@christi3k I think that’s a false dichotomy. #indieweb tools are more usable to more people every year. A plurality of projects is more sustainable and resilient than silos^1 or monocultures^2. ^1 indieweb.org/silos, e.g. ello.co and before that identi.ca ^2 indieweb.org/monoculture, e.g. tent.io All had hopeful surges of interest, followed by disappointment, shrinking, and eventual abandonment. All such efforts are unsustainable and doomed. No one new site or open source project will solve this. We need to move beyond such “panacea” assumptions, and accept the hard work of a plurality of indieweb/decentralized approaches and solutions that interoperate with open standards. That hard work starts with each one of us who can do it today, not waiting for someone else to build something tomorrow. Help make a difference *today* by starting with yourself, your site, your posting behavior. Set an example, like by posting all your tweets/notes to christiekoehler.com instead of or before posting them to Twitter. And at the same time, help document and raise awareness of what could be better, easier, friendlier, for you, for all users. The https://indieweb.org/ community actively makes user experience a priority for all and is here to help you do all of that (including openly documenting all opportunities for improvement). https://indieweb.org/principles There are already tens of thousands of such indieweb sites that federate with each other today. That number has grown >10x each year since the small handful of us that got federating working among our personal sites in 2013. We are dedicated to continuing to grow, with more projects and better usability across the board, which is how we will reach and empower more people, incrementally, sustainably, each year. https://indieweb.org/generations

@christi3k I think that’s a false dichotomy.
#indieweb tools are more usable to more people every year.
A plurality of projects is more sustainable and resilient than silos¹ or monocultures².

¹ indieweb.org/silos, e.g. ello.co and before that identi.ca
² indieweb.org/monoculture, e.g. tent.io

All had hopeful surges of interest, followed by disappointment, shrinking, and eventual abandonment.

All such efforts are unsustainable and doomed.

No one new site or open source project will solve this. We need to move beyond such “panacea” assumptions, and accept the hard work of a plurality of indieweb/decentralized approaches and solutions that interoperate with open standards.

That hard work starts with each one of us who can do it today, not waiting for someone else to build something tomorrow.

Help make a difference *today* by starting with yourself, your site, your posting behavior.

Set an example, like by posting all your tweets/notes to christiekoehler.com instead of or before posting them to Twitter. And at the same time, help document and raise awareness of what could be better, easier, friendlier, for you, for all users.

The https://indieweb.org/ community actively makes user experience a priority for all and is here to help you do all of that (including openly documenting all opportunities for improvement).

https://indieweb.org/principles

There are already tens of thousands of such indieweb sites that federate with each other today. That number has grown >10x each year since the small handful of us that got federating working among our personal sites in 2013. We are dedicated to continuing to grow, with more projects and better usability across the board, which is how we will reach and empower more people, incrementally, sustainably, each year.

https://indieweb.org/generations