Aaron Parecki

Yeah I have to have a Twitter account for this to work but my site just uses the Twitter API to push content there.

and here is my previous post pushed out to Twitter and visible on Mastodon! #indieweb #ftw #distribution

Every W3C working group has a defined start and end date up front, and they have to be renewed explicitly. Twitter and Facebook of course aren't going to support the group, (not that they are members anyway), and the space is still new to other companies.

It's a bit complicated, but there isn't a "W3C entity" that can be interested. Instead, representatives of member companies have to show support, and there wasn't enough interest from companies to keep it going after the 4 year charter was up.

Wonderful!

Yes, three of them are W3C Recommendations! There's also a few more pieces to the puzzle that were created after the W3C group concluded, more details here:

https://spec.indieweb.org/

I agree, but a good first start is to treat it as ephemeral and own all of the content you post there so it doesn't matter if it disappears. I see you have a blog, so you can do it right now! Start posting there and use plugins to syndicate to Twitter!

Maybe this example would help illustrate? Here's our conversation we've been having as far as I see it: https://aaronparecki.com/replies

It's true that I still need a Twitter account for this to work, but if Twitter disappears tomorrow I wouldn't care.

It would actually solve the issue with Facebook since they disabled their API and I can't post to it anymore. It'd be fun if my Facebook friends could still see my stuff! I'm just not willing to post there manually.

Yeah I do like that idea! I might have to experiment with something like that. All the pieces are already in place to have that work with the IndieWeb building blocks too!

This way none of my content really lives on twitter since it's all on my site. Twitter is just a channel for me to have conversations with people who don't yet post on their own websites.

Yeah basically 4 and 5 are covered by the idea of POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE but it works the opposite direction.

I'm writing this on my website, and it gets automatically copied to Twitter. I also am reading your replies in Monocle, my reader app.

Here's a diagram explaining the architecture of a typical interaction lifecycle. Each person is using different apps and different software for their websites, a key aspect to a truly decentralized and robust network.

hmm I don't think I understand, there's already a page but it appears to be a copy of the Wikipedia page, which isn't actually a very good description https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/IndieWeb/

Those specs are arguably not the best introduction to the concepts which is why I linked the blog post instead 😊

You don't need to explain decentralization to me ;-) I am literally the author of several W3C specs that are being used to build decentralized social networks!

https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/
https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/
https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/
https://www.w3.org/TR/indieauth/

You should come check out what we're doing on the #IndieWeb, it's basically exactly this, built with many W3C standards! Here's a writeup about my current social media experience, I stopped using Twitter ages ago:

https://aaronparecki.com/2018/04/20/46/indieweb-reader-my-new-home-on-the-internet

"User" has its own set of problems too, like connotations with drug use, which is particularly a problem when we're talking about making things that are alternatives to Facebook/Twitter which are known to create addictive behavior.

It's also not a term from an individual's perspective. People don't think of themselves as users of software, only the software authors do.

I guess that sounds like a different problem. That's definitely also an issue worth solving, and "control your bubble" is cute. I don't think that means "own your data" shouldn't also be a goal though.

I was watching your video and I was like "hey I know that coffee shop", "I recognize that building!" Nicely done! Would love to chat when I'm back in town!