A little while ago I added reacji to my site. Since reacji are just comments who's content contains only one emoji, I did support reacji before the change. I only changed the way I displayed them, when I send them.

One thing I noticed after my return to Facebook, is that the like-button now has several nuances. These love, haha, wow, sad, angry-things are sent by Brid.gy as emoji. Because of this, it didn't took long for me to receive my first reacji via webmention. They just showed up as comments with one emoji.

So today I fixed that:

Note that I already used a heart icon for likes. I want to keep it that way, the emoji looks different enough to distinguish them. If you comment on Facebook with a heart, they display it as a comment with a heart, and I will just show it as a like, like above. But I'm fine with that. You can also reply with other emoji if you like.

Oh, and I fixed the images now too.

In de tweeënhalf jaar dat ik niet op Facebook zat ben ik gaan geloven dat het een soort dystopisch ding is waaruit ik was losgekomen. Het gekke van dystopieën is dat de utopie er zo dicht bij ligt. Je weet dat McDonalds slecht is, maar in het moment zo lekker kan zijn.

Dus nu na tweeënhalf jaar dacht ik fak it, ik probeer het weer. Geef mij de filterbubbel, de honderden vrienden, het grote verbonden zijn. Geef me alles wat ik dacht te missen, dan geef ik je mijn data weer. Analyseer me volledig, maar vermaak me.

Maar het valt tegen. Facebook blijkt een verzameling van filmpjes en plaatjes te zijn geworden. De content is allemaal games, clickbait, politieke partijen en bedrijven die je iets willen verkopen. Het enige sociale dat eraan lijkt toegevoegd te zijn, is dat er boven elke post staat wie van mijn kennissen het leuk vond.

Waar deelt iedereen dán de mooie verhalen tegenwoordig?

Yesterday I re-activated my Facebook, for the first time since 2.5 years. Still not really sure about this silo-return, but I want to try it again. Facebook is a powerful tool, and with the other tools IndieWeb gave me, I think I can manage my relation to it better than I could 2.5 years ago.

At first sight, it might look as if IndieWeb is about stopping silo's. In that light, a return looks strange. But there is no IndieWeb principle that says you should quit Facebook or Twitter. As long as I POSSE, I own my data, and I can still connect to my silofriends.

I still want to minimise the actual time spent I on their site. So today I made the first few bridges that should make that happen: I hooked up by site to brid.gy/publish and the 'normal' Brid.gy backfeed for Facebook. Now I can post via Micropub to my site and automatically post to Facebook too. Any comments and likes received on the post on Facebook will return to my site as well.

Now I have to make some interesting content to test all this with.

Also just realised I have no-one to talk to about this. It feels so lonely, being connected again, because nobody shares that 'again' aspect of it. Everyone I know is on Facebook, or I think they are, and I don't want them to happily poke my newly activated account. I want to see what Facebook does with my account. Will it try to bring old posts under the attention of friends, to give me likes and comments, so I stay? Or will it be unnoticed?

Now I have to go to a real-life event. I will try and resist telling people about my Facebook adventure. (That's why live blogging about it in English seems a good idea. I think this will be unnoticed as well.) The nice thing is: I can just post an RSVP to a Facebook event via my site. Will hook up Brid.gy tomorrow, if I still think Facebook is a good idea then.

You guys have no idea how scary it is to log in to Facebook after 2 years. (I have been back for 15 minutes at the 0.5 year point to transfer ownership of some Pages.) My profile picture is still the one from back then (although the black and white one I use on this site is actually older). There are 97 notifications in the world-icon and I don't want to click them. I scrolled through the feed, a few posts, and they all look like personal insight in lives of people I haven't seen in years. With every move of my mouse I feel like the addiction is right around the corner. But it could be me, freaking out, because I know the countless hours I spent scrolling that page. I have no idea what I want with this.

I'm logged out again. No disabling, just logged out. We'll see tomorrow.