@chrisaldrich It looks like syndicating is working properly. Now to make sure Webmentions are propagating properly. Hopefully there isnāt really much left to change or check?
I note that @manton apparently clevely designed micro.blog URL permalinks so that the username in the URL doesnāt seem to matter! So changing my username doesnāt automatically kill all my prior permalinks to my content.
@chrisaldrich I did have to change the JSON feed Iām subscribed to in my feed reader to properly follow the people Iām following on micro.blog there.
@chrisaldrich glad to hear the switch went smoothly for you Chris! Curious: what WebMention approach do you use? Iām consider using IFTTT.
@w4rner My primary site is WordPress which uses both the Webmention and Semantic Linkbacks plugins. My secondary site runs WithKnown and has it built in automatically. Iām curious how youād use Webmention with IFTTT? Iāve not heard of that approach before. Can you use it for both sending and receiving, perhaps with some other service like webmention.io? I know that Brid.gy offers some work-around methods to offer Webmention for platforms like Tumblr, WordPress.com, Blogger, and Medium which you might find useful too.
@chrisaldrich On Webmention.app they detail how to use IFTTT to check webmentions you are sending out, though Iām still not sure how to actually make one from a micro.blog post!
In terms of receiving webmentions, am looking at webmention.io though Iām not sure I trust the IndieLogin.com web sign-in, it asks for access to my micro.blog account.
@w4rner Thereās nothing to trust with IndieLogin.com. If I recall correctly itās just implemented IndieAuth, so itās going to take your URL as an input and doublecheck that youāre actually logged into your own account before allowing you access to the service. It doesnāt take or use your password in any way and you can revoke your login at any time. Itās an extension thatās built onto OAuth 2.0, so itās really no different than using something like your Twitter or Facebook account to log in, but in this case youāre using and hosting the technology with your micro.blog site (or really micro.blog is doing it on your behalf.)
@w4rner As for webmentions, you shouldnāt need a third party app for it since micro.blog is sending and receiving webmentions for you already. Now, if youāre thinking about adding webmentions to some other service, like Tumblr or a blogging service that doesnāt support them natively, then you might want to use something like webmention.io to receive them on your behalf.
@w4rner On the Webmention.app/IFTTT front, that description is a set up for services that donāt send/receive webmentions themselves. Every time you publish something on micro.blog with a URL, micro.blog is sending webmentions out for you in the background automatically.
If you had a Tumblr website and wanted to send webmentions, then you might use that Webmention.app/IFTTT set up so that when you posted something on Tumblr, your RSS feed would update with the new post, IFTTT would check the update and trigger webmention.app to send a webmention from your post to any of the URLs that appeared in your post.
@chrisaldrich Thatās awesome news! Iāve just never been webmentioned I guess! Reckon you could send me one? Seeing is believing!
@chrisaldrich thanks for trying! But didnāt come up on micro.blog interface. Also not listed as reply on the original ātestā blog.w4rner.com page. š any ideas on whether WebMentions automatically works with vanilla micro.blog @manton @aaronpk ?
@w4rner Doesnāt look like Iām gonna get support here to display inbounds, but can you at least confirm you received mine @chrisaldrich so I know I can send outbounds?
@w4rner From what I can tell from the logs, it doesnāt look like I received one from your website automatically, but I was able to manually force it to show up: https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/21/using-ifttt-to-syndicate-pesos-content-from-social-services-to-wordpress-using-micropub/#comment-306971. Iām not sure why it wouldnāt however. Definitely a question for @manton and the gang.
@chrisaldrich I know youāre super-busy @manton but pls help @chrisaldrich spread the good news of webmentions through the great platform of micro.blog š