Jeremy Cherfas

Matt Mullenweg talking to James Altucher kinda sorta gets #indieweb

Not going to listen to the podcast; life is way too short for that. But a couple of #indieweb quotes from My WordPress:

> “We’re trying to revitalize the independent web,” Matt Mullenweg said. He’s 33 now. “It’s not like these big sites are going anywhere. They’re fantastic. I use all of them, but you want balance. You need your own site that belongs to you… like your own home on the Internet.”

So, how about total indiewebness in the basic WordPress core and default theme?

> “Other sites provide space,” he said. “They provide distribution in exchange for owning all of your stuff. You can’t leave Facebook or Twitter and take all of your followers with you.”

> That’s why he recommends having your own website. It’s yours. Not Facebook’s. Not Business Insider’s or Huffington Post’s. It’s yours.

But no mention of which comes first? Does it even matter?

Indieweb Quote of the Day: Bukovsky On Samizdat

Or you could write a blog post https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/or-you-could-write-a-blog-post #indieweb

Would any pnut devs who speak Python be interested in bringing pnut more fully into the world of #indieweb, by integrating with brid.gy? Instructions here https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy#adding-a-new-silo

The future of WithKnown

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The question "does @WithKnown have a future?" is cropping up increasingly frequently of late. And the "official" answer is that it most definitely does, look at all the activity on github, nothing has changed. And it's true, there has been a lot of activity and things are moving, if you go and look. But for someone just looking in and trying to decide whether to use the software, the lack of outward facing activity must be a bit off-putting.

Or maybe it isn't.

I have no idea.

All this was [kicked back and forth on the WithKnown IRC channel yesterday](https://github.com/mapkyca/KnownchatLogs/blob/master/2017-03-23.md), with -- alas -- no input (yet?) from the developers.

I'm going to continue trying to understand Known because right now it seems to me the best place to continue pursuing #indieweb ideals.

Replied to a post on ti.to :

Flight booked for @indiewebcamp Nürnberg. This is getting real. #indieweb

Replied to a post on twitter.com :

Do you know anything as #indieweb capable as @withknown out of the box @raretrack ?

Replied to a post on www.manton.org and a post on blog.henrikcarlsson.se :

Another reason we need to own our data -- because Manton's fourth tip links to a post on app.net that is now, of course, dead and buried ... unless it lives elsewhere. #indieweb

Replied to a post on aaronparecki.com :

This is a perfect use of Huffduffer.com, to listen to audio with a specific tag where I might not want to subscribe to a #podcast that only occasionally deals with that topic. #indieweb

Replied to a post on aaronparecki.com :

> Now that we are starting to expand greater into generation 2, we need to improve the documentation of the various IndieWeb components to focus less on code and protocols, and more on the end goals.

Amen to that.