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Great post!

Webmentions are indeed not super straightforward to implement if you are building them yourself, but the same could be said about any comment system.

The difference is a lot of CMSs and tools have already abstracted the complexity of comments but not so much with webmentions. But I am sure that will change with increased adoption.

Yeah it's super handy! Although I sometimes find my server doesn't always generate a preview.

I actually just moved the repo this week and need to update that old one. New repo is https://github.com/alltogethernow/web

Thanks Johan! I put a bit of work into how to subscription functionality for this newer version so I'm glad you like it

Whatsapp is not nearly as bad. It doesn't need any personal details apart from a phone number and everything is end to end encrypted. I'm sure Facebook will get some tracking and ads in there at some point but they haven't yet.

Yup and my photos cannot do myself or the scenery justice. I also need to get around to posting the rest of my travel photos. I am a bit slow with those

See https://grant.codes/2017/11/23/5a172628023c9d2ae6fbbe9a for reasons why

Renting a vehicle is the best way to go if you can. And I would say most of Utah or the North Pacific Coast are probably some of the best places to visit

Good writeup! I love having my instagram feed in my reader. I did it the same way.

On your caveats:

• I manage to automatically syndicate stuff to instagram , but it uses their unofficial api and could die at any time.
• I think you discovered that you can only have once instagram cookie per browser at a time, so whenever that expires / changes is when the session is expired and you need to update granary. I don't know how long it lasts, but if you never touch instagram in the browser it is quite a while.

I can also highly recommend doing something similar for twitter via granary if you don't already have that set up.

In the future I hope to integrate granary into together in someway to make it trivial to follow public instagram and twitter accounts :)

Ah ok, I think you have RelMeAuth setup but you also need to set your authorization endpoint like: <link rel="authorization_endpoint" href="https://indieauth.com/auth">

Hmm having a look manually I can't see your authorization endpoint. How is it set up?