Homebrew Website Club

Ben Werdmüller:

what we've changed @withknown this week is onboarding - now you get something that explains what you can do instead of a blank screen

Jon Pincus:

how does a community site change when you want to engage in private conversations?

you can now log onto our site Tapestries using indieauth, and can use a public profile to log into other indieauth sites

there is a problem of how you block or mute bad actors in conversations

Tantek Çelik:

I added a mute page to the wiki, but we don't have implementations yet

I've been adding to the wiki what all the features you would need to build a twitter for yourself

I made a list at http://indiewebcamp.com/twitter#features of things I'd need to build to stop using twitter.com

Kevin Marks:

I'm fascinated by @iroc's flaminga that filters twitter client side: http://madebycori.com/flaminga/

Jon Pincus:

when I was doing political activism on twitter people tried to shout me down, I used block then

Tantek Çelik:

if you look at @ladygaga's or @barackobama's replies they are mostly requests to follow or crap

Kevin Marks:

twitter have special features for the verified users that show them a cleaner twitter - verified users only mode

Tantek Çelik:

but everyone else still sees the noise and crap on famous people's posts

the best block implementation was @flickr's - when you block someone the history doesn't just become invisible to you

when you block on @flickr it deletes all their comments on your photos, and their favorites of yours and they unfollow you

Ben Werdmüller:

twitter is getting a lot of flak for their abuse policies in general - I expect they will review this

Tantek Çelik:

we only get less webmention spam than trackbacks and twitter spam because it has a higher barrier to entry

Ben Werdmüller:

the cool thing when everyone has their own readers is that there is no place to centrally spam