There’s no membership card for IndieWeb

Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is to write a blog post every day of the month. My good internet friend V.H. Belvadi — whose writing always gets my mind excited with his writing — published a great piece on his ideas on re-defining the IndieWeb and I have like half a dozen threads of ideas that sparked from that post. Here’s my first one. He hosted IndieWeb Carnival last December where a lot of people wrote about their ideas for where IndieWeb is going towards in the next five years. In this post, he takes a look at how IndieWeb movement defines itself and offers his thoughts on some of the issues in that and how he would define it. While this blog post was inspired by his post, don’t consider this as any kind of rebuttal. There are some points where I point directly to his writing but everything else is just generally my ideas around the topic. The starting point that Belvadi also quotes is this definition from IndieWeb wiki: The IndieWeb is a…