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Maybe you already know uberblogr.de, one of, if not the most well-known German web rings. It now hosts over two hundred German blogs, which is really great!

At some point, uberblogr offered the option to send a ping to inform the web ring about new updates on your own site. This led to the idea of implementing something like that as an independent service.

Maurice (@mauricerenck@mastodon.online)

There seems to be something up with the #indieConnector in combination with brid.gy. All webmentions fall back to the type „mention-of" instead of, for example, „like-of". I am pretty sure the webmention source (generated by brid.gy) previo…

There I mentioned that I have long been planning to fetch external replies, likes, and reposts myself. However, this is not as trivial as it seems at first glance.

Unfortunately, I haven't figured out why collecting replies via brid.gy is no longer working as it used to. I can't view the current logs because they end with error messages before a Webmention is sent.

So it is indeed time to tackle this feature and remove it from the upcoming-features list on GitHub. And that's exactly what I am doing.

At the beginning of the year, I wrote about switching from Feedly to Feedbin. I am still very happy with Feedbin and have subscribed to numerous blogs and other sites there — including my own.

A few days ago, something caught my eye: I had published a new post but hadn't seen it in Feedbin at all. Strange. Maybe I just overlooked it? That's easy to check. In the list of all subscriptions, I searched for my name and looked at the details of my feed:

Unlike what is shown in the screenshot here, it said that my last update in the feed was two years ago. Either time has flown by or something wasn't right with my feed.

They are back again, the blogrolls¹, the webrings², the personal websites, the new blogs and blogging events! And as if that weren't reason enough to clap your hands in delight, you also get to know many wonderful new people.

It wasn't that long ago that Mastodon was in the spotlight as a possible Twitter replacement. That didn't last long. Meta's Thread.net caused a stir for a while. During the last eXits, many users migrated to Bluesky.

This is understandable because coming from Twitter, the Bluesky interface feels familiar and intuitive. So-called starter packs that help find users to follow also added momentum.

You can argue about Bluesky – rightfully so – but many users are simply there. So it could be interesting to become active there too. Often this involves switching from one network to another – but it doesn't have to.