https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/298/a1/indieweb_identity/

https://y.yarn.co/d4aa882e-7143-4163-869b-458fa1519cbb_text.mp4

https://memes.yarn.co/yarn-clip/d4aa882e-7143-4163-869b-458fa1519cbb

IndieAuth: My Website is my passport. Verify Me.

Fluffy's work here gives me such hope for the future. :)

I do wonder a bit about the potential misuse/abuse of sending tickets as notifications to people who don't want them.

Hopefully once the system is up and distributed it's relatively easy to ignore or block tickets from bad actors. Email spam is a similar model to this.

Platforms specifically for communities could be an interesting new object on the Internet. What sorts of IndieWeb building blocks would one use to build them? Are there new functionalities that they might have that aren't in the list of building blocks yet?

I could see functionality like signing in with one's website using IndieAuth to access private content being a piece.

The fun, secret part is that Kathleen hasn't (yet?) discovered IndieAuth so that she can authenticate/authorize micropub clients like Quill to publish content to her own site from various clients by means of a potential micropub endpoint.

I'll suspect she'll be even more impressed when she realizes that there's a forthcoming wave of feed readers [1] [2] that will allow her to read others' content in a reader which has an integrated micropub client in it so that she can reply to posts directly in her feed reader, then the responses get posted directly to her own website which then, in turn, send webmentions to the site's she's responding to so that the conversational loop can be completely closed.

She and Lee will also be glad to know that work has already started on private posts and conversations and posting to limited audiences as well. Eventually there will be no functionality that a social web site/silo can do that a distributed set of independent sites can't. There's certainly work to be done to round off the edges, but we're getting closer and closer every day.

I know how it all works, but even I'm impressed at the apparent magic that allows round-trip conversations between her website and Twitter and Micro.blog. And she hasn't really delved into website to website conversations yet. I suppose we'll have to help IndieWebify some of her colleague's web presences to make that portion easier. Suddenly "academic Twitter" will be the "academic blogosphere" she misses from not too many years ago. :)

If there are academics out thee who are interested in what Kathleen has done, but may need a little technical help, I'm happy to set up some tools for them to get them started.