IndieWebify.Me? Yes please!

In today's exploration of getting on the IndieWeb I try out IndieWebify.Me. It is a service where you can post a link to your website and it will tell you if you have marked up your content properly to participate on the IndieWeb.

I already have my own domain, so I proceed to the web sign-in part. When I post a link to my website, it tells me

No rel=me links could be found!

How to set up web sign-in on your own domain tells me that

visible links are preferred over invisible data, see antipattern:invisible metadata for why.

I add one link to GitHub and one to Mastodon. The links are found by the service, but it reports that my profiles elsewhere don't link back. That is probably because I submitted a link to a blog post. And my profiles don't link to a blog post, but to my main site.

When I instead post a link to my main site, the service reports that the GitHub link works. I have probably not added a link to my new blog on my Mastodon profile.

This seems good for now. What's next? It says I should add an h-card to my website. I added h-card to my blog posts yesterday. Now I guess a card is needed outside the h-entry context as well. I add one. It tells me to add a photo and bio. I do that, and it seems happy. What's next?

It gives me feedback on h-entry that I added to my blog posts yesterday. It tells me to add a link to the post itself, and that

It’s a common convention for the published datetime to be a link to the post itself, but they can be separate if you want.

I add it and it is happy. Next it suggests urls of POSSIEd copies which I don't have at the moment. And then it suggest adding p-category to tags. I do use tags, but I'm not in the mood to add them now and they don't seem essential.

I'm more interested in exploring webmentions. Because I added a link to my GitHub profile in a step above, I'm able to login to https://webmention.io using my own domain. I set up a site and include this snippet on my blog:

<link rel="webmention" href="https://webmention.io/rickardlindberg.me/webmention" />

I test webmention sending via IndieWebify.Me and it works. I can see the mention in the UI of webmention.io.

The next step here would be to automate sending webmentions when I publish content to my blog and displaying mentions on every blog post. I have a vague idea for how I want to do that, but it will require some programming on my tools. Not a task I'm up to right now. Maybe for the weekend.

I'm not quite sure I get all the microformats right. But IndieWebify.Me certainly gives me confidence that I'm not way off. It will probably serve as a useful tool when I tweak.