@Tamaracks There's no need to explicitly set a Post Format in WordPress as it will automatically be set based on the Post Kind setting in Post Kinds on initial publish. (You can also tweak them by hand if necessary, so for example when using the `note` kind it automatically sets the Post Format to `aside`, but I prefer to use `status`, so I replaced `aside` with `status` just under 'note' => array( in the code here: https://github.com/dshanske/indieweb-post-kinds/blob/master/includes/class-kind-taxonomy.php

I also think @dshanske fixed the proper kind settings on micropub in the latest development branch of post kinds as well. https://github.com/dshanske/indieweb-post-kinds/issues/87 (Hopefully this should take care of checkins as well.)

@cdevroe I'll agree with Jeremy that you don't need to syndicate content or even backfeed to be a part of the Indieweb. Particularly when you're already doing the primary tenets: own your domain, own your data, publish on your own site. (Ideally this is what everyone should be doing in conjunction with webmentions and then all the social networks would be superfluous.)

I like the ability to put URLs on crossposted versions as well.

If you include the ability to link to cross posted versions, particularly for hosted, be sure to include a u-syndication (microformat) class on it: see also: http://indieweb.org/u-syndication

For those on WordPress, it would be nice if there were built in support for the Syndication Lins plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/syndication-links/ which covers several other services that POSSE copies and shows syndication links as well for post discovery.

It looks like you may be using the Post Kinds plugin, so you should be able to reply to other sites using that and putting the requisite URL into the interface under "Post Properties" and including your response. The plugin will include the necessary u-in-reply-to microformat class and your webmention plugin will handle sending the response. If you'd like, you can try responding directly to this post at its permalink.

An alternate method is to use the Indieweb Press This bookmarklet for replies (if you're using the Indieweb Plugin) . You can find the bookmarklets at your /wp-admin/tools.php page about halfway down. Then you can click the bookmarklet on the page you'd like to reply to and it will craft a part of the post to send the reply and then you just add what you wanted to say before publishing to send the webmention.

@swissmiss Delving into @adactio's suggestion a bit deeper, here's a whole list: http://indieweb.org/Posts_about_the_IndieWeb as well as https://indieweb.org/site-deaths

I like the idea of the shared stories here. In some sense, it's part of the power of the indieweb wiki pages which conglomerate examples of how various people have implemented and documented pieces of how they've done things. on their websites. It's even better as a clearing house of these examples which are otherwise sometimes hard to find and come across.

Congratulations @t on 100 Days of Positive Posts! #100DoPP Thanks for making the world kinder and richer! #indieweb

Perhaps I'm not quite reading your meaning properly, but I'm curious about the portion about your having turned off comments. I also notice your link requesting to "Comment on this at Medium". Both seemed odd to me as some of the benefit of having an indieweb site is having things set up to have better two way communication with others, while still owning the and having control and agency over the conversation.

This being said, I have, however, been considering turning off generic public (and anonymous) comments in favor of receiving comments only via webmentions. I think the fact that users who wish to comment on my content needing to post it on their own site first helps cut down on the spam and poorly thought out me-too commentary.

To some extent I think this was the tremendous value of Tumblr's not having a native commenting system. In their paradigm, to comment on something, one needed to put their commentary into their own personal stream first to be able to push the comment to the receiver's site as a secondary action. The social consequences of this are much stronger in terms of cutting back on a lot of junk, spam, and personal attacks because it becomes personally identifiable as representing themselves first and foremost (especially on their own site). Some of the problems Twitter and others have stem from users not really owning their content or their identities on those platforms which makes it much easier to become a nameless/faceless bully.

In some sense I think of it by analogy as a "Christmas tree effect". One purchases a wonderful Christmas tree and only puts up the useful and pretty decorations on it because it's what they and others who visit will see in broad view--often even publicly through their window from the street outside their home. Very few will go out of their way to buy a shabby looking tree and festoon it with dreadful ornaments as it's something ugly that not only they see constantly within their own home, but which will publicly brand them as such to friends, family, and even outsiders within their community.

Separately, thanks for the example your site provides. There are many subtleties you've got within your theme that I've been slowly working my way toward as well. I appreciate the way you've laid out and delineated the content. I also love the idea of a microcast which is something I've been contemplating for ages, but have never gotten around to actually doing. Your version and conceptualization are inspiring me to take another hard look at actually doing something.

Andrew, in case you don't see the notice in chat (http://indieweb.org/discuss at https://chat.indieweb.org/2017-04-18/1492547977366000) there's an HWC in Bellingham as well: https://indieweb.org/2017/Bellingham