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#microformats

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lianna

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?

#microformats#microformats2#HTML
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It's Richie

As we consider ways to implement #ActivityPub into our FOSS Community Calendar Ecosystem platform Koalagator, I've been looking over the differing specs for how to specify the event object schema.

Have any other folk wrestled with this?Asking before I get arms deep in this stuff.

For those playing at home...

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Schema.org - Event

Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet.

schema.org/Event

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W3C Activity Vocabulary - Event

This specification describes the Activity vocabulary. It is intended to be used in the context of the ActivityStreams 2.0 format and provides a foundational vocabulary for activity structures, and specific activity types.

w3.org/TR/activitystreams-voca

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Fediverse Enhancement Proposal
FEP-8a8e: A common approach to using the Event object type

ActivityStreams defines the Object Type Event. In real-world applications, the event object immediately showed the need for extension. Applications featuring Event objects have often chosen to add additional attributes and clarifications (i.e., interpretations) in order to implement their particular use case. This proposal clarifies and extends the ActivityPub standard to address the needs that have arisen in real-world implementations.

codeberg.org/linos/fep/src/bra

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[HTML] Microformats - h-event

People are using microformats to mark up profiles, posts, events and other data on their personal sites, enabling developers to build applications which use this data in useful and interesting ways.

microformats.org/wiki/h-event

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iCalendar Standard (RFC 5545)

iCalendar was first defined as a standard as RFC 2445 in 1998 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Today, iCalendar is used to import and synchronize events on various platforms, including smart phones, computer and web applications.

icalendar.org/the-icalendar-st

schema.orgEvent - Schema.org TypeSchema.org Type: Event - An event happening at a certain time and location, such as a concert, lecture, or festival. Ticketing information may be added via the <a class="localLink" href="/offers">offers</a> property. Repeated events may be structured as separate Event objects.
#Calendar#Standards#WebStandards
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Shane Becker

@paulca I wonder if there's prior art from #indieweb land that could be used and/or expanded upon?

indieweb.org/Category:building

#microformats and #ActivityStreams (which begat #ActivityPub already has a big vocabulary of things (nouns and verbs)

The #indeweb outlook on auth is that your domain is your UID

Payments… no real idea/suggestion
The allure of a a Just Works™ universal payments system on the web has been there since the start. That territory seems more fragmented than ever.

IndieWebbuilding-blocks🧱🔩
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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

I have webmentions coming in from Mastodon now! I added microformats, including a "u-syndication" link to my site (e.g., here: reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/202 — you can see if you right-click and "view source"), and I figured out getting my Mastodon account working with Bridgy.

Now I'm able to see interactions on Mastodon as webmentions, and it should be relatively straightforward to add a counter to my post showing how many interactions it has on the Fediverse.

reillyspitzfaden.comDatabending Part 1Did you know you can listen to pretty much any file as an audio file? Let's look at how it works and what it sounds like!
#Webmentions#IndieWeb#Microformats
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Tantek Çelik

The team @micro.blog have done it again.

They soft-launched https://micro.one yesterday¹.

This may be the most accessible onramp to the open social web ever.

Cost: $1 a month. Yes you read correctly.

This is the simplest and cheapest (where you are the customer, not the product) way to own your identity and content online².

Stop posting in someone else’s garage³.

Time to export your Twitter, and migrate your Mastodon handle to your own home on the web.

Of course you can bring your own domain name. Additionally:
* blog posts, naturally, both articles and microblogging notes
* photos
* podcasting
* custom themes
* web-clients and native mobile posting clients
* WordPress, Tumblr, Mastodon, Medium import
More details (and alternatives) at https://micro.one/about/pricing

And yes, it interoperates with the open #socialWeb, including:
* #ActivityPub support, #Mastodon and #fediverse compatibility
* #IndieAuth to sign-in to third-party apps
* #microformats support in all built-in themes
* #Webmention for sending and receiving replies across websites
* #Micropub standard posting API, supporting dozens of clients
* #Microsub standard timeline API, supporting social readers
More #indieweb support details at https://micro.one/about/indieweb

Did I mention the the superb micro.blog (and micro.one) Community Guidelines?
* https://help.micro.blog/t/community-guidelines/39

Well done @manton.org and team.

This is post 6 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #ownYourIdentity #ownYourData #openSocialWeb

← https://tantek.com/2025/003/t1/lastfm-year-in-review-playback24
→ https://tantek.com/2025/012/t1/eight-years-webmention


Glossary

IndieAuth
  https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth
microformats
  https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats
Micropub
  https://indieweb.org/Micropub
Microsub
  https://indieweb.org/Microsub
Webmention
  https://indieweb.org/Webmention

References

¹ https://www.manton.org/2025/01/03/microone-was-effectively-a-softlaunch.html
² https://tantek.com/2025/001/t1/15-years-notes-my-site-first
³ https://tantek.com/2023/022/t2/own-your-notes-domain-migration

micro.blogMicro.blogPost short thoughts or long essays, share photos, all on your own blog. Micro.blog makes it easy, and provides a friendly community where you can share and engage with others.
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Caleb Hearth :d6:

📝:ivory_boost: Oat Notes

You’ll probably read this recipe and think wait, this is just overnight oats but you’d be wrong, because this is a recipe for overnight oats that someone who cares about you remembered to make for you last night. At least that’s how I interpret my 3-year-old’s mis-hearing or pronunciation of us...

#NaBloPoMo #Receipe #NaBloPoMo2024 #Cooklang #Microformats #IndieWeb
calebhearth.com/m/oat-notes

HearthsideOat Notes
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Jan Boddez

How I Built My Blog

Really, it’s just WordPress1 + IndieBlocks with most settings enabled. That’s kind of it2. I know. Controversial, eh? ↩︎That exact stack, plus a so-called block theme, would give you a “note” post type, “full” microformats2 support, and Webmention. (And then some. Also, the block theme’s optional, but then you’d have to do with, uh, “less […]

https://bddz.be/gRa

jan.boddez.netHow I Built My Blog – Jan’s Blog
#indieweb#microformats#wordpress
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John Johnston

Likes Happy 12 years of #POSSE and 19 years of #microformats! by Tantek Çelik.
A great set of links and info. I started gently scratching the indieWeb itch here is 2015 when I installed some of the plugins. I still think it is a good idea. tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-p

tantek.comHappy 12 years of https://indieweb.org/POSSE #POSSE and 19 years of https://microformats.org/ #microformats! (as of yesterday, the 20th) A few highlights from the past year: POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) has grown steadily as a common practice in the #IndieWeb community, personal sites, CMSs (like Withknown, which itself reached 10 years in May!), and services (like https://micro.blog) for over a decade. In its 12th year, POSSE broke through to broader technology press and adoption beyond the community. For example: * David Pierce’s (@pierce@mas.to) excellent article @TheVerge.com (@verge@mastodon.social): “The poster’s guide to the internet of the future” (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon): “Your post appears natively on all of those platforms, typically with some kind of link back to your blog. And your blog becomes the hub for everything, your main home on the internet. Done right, POSSE is the best of all posting worlds.” * David also recorded a 29 minute podcast on POSSE with some great interviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posters-guide-to-the-new-internet/id430333725?i=1000632256014 * Cory Doctorow (@craphound.com @doctorow@mamot.fr) declared in his Pluralistic blog (@pluralisticmamot.fr) post: “Vice surrenders” (https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/): “This is the moment for POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere [sic]), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that you control” * And none other than Molly White (@mollywhite.net @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io) of @web3isgoinggreat.com (@web3isgreat@indieweb.social) built, deployed, and started actively using her own POSSE setup as described in her post titled “POSSE” (https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403091817) to: "… write posts in the microblog and automatically crosspost them to Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky, while keeping the original post on my site." Congrats Molly and well done! In its 19th year, the microformats formal #microformats2 syntax and popular vocabularies h-card, h-entry, and h-feed, kept growing across IndieWeb (micro)blogging services and software like CMSs & SSGs both for publishing, and richer peer-to-peer social web interactions via #Webmention. Beyond the IndieWeb, the rel=me microformat, AKA #relMe, continues to be adopted by services to support #distributed #verification, such as these in the past year: * Meta Platforms #Threads user profile "Link" field^1 * #Letterboxd user profile website field^2 For both POSSE and microformats, there is always more we can do to improve their techniques, technologies, and tools to help people own their content and identities online, while staying connected to friends across the web. Got suggestions for this coming year? Join us in chat: * https://chat.indieweb.org/dev * https://chat.indieweb.org/microformats for discussions about POSSE and microformats, respectively. Previously: https://tantek.com/2023/171/t1/anniversaries-microformats-posse This is post 15 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts ← https://tantek.com/2024/151/t1/minimum-interesting-service-worker → 🔮 Post glossary: CMS https://indieweb.org/CMS h-card https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card h-entry https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry h-feed https://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed microformats2 syntax https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing rel-me https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me SSG https://indieweb.org/SSG Webmention https://indieweb.org/Webmention Withknown https://indieweb.org/Known References: ^1 https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me ^2 https://indieweb.org/rel-me#Letterboxd - Tantek
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Caesar

This will be a nice feature if/when it's opened up to people other than big news publishers, but I'm disappointed that @Mastodon decided to roll their own opengraph meta tag instead of using the existing web standard `link rel="author"`.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/

microformats.org/wiki/rel-auth

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