self-hosted "status" things

finger

put the status into a plan file.

webfinger

put the status into your webfinger response somehow

as a property? or maybe a link... a link would allow you to use a URI as your status

and if you don't want it to load another page just have it be a data URI

yep.

link rel=status

should hopefully work.

wget -qO- https://thebackupbox.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:epoch@thebackupbox.net \
  | jq -r '.links[] | if .rel == "status" then .href else empty end'

this will return a URI for the status of epoch@thebackupbox.net

the 'status' rel for links in a webfinger is specified in...

which is vague enough I'm gonna use it this way.

twtxt

matrix status

(this needs an access token to view so... not very helpful for public status info)

xmpp status

I dunno yet.

probably needs some access token like matrix does

fmrl

here, read some shit: