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I watched a great video by Lauren Kim titled “I deleted all my social media and made a website” (runtime 26:55).
She broke it into a few chapters. In “Why a website,” I liked the focus on a website as a long-term project. She also emphasized creating things for ourselves/the sake of creativity, not so much for the social validation.
Then there was the website tour itself. It was great to see how excited she was and how much thought she’d put into the whole process. I’m glad to see younger generations making these connections and working on personal websites.
The indieweb kids are alright.
@gregorlove.com she's adorable. I love that she got emotional about how constraining the social media sites are as a canvas for creativity. Inspiring.
@gregorlove.com dumb question though: how are you adding inline links to a post on Mastodon?
AP supports some set of HTML in posts. I'm using Bridgy Fed to federate my posts directly from my site, so it sends those inline links. There's some elements Mastodon doesn't support, but it usually just strips them and the plain text still works well: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#sanitization
@gregorlove.com ah, fun. It's like that one little feature that might shove me over the tipping point to finally give Bridgy a try 
One thing that's been holding me back – does it have to be fully automated? Or can I pick and choose what and when to fire things off, sort of like Buffer.
I've been holding off from any automations with POSSE and manually curating things so far, but I'm not wedded to that for Mastodon. It's sort of my human-readable RSS dumping ground at the moment anyway.
Nope, only the posts I manually trigger. I think if you wanted to post to this Mastodon account, you would use Bridgy Classic, which has an interactive form: you put in the URL of your post, it fetches the microformats from your post, then it cross-posts (not federates) the post. Bridgy Fed is actual federation, where my website is my AP identity — I don't have a Mastodon account.
It's definitely a bit more manual of a process and if you enjoy the Mastodon app experience now, it might be a downgrade in that regard. Happy to talk about it more in indieweb dev channel.