I was convinced the World Cup was starting today. As someone who has barely missed a cup match since Korea-Japan 2002 not knowing the starting date just feels weird, but what isn’t about a World Cup in November? It goes to show how unenthusiastic I am about Qatar 2022.

Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that.

— Bill Shankly

It turns out there’s still 3 days to make up my mind on whether to watch or not.

Since I recently read that the only ethical way of watching this World Cup is on a pirate stream… and I dig that… I’ve been thinking about things I want to see and would hate to miss if I end up not watching.

1. Messi lifting the Cup - Because it would put all doubts aside on who the greatest player of all time is.

2. A goal celebration revalidating (reivindicando is the word I’m trying to translate) LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️‍🌈 - Because there’s no “jogo bonito” or “beautiful game” if you exclude people.

3. Sadio Mané kicking a ball past the QF - Because if I’m gonna root for someone, it has got to be the first team I was ever impressed by in a World Cup. (Just confirmed Sadio is ruled out through injury 😔)

It really sucks to see FIFA destroy an amazing tournament. I guess greed does break football’s golden rule: la pelota no se mancha.

Football is the most beautiful sport in the world. If one person messes up, football doesn’t have to pay. I messed up, and I paid. But the ball, the ball doesn’t stain.

— Diego Armando Maradona

Inspired by FollowLists, I added a Following page on my website. It’s simple and rudimentary but serves its purposes: owning my Follows. Since it’s powered by the Mastodon API there’s room for integration with other services, but for the time being, it’ll work just as a Blogroll.

I’ve been testing the waters of the Fediverse on and off since learning about the IndieWeb. I’ve tried a couple of Mastodon instances, syndicating to Bridgy + Fed and more recently a @micro.blog account.

With the recent increase in activity thanks to pElon, I’ve finally settled on a main ActivityPub profile: @kandr3s@kandr3s.co 

But until I can send “following activities" from GoBlog I signed up for an account @indieweb.social to follow all the interesting people I come across on the Fediverse and read them via RSS feed.

For the first time since joining I did an #introduction. I’m hoping to interact with more people on the open web and eventually move the whole operation to a single profile 🤞 the IndieWeb way.

For anyone following this feed sorry if it’s been (and will be) spammy. We also run tests on production here just so we can walk on the wild side… 😅

@kandr3s@im-in.space this post also tests M.b and ActivityPub replies from my website 🤞

Hey 👋 @manton, is it possible to post from Micro.blog to Micropub on the web? The iOS app supports posting via Micropub, but I couldn’t find the option on the web. Perhaps it is a paid feature?