Month: 3 Tammuz 5783 (June 2023)

Do you know what’s more embarrassing than having ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ as a ringtone? Not putting your phone on silent at a funeral.

—@IHPower

So… what if, from now on, refugees and migrants say they’re looking for the Titanic – rather than for unexciting things like security and a better life?

Will governments boost their search-and-rescue operations then?

—@andrewstroehlein

I’m laughing at memes about billionaires who can’t pull themselves up to the surface by their own bootstraps, but in reality I’m furious.

I’m furious I was accused of human smuggling by FRONTEX (European border agency) for being part of a sea rescue operation that saved 1000+ lives of refugees fleeing war & terrorism.

I’m furious at the money and international effort being spent to rescue these billionaires when operations like ours cost so little and save so many lives, but are punished.

—@revoluciana

Two anniversaries today: microformats (18y) and POSSE (11y).

Happy 18 years of https://microformats.org/ #microformats!

Most prominent this past year (again) has been the littlest #microformat that could:

rel=me — AKA #relMe, now effectively the standard for #distributed #verification on the web:
* https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me (originally introduced in 2004¹)

with support added in the past year for:
* #GitHub multiple rel-me links²
* #Wikipedia User page rel-me link³

#POSSE, short for “Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere”, as a term of use is now 11 years old³, which is surprising since when it was conceived, the #IndieWeb community was in a period of very rapid innovation & iteration.

POSSE itself replaced a previous term, “POSE”, short for “Publish Once Syndicate Everywhere”, which had only been around a year or two at most (I’m still looking for the first use of the “POSE” abbreviation for that meaning).

Since “publish once” was vague enough to include practices of publishing once on a social media silo, or in someone else’s garage⁵, we needed to clearly express the requirement to use your own site instead, first, as the source of your truth. Cross-posting to other sites & channels, is a second, optional step, ideally with a permalink linking back to your original post so viewers can easily discover and use your site.

That distinction was enough for POSSE to express a strong creator-owned-first publishing model that resonated and grew. Every time a silo shutdown⁶ at the end of its incredible journey⁷, removing posts & permalinks from the web, POSSE was there for people who were tired of losing their data, permalinks, & profiles, and wanted an alternative.

This is day 43 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days

← Day 42: https://tantek.com/2023/160/t1/mastodon-activitypub-follow-form-bridgy-fed
→ 🔮

Glossary

permalink
  https://indieweb.org/permalink
POSE
  https://indieweb.org/POSE
POSSE
  https://indieweb.org/POSSE
silo
  https://indieweb.org/silo

References

¹ https://gmpg.org/xfn/11#me
² https://tantek.com/2023/032/t1/years-relmeauth-replace-openid
³ https://tantek.com/2023/139/t1/wikipedia-supports-indieweb-rel-me
⁴ https://tantek.com/2012/173/t1/posse-core-indieweb-approach
⁵ https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
⁶ https://indieweb.org/site-deaths
⁷ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

—@tantek.com

If the coming removal of WCAG SC 4.1.1 Parsing is causing you some angst, I have a post with mappings:

“The 411 on 4.1.1”
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/12/the-411-on-4-1-1.html

#accessibility #a11y

—@aardrian