Reply to Dale’s comment on my IndieWeb post

Yesterday, I shared my article There’s no membership card for IndieWeb and got the following comment from Dale: Great article, I agree 99%. I do take issue, however, with your spiel that the IndieWeb is a recursive effort to ultimately converge everybody towards a set of ideas. I think it extremely important to the definition of an independent web that people can overtly diverge from the direction of the herd: be creative outside the box, be innovative, and, most of all, be brave and ground-breaking. Only then can the indie web grow and expand its boundaries. My own definition of a personal web site is one on which one person has the agency to do anything at all with the site without recourse to others. That does not preclude use of such systems as Wordpress, on proviso that the person using such system could in principle move off it--effectively being able to break the walls. https://khleedril.org/blog/comment/xclloh.html We don’t disagree here at all. I don’t think IndieWeb is “a…