Aaron Parecki

@nightpool Evan Prodromou, who wrote OStatus and the majority of StatusNet (which is what became GNU Social) is co-chair. I'm MediaGoblin co-founder. Some others are part of the IndieWeb group. @wilkie wrote OStatus. We've had, at times, people from Diaspora and OwnCloud/NextCloud active, and are actively talking to them and people from OStatus land now. It's not divorced.

Also at the beginning I actively tried to get people from Diaspora and GNU Social to join.

Unintended tagline on my #datensummit17 badge = great conversation starter: #indieweb ambassador, while mainly here on a personal mission :D

Find yourself wondering "How many browser tabs does Mike have open?" Try this: https://kmikeym.com/now (thanks @aaronpk + @beaugunderson)

Well put, Colin. A platform like Micro.blog has a great deal of potential to advance the adoption of IndieWeb building blocks like Micropub, IndieAuth, Webmention, and mf2, even if the users of Micro.blog don't know or understand any of the underlying foundations. Why? User experience! Micro.blog is simply leveraging IndieWeb technology and standards to build a platform that makes users happy. While Micro.blog is a great step forward for the IndieWeb, I still believe that the holy grail is getting native support for IndieWeb deep within WordPress core, including broad support from themes. WordPress runs over 28% of all websites, and IndieWeb support in core could be the tipping point for broad adoption.