@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net I feel like this is a bit of a common pattern? Company builds an awesome product, makes it free for a lot of users, then create additional features and paid plans, makes a tonne of money. But then later decide they need to make more money, so focus on converting the free users to paid users. Hmmm 🤔 Surely this can’t be the only viable business model? 🤔

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@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net I’ve not gotten any such email ? 🤔 wtf?!

@xuu@txt.sour.is Yeah I’m hoping this helps keep the project going and sustainable 👌

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Saw this coming years ago when I worked for a small company that bought into VMWare as their “hypervisor” infra 😅

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Neat.. Gitea cloud for a hosted alternative to github and gitlab. https://blog.gitea.com/gitea-cloud/

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ot wow! 😮 It’s that time of year for you 😆

Oh yeah, we have our first snowfall down here. Nice thick flakes, too. Melts instantly, though.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Wow! 😮

Dragged Marlyn and our kids out tonight to see the northern lights. Never seen it with my own eyes until tonight.

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@darch@neotxt.dk Got an example request?

It need to be a proper link to the domain. And mention is linking to a profile page on the pod, so it doesn’t validate.

Does this make sense? Like my post will contain something like:

Hey @<darch http://darch.dk/twtxt.txt> blah blah

@darch@neotxt.dk But this is what I’m confused about. Why would my Twt contains a reference to http://darch.dk/social instead of http://darch.dk/twtxt.txt – which the later is what I @-mentioned? 🤔

Yarns does not generate a link back to the site that is being mentioned (eg. <a href="http://darch.dk/social">look here</a>) which is needed for validating that it is indeed a real webmention, ant not just spam. Try rereading the specs😉

I’m willing to get that Google™ is losing ad revenue from sponsored advertising and sponsors of Youtubers.

See, even a video I was just watching on Youtube just now, the guy said:

THanks for Surf Shark for sponsoring this video, it keeps the content free.

So that basically tells me that Google™ advertising on Youtube™ is utter bullshit. I have a funny feeling they’re (Google™’s) crack-down on ad-blocker is just an internal reaction to a losing battle with their ad revenue streams in the declins from their ad business.

As an aside @movq@www.uninformativ.de and I were yarning about this before… The reason this form of advertising works so well is “brand awareness”. There’s some interesting content, and you don’t mind that the guy or gal is sponsored by some company and they happen to make mention of it and even go into a special part of their video (without being annoying about it). You don’t even fast forward or anything because you already like their voice, and they’re not being completely obnoxious about what they’re promoting, and what they’re promoting isn’t complete garbage, malware or worse.

@darch@neotxt.dk I needn an example of where this breaks down I think. Do you happen to have one? 🤔 By all rights, looking at the code paths, the issue raised really doesn’t make sense to me. The Source is the Twt permalink on the source pod that contains an @-mention of the target’s Twtxt feed. So that should validate just fine hmm 🤔

@darch@neotxt.dk Hmm need to look into this 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Same ! The most powerful form of advertising for me is word of mouth and research👌 Not ad banners which I never look at (cause I’m blind) let alone click on! 🤣

So this was right all along: #1156 - Webmention: a source doesn’t mention the target - yarn - Mills

Jibii!

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@prologic@twtxt.net a link header where? It also need a link from here back to the link referred in the webmention
like this http://darch.dk/social/ and @that@darch.dk might work

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This whole thing is a but nutso though isn’t it? 🤔 I mean seriously, online ads never worked in the first place did they?! 🤔 Or are “we” just a special breed?! 🤣

@darch@twtxt.net Yeah because it doesn’t have a Link header

@prologic@twtxt.net it does not😢

SO now Linux GIzmos a website that I regularly like to subscribe to and read via RSS/Atom -> Twtxt has now suddenly gone down this path of “Please disable your adblocker, pretty please, because ads help support us!”

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@linux_gizmos@feeds.twtxt.net Oh my god! 😱

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@off_grid_living@twtxt.net What’s the significance of this? 🤔

I’m also running my pod with open registrations disabled.

@darch@twtxt.net fair enough 🤗

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@prologic@twtxt.net i am, but closed open registration long along, so don’t think anyone uses neotxt besides me. And with Twtxt-php/timeline I’m getting closer to pulling the plug now I got a working alternative.

Question for anyone still running yarnd … What would a single-user mode pod look like?

If you mention @this@darch.dk it might work, bit weird though 😅

I can see that your web page https://darch.dk/social has a <link rel="webmention" href="https://webmention.io/darch.dk/webmention"> in the page’s<head> which his good. But that is not what you’re linking to in your post, so that won’t get sent a WebMention

If you have a look at any of the feeds on my pod, they all respond with a Link: header in the response.

The reason this is not working, is there is no Link header on your feed that you’re mentiong: https://gist.mills.io/prologic/fc5290f62c07494590a7e4bc2804c126

@darch@twtxt.net It should work with any endpoint but there’s a condition around whether it fires a WebMention or not

@xuu@txt.sour.is thank you, but does it only work between yarnd pods or also to endpoints like https://webmention.io and does it it detect that I declared such an endpoint on darch.dk when someone mentions @sorenpeter@darch.dk ?

@prologic@twtxt.net So I had a look at the yarnd source code, but can’t say that I’m much wiser on how it send out webmention or how to send them to a yarnd pod. Can you break it down?

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m trying to figure out how it works to begin with and how I can make it work with my own domain http://darch.dk – See my questions above in https://neotxt.dk/conv/3x6bsna#jlrsduq

@darch@neotxt.dk No I mean, what do we want to achieve with WebMentions that doesn’t already work across pods in yarnd? One issue I see is adoption.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Bahahahahahaha 🤣

Bahaha, hilarious but also probably the future 😵

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/181mpvw/hold_it_in_for_youtube_ads/

@prologic@twtxt.net To outline what is needed for implementing webmetnion in a twtxt-webapp like twtxt-php/timeline or yarnd

Man I”m really tired today / this week 😪