@bradenslen The end goal is not for every individual blogger and website owner to add HEAD tags to their websites, it’s that the tools that allow people to use the websites support adding the HEAD tags automatically. Like micro.blog. If you add Twitter/GitHub in the settings, it automatically applies rel=“me” to the links. As a user you don’t have to understand the technical aspect. That is the end goal, platform/software owners understand the tech stuff and users use the platforms/softwares
@adiabatic See @EddieHinkle reply is pretty much the kind of thing I was talking about. He nicely cleared some questions up.
@EddieHinkle Thank you. You cleared up one question in re. micro.blog. I have been booping about the different Indieweb links looking at services and scripts and on several sites they talk about "just put THIS in your head tags..." and stuff and goodness will happen. :) My layman's mind was failing to grasp how all those mentions, replies comments happen. Where do they appear. Is it just WordPress or Wordpress.com and what about micro.blog? Anyway thanks for clearing some of that up. I'm trying to figure out my best course of action for several old blogs and what to do with them and how to knit them all together. And while I may be confused about stuff like, do I need Bird.ly or does micro.blog have all that sorted, it really is all good to me because these Indieweb ideas are so cool.
@bradenslen Yeah it can definitely be confusing, especially because some people build their own websites, some want simple ways to get Wordpress functioning and micro.blog aims to be as close to 0 config as possible. So everything has different audiences 🙂 Feel free to ask me any questions you have as you try to figure out what you want to do. There is also a Slack community and IRC community for the IndieWeb where you can discussion questions and find answers: https://indieweb.org/discuss
@EddieHinkle I'm really liking micro.blog. It is very easy. My problem is often, I think I understand something I've read but I'm not quite sure I understand. :-) Thanks again.