10 years ago today the first #federated #IndieWeb comment thread was published and collected peer-to-peer IndieWeb replies across websites without any intermediary, silo or otherwise^1.
2013-04-19 @eschnou.com posted a brief note on his personal site with #atMentions of a few domains (putting an '@' sign immediately before a domain name to indicate an explicit cross-web @-mention), which itself was also a first^2
"Testing #indieweb federation with @waterpigs.co.uk, @aaronparecki.com and @indiewebcamp.com !"
When @aaronpk.com was notified and replied from his site within minutes^3, it became the first peer-to-peer federated IndieWeb comment thread, at the time using h-entry and Pingback. I blogged about it a few days later^4.
Earlier this year I blogged more observations of all the user interactions that happened on that day and shortly thereafter to make this all work: https://tantek.com/2023/014/t4/domain-first-federated-atmention
Unfortunately Laurent Eschnou’s original post is no longer up, and we only have the Internet Archive copy. However most of the IndieWeb reply posts are still up including Barnaby’s: https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/1334/
The oldest still working federated post and comment thread was second overall, unsurprisingly from @aaronparecki.com^5, a whole 40 days after Laurent’s first.
This is day 37 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days #OpenWeb #federation #fediverse
← Day 36: https://tantek.com/2023/100/t1/auto-linked-hashtags-federated
→ Day 38: https://tantek.com/2023/110/t2/beyond-mastodon-indieweb-own-domain
Glossary
federation
https://indieweb.org/federation
h-entry
https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
Pingback
https://indieweb.org/Pingback
reply post
https://indieweb.org/reply
References
^1 https://web.archive.org/web/20130427010301/http://eschnou.com/entry/testing-indieweb-federation-with-waterpigscouk-aaronpareckicom-and--62-24908.html
^2 https://tantek.com/2023/014/t4/domain-first-federated-atmention
^3 https://aaronparecki.com/2013/04/19/3/indieweb
^4 https://tantek.com/2013/113/b1/first-federated-indieweb-comment-thread
^5 https://aaronparecki.com/2013/05/21/4/xkcd
@fredrocha.net (@john_fisherman@mastodon.social) saw your post (https://mastodon.social/@john_fisherman/110224246899618915) from the #IndieWeb stream. Beautiful photos on your site! #btconf was great wasn’t it?
My personal URL is https://tantek.com/ and my #fediverse @ is @tantek.com. My Atom feed file is auto-discoverable by feed readers from my home page.
Feeding (so to speak) two discovery birds with one stonefruit^1.
Your personal website can be your fediverse address^2, each providing seamless discovery for the other.
As web developers we should be building & developing our personal sites to exemplify the latest & greatest of such practices, including using Mastodon/ActivityPub as yet another distribution mechanism (ala POSSE) for your existing personal websites rather than a separate profile/stream.
Discussed this with @nebu@mastodon.social and @kadirtopal@mastodon.social just after the last talk @beyondtellerrand.com (@btconf@mastodon.social @btconf) yesterday, fitting conference closing thoughts complementing the heartfelt opening talk by @localghost.dev (https://sophie.omg.lol/ @sophie@social.lol)^3.
Glossary
ActivityPub
https://indieweb.org/ActivityPub
feed file
https://indieweb.org/feed_file
POSSE
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
References
^1 https://tantek.com/2020/147/t2/replace-violent-metaphors
^2 https://tantek.com/2022/301/t1/twittermigration-bridgyfed-mastodon-indieweb
^3 https://tantek.com/2023/107/t1/beyond-tellerand-talk-love-personal-website
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