Jan-Lukas Else

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“Bloggers, Dump Your Twitter Card Tags”

Published on 2022-11-27 in 🔗 Links

Short link: https://b.jlel.se/s/632

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It’s crazy to think how much bandwidth is being used by metadata tags. Every company wants to invent it’s own new system. Wouter Groeneveld gives a brief overview and recommends getting rid of them (for the most part). I agree with him completely. The only one of these systems that my blog supports is Microformats, which is quite popular among the IndieWeb community.

https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/11/bloggers-dump-your-twitter-card-tags/

Tags: IndieWeb, Microformats

Interactions & Comments

FediLink @en Sure. Use #MaPleFeed instead and iframe your fediverse feed to blog https://maplefeed.bihlink.com/
Henrique Dias @en@jlelse.blog Thanks to this and Wouter’s post, I just reduced the amount of Open Graph meta tags on my website. I also decided to remove all the Twitter meta tags I was using. There is still some clutter on my website’s <head> element. I have to clean it up.
https://seblog.nl/2022/11/28/1/twitter-metadata It seems like a lot of people (W, J and H) are cleaning up their <head>. I always tried to be minimalist in my HTML (and I did meditate back when I build the current version of my site), so my head was actually already rather empty. I did however removed 'add Twitter metadata' from my personal backlog. Feels freeing.