with any of the tools either. The only thing I found that worked was to include the authorship information in full in every single piece of content.
<article class="h-entry">
<div class="e-content">This is an example note</div>
<div class="p-author h-card d-none">
<a class="u-url p-name" href="https://rubenwardy.com/">rubenwardy</a>
<img class="u-photo" src="/me.jpg">
</div>
</article>
Thank you to users on the IndieWeb IRC channels for pointing towards useful tools and documentation, and asking my newbie questions. Without them, I wouldn’t have been able to implement support at all. I believe that they have improved the documentation a bit based on my feedback, although the authorship page still mentions the methods I tried that didn’t work.
The three main tools I used for testing Microformats2 were IndieWebify, pin13.net mf2, Waterpigs mf2.
A Backfeed is a list of replies, likes, and mentions for the current page. For example, you might see comments from Mastodon and Reddit at the bottom of a blog post, as well as replies from other IndieWeb websites.
My blog shows likes from Mastodon and other social platforms using Brid.gy and Webmentions. When I post a link to my blog on social media, Brid.gy monitors activity and sends Webmentions. JavaScript on my blog fetches Webmentions and updates the counter. My blog also caches like counts at build time. In the future, I’ll make it so that the JS only fetches activity since the blog was last built, reducing the amount of work the Web Mentions API needs to do.
I decided not to implement the backfeeding of comments from social media as I’m concerned about the privacy implications. Just because someone decides to reply publicly on social media silos doesn’t mean that they want their post and their profile picture to appear on my website. Additionally, Webmentions can’t be deleted meaning that the comment may continue to appear on my website even after the author deletes it on the silo.
Two good articles discussing the ethics and privacy challenges of backfeeding include “The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions” and “The IndieWeb privacy challenge”.
I may reconsider this in the future. I’d need to make it sufficiently clear to commenters and allow them to opt-out. I’d also need to make sure that deleting the comment on the silo also deletes it from my website.
I added a comment form to the bottom of posts on my blog. My blog is statically hosted. To collect comments, I have a service running on another subdomain that collects any comments and sends them to me. Users can also choose to send comments by email or another method. All comments are moderated before showing on my blog.
To avoid spam, the comment form has a “username” form hidden using CSS. Most spam bots don’t bother applying the CSS so will see the field and fill it in. This is called a honeypot field and is surprisingly effective - I was receiving multiple spam comments a day, but since adding the field I’ve only received a single spam comment.
<style>
input[name="username"] {
display: none;
}
</style>
<input type="text" name="username">
You can find the source code behind commenting on GitLab.
IndieWeb standards are fairly obscure and don’t seem to have been adopted much yet. Of all the posts I’ve made since adding IndieWeb support, this is probably the only one that will actually find websites linked to that can receive Webmentions. If a popular Content Management System, like WordPress, added built-in support for Webmentions and mf2, I could see it suddenly becoming a lot more popular.
Whilst Webmentions are pretty cool, Microformats2 is pretty complicated and was pretty annoying to implement. I know that the IndieWeb crowd will have strong opinions on this, but I quite like how simple JSON-LD was to add support for and that it’s JSON.
As for the community side of IndieWeb, personal websites have seen a big resurgence since the fall of Twitter. I think we’re in a new golden age for RSS and personal websites. I’ve been encouraging a lot of my friends to take up blogging.
I’m certainly a more technical user than the average blogger. I don’t mind being an early adopter of technology and appreciate the goals of IndieWeb. I like how they try to focus on the people before the technology, even though Microformats2 leaves much to be desired.
I currently only post blog posts on my website. I don’t plan to post notes on my website as I prefer to use Mastodon directly. But I might start posting my photography here.
I’m undecided as to whether I’ll stick with IndieWeb technology in the long term, but I’ll certainly continue to own and publish on my own domain.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s owned dozens of phony luxury items including bags and jewelry federal autho to federal charges that she had put together a $5 million telemarketing scam targeted to swindle older people.
The latest: The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s Jen Shah, 49, owned dozens of phony luxury items including bags and jewelry federal authorities seized during a raid of her Utah residence last year
Among the fraudulent items of merchandise, which were mostly manufactured in China, included fake purses aimed to resemble products from high-end brands including Balenciaga, Chanel, Fendi, Gucci, Hermes, Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton and Valentino.
The jewelry collection included counterfeit pieces made to resemble designers such as Bulgari, Chanel, Cartier, eVDeN EVE nAKLiyaT Dior, Gucci, Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Tiffany & Co.
Mixed in with the phony items were actual pieces of luxury accessories and jewelry from brands such as Yves Saint Laurent, Versace, Gucci, evDEn eve nakLiYat Louis Vuitton and Prada, as well as pieces from her castmate Meredith Marks’ brand.
Federal authorities took possession of all of the items amid a raid on the Bravo personality’s home in March of 2021 in the probe into her fraud case.
After the holidays: Jen Shah’s trial date has been pushed back until next year, after she plead guilty to charges of organizing a $5million telemarketing scam that targeted hundreds of elderly people
Approved: The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star’s new court date is set for January 6, 2023
Shah’s sentencing date has been pushed back until next year, after she that targeted hundreds of elderly people.
The star’s new court date is set for , 2023, after the holidays.
In court documents, obtained by , it was revealed that ‘Judge Sidney H.Stein approved the rescheduling on Wednesday, November 23.’
In July, Shah plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, with the US attorney dropping her second count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Shah’s assistant Stuart Smith previously admitted his part in the same scam, and had been due to testify against his former employer, until her guilty plea.
The US attorney’s office says Shah faces the maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, but NBC Connecticut reports that a plea deal will actually see her serve a maximum of 14 years.
A few extra months of freedom: In court documents, obtained by Us Weekly , it was revealed that ‘Judge Sidney H.Stein approved the rescheduling on Wednesday, November 23’