 So except for Joseph. Does anybody actually know what micropub is or have any clue other than? Okay, we're gonna have some fun then This shouldn't work So if you go to boffosako.com the last post five minutes ago We'll have a link to the slides that you can open up. It's got some clickable stuff and fun things you can pull through so let's start with 12 years ago how many people were on early Twitter when there were like 5,000 clients and you could post a Twitter using almost anything on the planet Does anybody go back that far? Oh That's sad. So that's this is why we have a problem that we do today So they used to have a nice open API anybody could post a Twitter Hundreds and hundreds of clients and eventually they shut that all off and now you use one of maybe Ten clients to post a Twitter and who owns all of those clients? Can anybody guess? Twitter yeah, of course So can anybody name for me? I think maybe there's like five or six ways to post a WordPress right now Can anybody name some of them or your favorites? Okay email is an option I think it's in court. Yeah Yeah, there's phone apps for iOS and Android and probably maybe even one other how else Obviously the admin UI right or Gutenberg now is an option Goop there's a Google Docs add-in that you can post and that's actually new I think in the last year And then there's some old legacy X XML RPC clients like use Lissie's There are some standalone clients that are built for Particularly blogging and blog posts that you can create content in hit publish and it will update your website automatically So what I'm going to talk about today is a new method of doing this in a new way of doing this That has a lot more Power and flexibility So I think we're about a year and a half in This is a W3C recommendation now. It's been built It's coded in Probably half a dozen different languages if not more it's supported by several dozen clients and several dozen servers These will be some basic resources you can take a look at this is the technical specification I don't recommend anyone reads this unless you're a developer and you really desperately need to read it better Resources are on indie web org There's a list of clients that work and a list of servers a Lot of this stuff is super duper open source and a half a dozen different programming languages So very rarely would you need to go write something for yourself from scratch? You can probably take code someone else's written Repurpose a lot of it to get yourself pretty far so The nice part about micropub is it isn't wordpress specific Which things like a Gutenberg or wordpress's own admin UI are so obviously you can't use Yep, I know there's a project right now. Somebody's working on adapting Gutenberg So you can use it to post a Drupal, but otherwise all those four or five options We mentioned for posting to your wordpress site only exist within the wordpress ecosystem and nowhere else But micropub is built in such a way that you can post to wordpress. You can post a Drupal There's some CMS is like with known that have an endpoint built into it to accept data to post to it with any of these types of apps There's also a handful of static site generators that you can post to as well If you were a company like medium or wix or square space My guess is you could put two developers on it for two or three days build a server to accept Micropub into your website and then all of these clients we're going to talk about today would then be usable for those platforms as well So this is the fun one that we're all here today and we're going to chat about this particular one It's a plug-in in the main repository about a year ago It was updated to the most recent version of the Micropub W3C spec It also has some Extensions onto it, but even more fun It's now fully integrated into the word presses into word presses rest API So you can go a lot further a lot farther with it Prior to about July of last year. It was written in pure PHP So it was a little harder to to deal with in terms of Standard Standard code For those who are using Gutenberg You can either use that or the classic editor. It will work with both. It doesn't It's not integrated into Gutenberg anyway So there aren't any direct issues that anybody I know has seen or experienced up to this point. So configuration if You're going to create a client that you can use or multiple clients that we can use to post a word press How much configuration do we think is going to be required for a plug-in like this? Anybody got any Guess any ideas? Oh? Wait There's nothing there. Oh, there's no configuration really so you download the plug-in you install it you activate it You're done and it should just work trademark, right There I think there's one small set as set up in the settings and the writing admin that will allow you to choose Data for post come into your website. Are they? Published automatically are they drafts or are they private? I think that's the one setting that actually exists, but other than that. It's it's pretty straightforward So if you're going to let some outside client post to your website The first thing you got to be really worried about is authentication and authorization Is everybody used either I'd probably the two more common ones are Twitter and Facebook both have OAuth 2 implementations that you can let's say sign up to Squarespace and to authenticate and create a square space or not square space a sound cloud account That's probably a better example So you want to create a sound cloud account you actually log into Facebook Facebook does the little OAuth 2 dance and then you end up and oh now you have a New account on a new social service How awesome would it be if we could do that but with WordPress be pretty cool wouldn't it that actually already exists Somebody's built it It's not only OAuth 2 compatible, but it includes a thing called indie off That's an extension of OAuth 2 so the Micropub plug-in has this piece of authentication and authorization built into it But if you want there's a more powerful version Called indie off that's in the plug-in repository that'll do this exact same thing and as we go through I'll show you examples of What this looks like? So these are the if you're a developer or coder these are the types of Scopes that these clients will ask or could potentially ask your website will you let me do these things? So create new posts update things delete things undelete them or post media to them So if you want to post photos or let's say audio files to your media Portion of your WordPress site, it'll be able to do all of these things So The fun part is now here's a handful of examples of Micropub clients Quill is probably one of the strongest built and most flexible versions of this and if you can imagine Using it's fairly similar to medium comms experience or now even the Gutenberg Editor experience where you can quickly type in and create little blocks, but if you imagine word medium comms editor Quill is very similar to that so you can use an interface similar to that to post to your WordPress site the two next on that list own your swarm and own your gram are implementations That will allow you to connect your swarm or four square accounts or your Instagram account to your WordPress site On a very regular basis. I take photos with Instagram's super over-engineered mobile app and I post them to my Instagram account and Own your gram Watches that account and is authorized to post to my site on its behalf So it will scrape out all of my Instagram data and mirror it exactly on my website date and time stamps GPS coordinates location data and names It'll take the title or little post that I put on all that data moves over to my website And then I also have a little piece that takes all the comments and likes and sucks those back into the comment section on that same piece of content So if Instagram were to just disappear off the planet tomorrow through the use of micropub and its friend Web mention I own all of my Instagram data and I wouldn't miss a beat I wouldn't care other than losing the friends who are only stuck on the Instagram But those two work essentially the same Omni bear is a fun little browser extension for chrome and Firefox that implements Micropub and it allows you to posts bookmarks likes replies and Short status updates or notes From your browser bar So if you're on a web page that you want to share with someone you can bookmark it save it to your website Instantaneously and share it out from there T cup is a fun little app That will allow you to track what you're eating or drinking and it literally the only data it takes are The thing you're eating the thing you're drinking the date and timestamp and if you want the location you can optionally send the location But there is an implementation. I think on an iOS watch app that with about two clicks you can save that you know That cocktail you're drinking right now to your website and Either you can keep it public private whatever you want But you can save that data almost instantaneously and it's faster than posting to any To any other social media website. I think then anything I've seen there's a Micropub Client called Indie book club or Indie book club biz you can take things you're reading right now Use that service and it will post to your website to say hey, I'm reading this book or this article this thing There's another one that's fairly similar to quill called micropublish net that will let you do I think full-length articles status updates Bookmarks likes replies and maybe one or two others There's another one called screech if you're a podcaster you can create a podcast in This app and use screech to publish your audio files to your website. It's very slick These are probably I don't know eight or so of maybe 20 clients that are out there So here's an example we're gonna kind of walk through it quickly. This is what quills interface looks like you Go to the website. I Think it's quill that p3k.io as the domain name the link on here will take you to it But you log in with your domain name so in my case I type in bafo soco comm I hit sign in it Takes me to the very common looking wordpress login and says Ask me do I want to give it the ability to create posts update posts or post media to my own website? I Can pick and choose which ones I want to allow it and then I click authorize and This is a very familiar OAuth to dance and it takes me immediately back to the posting interface for this client Compared to wordpress's admin UI is this clean dirty better worse Than what they've got you still have to give it your password at some point I don't give it my password at all it uses it's I just I just OAuth to it into my website Okay, so I couldn't do this for my phone and just nope You can't you can't go to this and type in bafo soco comm and I Have to be logged into my website for that to happen So if I if I wasn't logged in I would have gotten a login screen that logs me in and then it would have said hey You know so it knows I'm logged in automatically and and goes to the next step I I could have sure I could have thrown that one in there, but essentially I just used OAuth to To get into my website. Yeah Essentially. Yeah, it just takes it and dumps it right in So this is the interface for posting a status update or Twitter set up So you'll notice it's got a a tweet counter up here I can put in tags if I want I can put in a slug. I can add a photo I have a few end points on my website to let me send it to another news service to Twitter or If I want to post it to github I could post it to github and then there's a little checkbox that says Look up my location and send my GP GPS coordinates to my website as well So then we come down to the bottom and you hit post so instead of being Assaulted with the 57 meta boxes in the classic editor or The crazy business that Gutenberg now does for me to create a quick status note on my own website This is a pretty quick simple slick solution I hit publish and this is literally what it looks like on my own website. So I've got the note here It's taken the GPS coordinates my site knows what to do with that and gives me a full address My site even goes out and looks up what the weather was in that location where I'm at and then it it shows I've syndicated it to a wordpress.com address and to a Twitter account and if you click on that Twitter bird It will take you to the copy that got sent to Twitter automatically. So I literally logged into this client typed a few words Couple checkboxes hit publish it lives live on my site. It goes automatically To wordpress or to Twitter and then if you're using some other indie web Tools like web mention if you go to my Twitter account right now and click like or reply to this We can at the end of the talk. I'll pull it up But any interactions that happen with this post on Twitter I'll come back to this same post on my website in the comment section and get displayed there So again who's here's another example if Twitter disappears and gets bought out next week or shut down or something happens to it Everything I've posted to it in the last four or five years lives on my website with all the commentary and notes and interactions that went with it This is the bigger kind of quill interface once you look at it It gives you the ability to post full articles in a medium or Gutenberg like way these these are notes You can do events bookmarks likes reposts it You may have to do some work with wordpress to make it support itineraries But it'll do likes email and I think that's GPS location if I'm not mistaken So you can choose any of those options and they provide you with simple Versions like this is the interface for an article. So you put in a title type your post If you want to go over here, there's a little click button that you can add photos So it's a full text editor essentially and then when you hit publish at the top It sends that data to your website and because your website has this plug-in that knows exactly what to do with all the data It's being fed You can post it to your website Bang zoom you're done This is an example of a bookmark so you can throw a URL in there give it a name a description tags if you want and With a little bit of setup you can create Syndication points to send your data to other social services if you want There's also for a few of these types There's a quick bookmarklet that you can drag to your browser bookmarklet bar So that when you're on a website, you can click bookmark It will automatically fetch the URL put it in there automatically in fact on my website. I think I'm using There's a tool called press this that just got taken out of core in the last year That was used to make Bookmarklet posting to WordPress easy. They took it out of core and it's now a plug-in But if I use this tool and a bookmarklet it will pull the URL in send it to my website my website will then go parse that page and I think it uses Microformats first Schema JSON LD and as a super fallback It will use a og meta tags To scrape that page to pull out the title the description of the page in a featured post So if you go to look at bookmarks on my website After I hit publish My website literally just takes the URL and it sucks in all the rest of the data to create a post on my site To say I've bookmarked something But it's super slick and super quick and easy In fact, here's one for this is probably the easiest interface if there's a tweet that I want to like I Can put a favorite bookmarklet in my browser bar Click on it while I'm on that tweet. It'll suck the you will permalink for that you are tweet URL Send it to my website to post it as a like and it will also Automatically in this case this has a back-end with Twitter's API that it'll automatically like that tweet on my behalf In a quick easy way But if you want to like something online and you want to own the fact that you liked that so you can remember it and have It on your own website off now in the future sometime That this one one field not 50 fields on your website that you need to fill in or worry about Here's a Here's an example of teacup So it gives you recent things a few default drinks coffee beer cocktails food burritos burgers a Checkbox for the location and then you can't see it. It's cut off But there's a little post button at the bottom, which is what makes this UI really simple enough to do from an Apple watch Oh Wait, there's more To me One of the reasons we all are addicted to Twitter and Facebook We don't if we think about it in this perspective wordpress is 99% posting interface so when you go to wordpress and you're gonna create content It's all posting interface and then you hit publish and it's there But nowhere on your website is there a feed reader for you to see and read other people's content Whereas when you look at Twitter and Facebook It's 99% reading interface and only maybe one or two percent posting interface And that's what and they make it super easy for you to post Well, you don't need to worry about that with wordpress anymore because now with micropub It's way easier to post almost any type of content to your website But what if there were feed readers that you could read and While you're in the reader you could type a reply to something and hit publish with micropub It's using this API backends that works with all these other CMSs not even just wordpress, but you can write a reply and hit publish That reply goes to your website and lives there. So you always have a copy of it and if you add the Web mention plug-in you can send It's essentially a new web mentions a new version of trackback or pingback But on acid and it makes things look the way you would expect them to look in a traditional comment section So I can in a reader type a reply hit publish It goes on my website my website sends a ping to the thing I'm replying to to say hey, I mentioned you over there and then the other side that gets to decide Do I want to display that on my side as a comment or not? But it creates a full circle posting and reading interface Within now a wordpress specific setup They're in the micro sub world Micro sub is another spec that essentially takes a feed reader and splits it into it creates the Heavy infrastructure of polling for feeds and it creates a separate structure for how those are displayed So you can build a server and build a reader Client interface and those two are totally separate things So if you're trying to build a new feed reader and you're a UI person You don't need to know all the feed reading specs to be able to do that You can rely on a client to do that heavy lifting for you But it also means there now are Micro pub clients like indigenous that I'm not only work as a simple feed reader But if you want to post a note or an article to your website from it, it'll do that as well so it's not only a reader, but it's a posting interface and Somebody is in the midst. I give them maybe six months and there is a wordpress based micro Subserver that you can subscribe to all of your feeds on your own website Read them there and suddenly your wordpress site is not just a posting interface, but it's now a reading interface as well Hello Steve Jobs So what's the fun of this? Obviously, it's pretty easy to use if you're a beginner you can download the plug-in start using some of these clients now It's easy to log into them and authenticate and start using them, but if you're a developer There is a micro pup rock Test suite so if you're building a client or a server there's all kinds of stuff you can test it against In addition to a lot of open-source code that's been written already Obviously, there's some huge network effects if you can write a posting interface that not only works just with wordpress but could work with Drupal and Joomla and Every other CMS on the planet There's more incentive you could run something like that as a business Which is what a lot of Twitter developers originally started out doing was they were building these Really lovely interfaces to interact with Twitter until Twitter pulled the rug out from underneath them Micro pub is completely open source. It's a W3C spec So you could very easily build a business for creating client interfaces for this type of stuff and Obviously because it is leveraging OAuth 2 there's a lot more privacy and security Versus some of the old You know you got to be really old to know what meta web log was or atom pub even back in the day So there's a handful of Experimental extensions on micro pub that exist already so things like visibility is the post you send to your website Public or private wordpress the wordpress implementation already does this so you get to choose It'll also do location visibility you Can pull in data from your wordpress website into a micro pub client Which is a fun thing for editing posts and that's one of the fun features of micro pub Haven't seen anybody built it yet. I've heard rumors. There are one or two working on it But if you have micro pub servers that work for Drupal and wordpress You can use this query feature to pull data Let's say from the horrible Drupal site. You don't enjoy anymore pull all that data out of your Drupal site into a third-party client and then you can hit publish to your brand-new wordpress install and Suddenly you now have a one-to-one import export that is seamless between two massive CMS's and probably Imagine sometime in the next two years somebody's going to finish building this infrastructure So that you can move from one CMS to another almost instantaneously in in a standards based way So why is all this fun other than you now have all these new clients that you can post to your website with Part of it is a plurality you can Because it's an open spec and it works on the web anywhere you can code it in any language You want you could come up with a totally JavaScript? You know definition of this you can write it in PHP rust pearl Whatever language you want to write it in and my guess is most of the major languages are out there Somebody's written an implementation in that language already. So in The open-source world you don't even need to do it yourself But my favorite thing is better UI So one of the things I loved about all the competition in Twitter clients when you could do that Was most of the Twitter clients that were out there were actually nicer Publishing interfaces to post a Twitter than Twitter Twitter zone service itself Somebody had an early web UI for how post a Twitter worked Earlier today and it was just the ugliest thing ever and it's really not that pretty now, but It opens up to a lot more innovation. So the nice part is Let's say tomorrow medium.com pivoted for the sixth seventh time they could take what has been called the billion dollar typewriter and Support micropub and you could use their lovely fancy interface Authenticate to your WordPress website Create your content in medium and then when you hit publish instead of it publishing to a medium URL Or maybe it does that too, but it also sends all that data to your WordPress site And so suddenly now you can leverage that pretty posting interface and maybe medium charges five bucks a Month for that. I I would actually pay for that over five bucks a month for content that they might want to feed me But the nice part is it Micropub's already supported in a half a dozen CMSs So it becomes an actual business opportunity Because you can use it to publish everywhere and not just On WordPress So custom interfaces how many agency people are developers we have who have clients who are Irksome and annoying to them For the camera I'll say everybody in the room raise their hand The nice part about this is you don't have to train your clientele as much You don't have to show them what all these meta boxes or how Gutenberg works. You can say here's where the title goes Here's where the body goes. Here's how you add a photo hit publish. You're done. It's very simple There's nothing Additional above and beyond that I mentioned the import-export piece earlier So we can wrap up with this What if Gutenberg itself? Were a micropub client? Somebody I imagine within the next year is going to take the finished version of what Gutenberg is and you can log into a WordPress.com or WordPress.org site compose everything in Gutenberg and hit publish and Maybe not necessarily publish it to your WordPress site, but let's say maybe Squarespace Opens up a little and adds an endpoint. You can add it there So if you have I'll be around if you have additional questions, but there's a bunch of resources at indieweb.org There is a 24-7 live chat where There are an inordinate number of people who've either Implemented this in multiple languages or for multiple platforms if you have questions and you want to build something yourself they are super helpful and Even if somebody can't help you at 3 a.m. In the in in the US time There's somebody in Europe who's awake who's done this who probably can help you out They have both a general chat and a developer channel depending on what level you want to get this up and working with And That's all we've got so questions comments, snide remarks Yeah That's because you're you're typing raw words in here to compose it And when you publish it to your website your websites taking it as standard paragraph Setups and your your websites doing the theming for that so your website has the CSS to take those pieces Now if you want to do other custom Set up like that you easily could do that and send that data along as well I'm not aware off-hand of any clients that have done that for doing like uber custom level inline CSS although I imagine you could probably type raw HTML into that quill editor to get inline styles if you wanted to I Haven't tried it personally, but it's it's it's generally sending raw HTML as a Push and pull requests or get requests and doing it that way so Yes, so with GDPR style stuff where people will one day decide they want to delete their Twitter account And let's say you and I have had Twitter conversations that end up on your website What happens? What happens when? You know obviously I delete my Twitter that won't affect your personal website, but as the website owner you accountable for the fact that I Corresponded with you in the past. Does that create some sort of legal gray area? I could be if I were in Europe, but I'm not in Europe and Most of GDPR I think your big swaths of it don't apply to small personal websites If now if I'm a major corporation Yeah, then I'm responsible and I if you at you see that data is there and ask for it to be removed I would be responsible for removing it. I think okay, so there is that if your site is using the web mention setup and You reply to my site directly Web mention supports the ability to delete posts and send for 10s So you could send a Delete and then re-web mentioned my website and my website would respect that and automatically remove that comment So yeah, that exists Yep Or at least would delete publicly from my site I could still I could still keep the data in the back end of my website, but it would unpublish it essentially So yeah, they've thought of that. Yeah, I Don't know Yeah, there was a Go back here. There's a tags So what happens in this case? And I think in quill it's comma separated and it creates a discrete tag so what it does is it'll send that data your WordPress site and the Micropub plug-in Will check first to see does that already exist and if it does If it does as a category, it'll put it in a category and then secondarily it'll create It'll put it as a tag if it doesn't exist. It'll create a new tag for it as a default To my knowledge so it so it most of Most of these clients use tags as a kind of general catch-all whereas WordPress separates categories and then tags is two separate taxonomy levels But if I send it a Category and a tag in this field My website will know. Hey, there's a category with that name So I'm going to use the category and then the other one then becomes a tag so it'll it'll do that automatically and different Different servers will have different implementations that so it may be drastically different in terms of how that's implemented in Drupal Because Drupal uses different taxonomy setups So each each individual CMS can make those decisions of what the end point It's going to receive data and it's going to know what the data is going to be marked up in such a way that it'll know What to do with those pieces of data or things like? Wordpress has fields and it has Meta places where you can store GPS coordinates, but let's say you haven't set up anything on your Site to show those GPS coordinates or do anything with them So it won't display them, but it'll save them in the meta for you four or five years later on So the data will exist in your website and it'll be in the database And then it's up to you to decide what to do with that and how do you display it or not on my thinking my example? You know, I show it as a little, you know arrow icon and Because I'm logged in you can actually see okay that I'm posting from my home But if you're not logged into my website and you look at this You I don't think you'll see you won't see that location set up and you may you may not see the weather either But it's it's up to you as the website owner just to decide how do I display? But most of the generic stuff things like photos Articles that you may write or status updates are just going into the body as kind of bulk text Yes Yeah, and you can because of the way the Indie off Implementation is set up. You can have a multi user site So each user can log in with so typically what you'll do in that case. You won't use on my side It's baphosako.com and it uses the root domain But if you've got a multi author site, you would use the author slash author name URL that exists on Core functionality you'd use that URL and log in with that and then it would authenticate and give that person a bearer token For that client so each person in each account on a per account or per user basis is then Authenticated to post with whichever clients they It's not at the moment it's within the implementation and there are a handful of both filters and hooks that you can play around with When it accepts so the default I think is if you throw a photo in there It's going to show up in the body of the text But you can play around with the data that's coming into your endpoint and say Take the first photo and make that the the featured image so to speak So So now instead of the five we had in the early slide ways and my guess is almost none of you Except for maybe Joseph is posting by email and even then I bet you he probably But my guess is most of you use maybe two methods at best to post to your site now you have about 20 that are quick and simple and easy and Way less UI way less cruft than you did before Personally and since we've got a few minutes. I can pull it up if I can get this guy to go away So I have This is the front page of my website so I have a handful of additional post types So in my mind post formats didn't go far enough with their seven or eight So we can do a couple examples. What's a what's a fun one? Here's a custom one. So if I annotate and highlight stuff on websites I use a tool for it That tool then uses it uses a simple rss feed, but it will pull in the URL I'm using the URL It goes and automatically scrapes the title the photo and the author link and name and then Gives you the highlighted text that I found Just for fun you can you can click on a little You can click on a little link and it'll take you to that page and scroll down so you can see here's the thing I actually annotated with the highlight of the thing that I physically annotated Sure So blue is posts oranges comments, and then this goes back five years So you can tell when I started owning more of my data instead of posting it just a Twitter or Facebook I started owning it all in a big chunk and Have gotten you know all my social media comments I get more from Twitter and GitHub So I can actually on my own website I can post issues to GitHub I write it and compose it on my website. I hit publish Syndicate it to GitHub It puts it on to GitHub because GitHub has an API for doing this and then if you reply to that GitHub Issue or Q or whatever it is I have a service that will scrape that data bring it back to my website and show you what that looks like So that gets pulled back in so If you have questions about how to own more of your data and social media silos I Have Dramatically but I also now have Way more internal cross-linking and linking out to other things so when I search for a Lot of times when I search for names of friends that I know directly Who have commented either in social media areas or on my site if I do Google searches for them in their photos Almost all of them come from my own website High up in Google image searches because the SEO on my site is way better than it is on anything They're doing in social media. So all their photos are from me in my site rather than from their Impressions It's also taking your search criteria. Well, it knows that you search your site on Google a lot So it will prioritize that as well. Yeah, so I commented back to you on the testing out Will with word press posts. It's purely safe for For yeah, okay, but I want to see if my reply So which post for this one testing out will with word press So here so here I put when I logged in this morning I checked in on swarm and we can go to swarm and see this is what it looks like It's gonna make me log in to see it because it was private But here's the photos I took as I walked in this morning and checked in and that stuff automatically lives on my website I sent a tweet this morning But it came from my so I use word press essentially as my Twitter client of choice I post on my site and actually I post in quill which post to my site and then sends it to Twitter Yeah, and whether you're using the nice part is if you're a designer developer and you want to create an application To post to word press some custom. It can be anything you want, you know Food related I'm waiting for somebody to do something exercise related so you can take your Apple watch and say hey This is my you know hit one touch and here's my pulse rate right now After I'm exercising log it to my website, but you can log it privately So that it's not public facing I'm three quarters of the content of my website is on the back end and only I can see it So which one was it the testing this one So I sent you a comment on Twitter. No, so here's So there's your comment shows up and it shows here too that it came from Twitter And if I want I can click on it and go see your original and the threaded comment So that the other nice part too and most people don't know this on my if I click reply, there's actually a There's a custom URL that Wordpress gives so if I reply to you, this is the URL I would send to Twitter and That allows then the conversation to be threaded both Entirely on my site and entirely on Twitter. So you have no idea ever In is in most senses that I'm replying from my website and that the entire conversation is mirrored on my site You choose to use Twitter and hey good on you. That's your problem Yeah, which is actually a really cool feature that they implemented to let you know what How they're interacting with so when I Within then there's some settings in the web mention plug-in that'll allow me to to a face pile likes and replies for journalists and Bigger publications. We've been working on one called reads so What just happened there? So typically I'll put every I don't always post them publicly But I log everything I read online if I read an article or a piece of a page I have a little bookmarklet that automatically takes the URL scrapes it gives me all of this data Date and timestamps it and then if I want to add tags or categories and that way for months from now when you ask Me a question. Oh, I read this article somewhere. I can actually look for it on my website find it Here's your link you can read the same thing I read But this sends notifications to everybody who read those things so Let's see if I can find a good one. I Think she sent me one recently. I think she accept accepts them. So I read this post on Kimberly Hersh's website And somewhere down here. Oh, she's she doesn't have the thing But it says reading and there are a couple indicators that a few people read this post Which is a different semantic level of I liked it which on Twitter means how much nothing like it means I read the headline. Okay, great Or in her case, she's got a few mentions So if you click on those it will take you to web pages where people actually Physically mentioned this URL on her site in her thing Let's see a couple of them came from my website But she's not she's chosen not to do the full URL where those mentions came from she's hiding that data and So it only says that it's it's me this website mentioned her not But you know as you saw two minutes ago when I searched for I got to her page from the place where actually mentioned her so Most importantly she gets to choose how her website displays information rather than Then just letting the platform. Yeah. Yeah So if there's abuse and you're getting spam from Twitter, let's say you can hide all that stuff or Because wordpress has both a kismet for spam as well as other tools you can filter spam out, but you can also Choose to leave it in the moderation queue and not actually publish it on your website because you don't agree with Maybe their politics, maybe So, yeah