Building Blocks of the Indie Web
summary
Argues that individuals can keep control and convenience by running a personal site that uses rel="me" for IndieAuth, a micropub endpoint to accept posts from interfaces like Quill or OwnYourGram, and webmention (with Brid.gy converting Twitter/Flickr activity) to collect replies. Shows POSSE workflow (publish on your site, syndicate elsewhere), cites 100 days as the average web page lifespan, and points to ready plugins and CMS support (Perch, WordPress, Jekyll) so you don’t build everything from scratch.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:57Bell Curve Distribution
- 2:46Browser Wars
- 5:11Hubspoke
- 5:49Single point of failure
- 6:32Distributed network
- 9:20Web architecture
- 10:12Competition
- 11:26Walled Gardens
- 13:29Metcalfes Law
- 15:13Convenience vs Control
- 16:17The Indie Web
- 17:04Longevity
- 18:45Twoway links
- 19:58rel attribute
- 21:29link attribute
- 22:30OAuth
- 23:04India
- 23:20Authentication
- 24:01Micropub
- 24:35Micropub Authentication
- 25:10Quill
- 25:30Own Your Swarm
- 25:50Post to Swarm
- 26:25Post to Posse
- 27:42Post to Twitter
- 28:49Web Mention
- 30:00Brigie
- 30:46Drew McClellan
- 31:45Dont focus on the technologies
- 32:55Have fun
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