Thanks to #IndieWeb (@WithKnown, @WordPress, & Brid.gy) this is no longer a problem. http://t.co/RqwtiKE0QQ
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Here’s a video of the Tech Talk I presented last month to my globaldev team on the #indieweb and why I believe it’s important that you #ownyourdata
Update: slides are now on SpeakerDeck:
My talk and the content is based on and inspired by the work of the Indieweb community and is licensed with a CC0 Public Domain licence.
We traded the open technology of RSS for Twitter and now we will pay the price of the anonymous corporate agents telling us what words we can read.
The Indieweb approach has a lot in common with Ev's ideas for Medium, but the key difference is that we are doing it in a way that works across websites, not just within one. We can use an editor on one site to post to another using micropub, even to silos. We have ways to highlight based on fragmentions, and a very simple way to connect responses together using webmention.
No one moves where they tweet because some other tool has better formatting or profile customization. That’s because a tiny percentage of the value Twitter brings comes from the software itself. It’s all about the network — the connection with other users and the content they create.