@kylewm There's so much I want to reply to, but I only have time for a short reply right now. Short version:
Agreed that we need to better define our "inessential weirdnesses". I suspect they are actually things that developed organically and can be replaced by other less weird things that have the same effect and accomplish the same goal
Homebrew Website Club was originally created to be a less technical-focused place to discuss indieweb things.
An alternate IRC channel isn't a bad idea. Slack does a great job of encouraging splitting different discussion topics into channels and we could do the same. That said, I think rather than splitting off the newcomers into a separate channel, we should split off the jargon/plumbing/implementation discussion into a separate channel.
I think we're at an interesting time for the community right now. It's super important to have these discussions, so thanks for the writeup.
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