Aaron Parecki

"Standing against this tide of centralization is the indie web movement. Perhaps “movement” is too strong—it’s more an aesthetic of independence and decentralization. The IndieWebCamp web page states: “When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation.” You should own your information and profit from it. You should have your own servers. Your destiny, which you signed over to Facebook in order to avoid learning a few lines of code, would once again be your own."

"Worst of all, even if we make all the necessary development changes that would be required to continue supporting these networks, there’s no guarantee that they wouldn’t just change their APIs again."

"Let’s pretend that instead of building a single company, a group of engineers got together and built an ecosystem. Like email, but taking in the lessons we’ve learnt, the new communication modes we’ve stumbled across, in the past decades. Multiple servers and services compete and coordinate in equal measure, advancing the whole and being pushed to their limits. Some servers compete on individual privacy, others compete by exchanging privacy for enriched services. Maybe some services even have Moments, who knows. Space for everyone."

This could be a way to enable some simple #indieweb interactions in an iOS client

"Yay for @indiewebcamp -- I haven't fiddled that much in my site's innards for a very long time, and it feels good. :-)"