IndieWeb: The last (and only) online social site you’ll ever need—your own.
You don’t even need to “join it” because its something you can choose to own for yourself.
I know I’ve thought and probably said variations of this tagline many times in the past, but I’m not sure I’ve ever written it out. And perhaps it could be honed even further? It’s closely related to the idea that the IndieWeb is what you have when the Internet itself is your social media network.
It’s helped me that I have the capability to cobble together my own version. Eventually we’ll have lots more commoditized versions, but there are a few simple sign up and go options out there that don’t require as much tinkering if you’re interested.
@c It’s a great ideal but the reality is that the people I connect with on Twitter and Facebook won’t go elsewhere. My indieweb site is aspirational and an archive; the action mainly happens on Facebook.
@MitchWagner Sadly Facebook has locked off the outside indie world, but doing threaded conversations between indie sites and Twitter is a realizable reality. I’ve writtten a bit about how I’ve done it with my WordPress site in the past: Threaded conversations between WordPress and Twitter. Have you been to any of the San Diego IndieWeb/Homebrew Website Club meetups? I know there’s one coming up on the 29th: events.indieweb.org
@c I did not know there is a SD IndieWeb group. I’ll look into it. Are you here in SD?
@MitchWagner They started up late last year. I’m up here in the LA area, but have been attending their online meetups.