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Add IndieWeb notes to site design doc

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Machine-friendliness
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I think making a site machine-friendly is a great alternative perspective to traditional SEO, the latter of which I think tends to incentivise low-quality content and makes searching difficult.
I think making a site machine-friendly is a great alternative perspective to traditional SEO, the latter of which I think tends to incentivise low-quality content and makes searching difficult. It's a big part of what I've decided to call ["agent optimization"](http://seirdy.one/notes/2022/06/23/agent-optimization/).
This site is **parser-friendly.** It uses polygot (X)HTML5 markup containing schema.org microdata, microformats2, and legacy microformats. Microformats are useful for IndieWeb compatibility; schema.org microdata is useful for various forms of content-extraction (such as "reading mode" implementations). I've also sprinkled in some Creative Commons vocabulary using RDFa syntax.
This site is **parser-friendly.** It uses polygot (X)HTML5 markup containing schema.org microdata, microformats2, and legacy microformats. Microformats are useful for IndieWeb compatibility; schema.org microdata is useful for various forms of content-extraction (such as "reading mode" implementations) and search engines. I've also sprinkled in some Creative Commons vocabulary using RDFa syntax.
I make Atom feeds available for articles and notes, and have a combined Atom feed for both. These feeds are enhanced with Ostatus and ActivityStreams XML namespaces.
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This site does not work well in Chromium's DOM Distiller. DOM Distiller removes all level-2 headings in article bodies. This is likely because they appear alongside section permalinks, which combines poorly with a DOM-Distiller heuristic that strips out sections with a high link-density. DOM Distiller also does not show footnotes, and sometimes cuts off final sections (acknowledgements, conclusions).
Static IndieWeb
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One of my goals for this site was to see just how far I could take IndieWeb concepts on a fully static site with ancillary services to handle dynamism. Apart from the search-results page, this site is static on the back-end (all pages are statically-generated). All pages, including the search-results page, are fully static on the front-end (no JS).
[The IndieMark page](https://indieweb.org/IndieMark) lists all the ways you can "IndieWeb-ify" your site.
### Features I have already implemented
- IndieAuth compatibility
- Microformats: representative `h-card`, in-text `h-card` and `h-cite` when referencing works, `h-feed`.
- Sending and receiving Webmentions
- Displaying Webmentions in the form of link-backs and likes (inspired by Tumblr).
- Backfeeding content from silos: I'm only interested in backfilled content containing discussion, not "reactions" or "likes". Powered by Brid.gy
### Features I am not interested in
- Authoring tools, either through a protocol (e.g. MicroPub) or a dynamic webpage: I prefer writing posts in my `$EDITOR` and deploying with `git push`, letting a CI job build and deploy the site with `make deploy-prod`. This allows me to participate with the social Web using the same workflow I use for writing code.
- Full silo independence: I want to treat my site as a "filtered" view of me that I want to keep searchable and public. On other silos I might shitpost or make low-effort posts. These aren't private, but I want them to remain less prominent. I POSSE content to other places, but I don't exclusively use POSSE.
- Sharing my likes, favorites, reposts: I find these a bit too shallow for seirdy.one. I prefer "bookmarks" where I can give an editorialized description of the content I wish to share along with any relevant tags. I'll keep simple likes and reposts to silos.
- Rich reply-contexts: I'd rather have users click a link to visit the reply and use quoted text to respond to specific snippets, similar to interleaved-style email quoting.
### Features I am interested in
- WebSub. Had some issues with Superfeedr; I think I'll resort to running my own single-user hub.
- Automatic POSSE to the Fediverse (would be difficult with reply-contexts).
- Tags and topics.
- Displaying (truncated) Webmention entry contents instead of just titles and timestamps.
### Low-priority features I have some interest in
- RSVPs: I don't attend many events, let alone events for which I would broadcast my attendance. A page for this would be pretty empty.
- Event posts: same reason as above.
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