#microformats2

Tantek ÇelikTwenty years ago this past February, Kevin Marks and I introduced <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/microformats" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microformats</a> in a conference presentation. Full post: <a class="" href="https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformats" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformats</a> Aside: This is an even shorter summary of that post from ~200 days ago, which <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> readers never got due to a Mastodon <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/federation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#federation</a> bug (details in <a class="" href="https://tantek.com/t5Yo1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tantek.com/t5Yo1</a>). Since early 2023, here are the top three updates & interesting developments in microformats: 1. Growing rel=me adoption for distributed verification (✅ in Mastodon etc.)  * Wikipedia, Threads, <a class="" href="http://omg.lol" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">omg.lol</a> 2. Proposal to merge <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/microformats2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microformats2</a> h-review into h-entry, since in practice (e.g. on <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indieweb</a>) reviews are just entries with a bit more. 3. <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/metaformats" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metaformats</a> adoptions, implementations, iteration

Tantek ÇelikHappy 12 years of <a class="" href="https://indieweb.org/POSSE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://indieweb.org/POSSE</a> <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/POSSE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#POSSE</a> and 19 years of <a class="" href="https://microformats.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://microformats.org/</a> <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/microformats" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microformats</a>! (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 <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/IndieWeb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndieWeb</a> community, personal sites, CMSs (like Withknown, which itself reached 10 years in May!), and services (like <a class="" href="https://micro.blog" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://micro.blog</a> and Bridgy) 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 (<a class="" href="https://mas.to/@pierce" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@pierce@mas.to</a>) excellent article <a class="" href="https://TheVerge.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@TheVerge.com</a> (<a class="" href="https://mastodon.social/@verge" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@verge@mastodon.social</a>): “The poster’s guide to the internet of the future” (<a class="" href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon</a>):   “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: <a class="" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posters-guide-to-the-new-internet/id430333725?i=1000632256014" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posters-guide-to-the-new-internet/id430333725?i=1000632256014</a> * Cory Doctorow (<a class="" href="https://craphound.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@craphound.com</a> <a class="" href="https://mamot.fr/@doctorow" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@doctorow@mamot.fr</a>) declared in his Pluralistic blog (<a class="" href="https://pluralistic.net" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@pluralistic.net</a>) post: “Vice surrenders” (<a class="" href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/</a>):   “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 (<a class="" href="https://mollywhite.net" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mollywhite.net</a> <a class="" href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io</a>) of <a class="" href="https://web3isgoinggreat.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@web3isgoinggreat.com</a> (<a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@web3isgreat@indieweb.social</a>) built, deployed, and started actively using her own POSSE setup as described in her post titled “POSSE” (<a class="" href="https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403091817" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403091817</a>) 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 <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/microformats2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microformats2</a> 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 <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Webmention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Webmention</a>. Beyond the IndieWeb, the rel=me microformat, AKA <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/relMe" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#relMe</a>, continues to be adopted by services to support <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/distributed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#distributed</a> <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/verification" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#verification</a>, such as these in the past year: * Meta Platforms <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Threads" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> user profile "Link" field<a href="https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-beyond#t5Xa1_note-1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">¹</a> * <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Letterboxd" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Letterboxd</a> user profile website field<a href="https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-beyond#t5Xa1_note-2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">²</a> 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: * <a class="" href="https://chat.indieweb.org/dev" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://chat.indieweb.org/dev</a> * <a class="" href="https://chat.indieweb.org/microformats" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://chat.indieweb.org/microformats</a> for discussions about POSSE and microformats, respectively. Previously: <a class="" href="https://tantek.com/2023/171/t1/anniversaries-microformats-posse" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tantek.com/2023/171/t1/anniversaries-microformats-posse</a> This is post 15 of <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/100PostsOfIndieWeb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#100PostsOfIndieWeb</a>. <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/100Posts" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#100Posts</a> ← <a class="" href="https://tantek.com/2024/151/t1/minimum-interesting-service-worker" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tantek.com/2024/151/t1/minimum-interesting-service-worker</a> → <a class="" href="https://tantek.com/2024/237/t1/people-over-protocols-platforms" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tantek.com/2024/237/t1/people-over-protocols-platforms</a> Post glossary: Bridgy   <a class="" href="https://brid.gy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://brid.gy/</a> and <a class="" href="https://fed.brid.gy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://fed.brid.gy/</a> for direct federation instead of POSSE CMS   <a class="" href="https://indieweb.org/CMS" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://indieweb.org/CMS</a> h-card   <a class="" href="https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://microformats.org/wiki/h-card</a> h-entry   <a class="" href="https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry</a> h-feed   <a class="" href="https://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://microformats.org/wiki/h-feed</a> microformats2 syntax   <a class="" href="https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing</a> rel-me   <a class="" href="https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me</a> SSG   <a class="" href="https://indieweb.org/SSG" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://indieweb.org/SSG</a> Webmention   <a class="" href="https://indieweb.org/Webmention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://indieweb.org/Webmention</a> Withknown   <a class="" href="https://indieweb.org/Known" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://indieweb.org/Known</a> References: <a href="https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-beyond#t5Xa1_ref-1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">¹</a> <a class="" href="https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me</a> <a href="https://tantek.com/2024/173/t1/years-posse-microformats-beyond#t5Xa1_ref-2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">²</a> <a class="" href="https://indieweb.org/rel-me#Letterboxd" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://indieweb.org/rel-me#Letterboxd</a>

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