2018/state-of-indieweb

State of the IndieWeb was a keynote at IndieWeb Summit 2018.

Talk Outline

Express Yourself

Last year: own your everything online

Independence means both ownership, and expressiveness.

• your homepage
• your permalinks
• your post types
• your syndicated copies

Be Heard

• Beyond POSSE
• Make sure your h-feed(s) work
• IndieWeb readers are coming!

Focus

2018: Make a better future.

• For yourself
• For everyone.

Community Updates

• HomebrewWebsiteClub
  • New cities: Austin, vHWC EU, Frederick (MD)

• Many IndieWebCamps - more coming up this year!
  • October 20-21: Nürnberg
  • November 3-4: Berlin!

• Are you in Austin, Brighton, Cambridge (Boston), London, Los Angeles, or San Francisco? Chat with organizers!

• Evolving principles to reach generations beyond coders

Technologies

New specs this past year!

W3C Recommendation:

• WebSub (joins Webmention and Micropub)

W3C Notes:

• IndieAuth
• JF2
• Post Type Discovery

Social Web Working Group closed - IndieWeb officially keeping specs up to date on their own domains and spec.indieweb.org:

• https://indieauth.spec.indieweb.org/
• http://jf2.spec.indieweb.org/
• https://micropub.net/draft/
• http://ptd.spec.indieweb.org/
• https://webmention.net/draft/

New:

• Microsub-spec

Will become even more important:

• Vouch

Services and CMS adoption

• Bridgy
  • Bridgy Github support! (Publish & Backfeed)
  • Chris Aldrich [https://boffosocko.com/2018/03/03/enabling-two-way-communication-with-wordpress-and-github-for-issues/
  • Bridgy Facebook support going away (backfeed gone, publish dropping August 1st)

• WordPress
  • new: IndieAuth plugin for WordPress!
  • updated: Getting Started on WordPress and WordPress/Plugins

• Drupal - new IndieWeb plugin!

Software and Tools

Modern Readers

• Together conceived at IndieWebSummit 2017
• Microsub discussions started, Aperture, Indigenous built

2018: Year of the IndieWeb Readers!

Previously

• 2017 State of the IndieWeb

See Also

• 2018
• 2018/Schedule