Am I on the Indieweb Yet?

Miriam does allude to the thing that I normally don't like about discussions of the Indieweb's shortcomings: holy shit is it a lot of work to get the ecosystem where it needs to be.

Typically there are people who come along to be defensive about where it already is, and a lot of what exists is really great! But:

* the polish necessary to get things to a point where normies can participate is a massive amount of work on top of the technical primitives that exist

* the only people who can do that work are the kinds of people who already don't need it for themselves

* the basic structure of the Indieweb is to build your own thing, not a platform for others

So the folks doing the work contra those incentives end up being rare heroes, so of course it then sucks when people come along and say "but why isn't it as smooth as using BigTechPlatform?" BigTechPlatform spends millions on engineering salaries to make it smooth! The Indieweb has, like, aaronpk and Tantek Çelik.

(That's an exaggeration, there are a bunch of small tools and projects out there done by a lot of devs, but you have to be a dev yourself to set them up or hook them all together.)