dweb2018

IndieWeb. Taking back your content with practical decentralization steps was a lightning talk at Decentralized Web Summit 2018.

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IndieWeb practical dweb steps

• Tantek Çelik
• Mozilla Web Standards Lead
• IndieWeb.org co-founder

original web

• distributed

actual web

• open client server

original web

• centralized sites

social media silos

• indieweb.org/silos

Why change?

• silo problems
• indieweb.org/why

Silo problems

• loss of expressivity
• loss of identity
• loss of data (takedowns)
• lose everything (site-deaths)

More silo problems

• loss of focus
• loss of time
• loss of self-esteem
• loss of reason
• loss of civility
• loss of safety

Use your site

• Use your site
• instead of social media
• indieweb.org/principles

personal sites plus

• using personal sites
• and social media silos

own your data

• #ownyourdata
• and stay connected

federate

• #federate
• #p2psites

silo quits

• #siloquits

distributed sites

• #distributed #indieweb sites

How?

• #indieweb
• #buildingblocks

POSSE

• #ownyourdata and
• Publish on your
• Own
• Site
• Syndicate
• Elsewhere
• #POSSE

POSSE examples

• http://tantek.com/2018/181/t1/finished-indiewebsummit-coding-reply-contexts
• https://twitter.com/t/status/1012988305850454017
• http://tantek.com/2018/190/b1/scrollbar-gutter-move-to-css-scrollbars
• https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2899

backfeed

• #backfeed
• silo responses
• comments
• likes
• etc.

backfeed examples

• https://snarfed.org/2013-12-06_new-app-engine-logo#comments

Webmention microformats

• #Webmention
• + #microformats
• = #p2p #indieweb
  • comments
  • likes
  • @-mentions
  • etc.

Webmention examples

• https://aaronparecki.com/2018/07/23/28/
• http://tantek.com/2018/212/e1/indiewebcamp-sf-dweb-hackers-day

Webmention spec

• https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/
• more: https://webmention.net/

microformats2 spec

• http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing
• http://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry

your first Webmention

• https://aaronparecki.com/2018/06/30/11/your-first-webmention

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Lightning Talk ended here

Rest of slides used as reference during Q&A

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micropub

• #micropub
• https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/
• more: https://micropub.net/

PESOS

• Publish
• Elsewhere
• Syndicate to your own
• Own
• Site
• #PESOS

PESOS as service

• #PESOS as a service
• #micropub to your site
• e.g.
• #ownyourgram
• #ownyourswarm

PESOS Examples

• https://indiewebcat.com/2018/07/13/2/
• https://aaronparecki.com/2018/07/31/19/

backfeed as service

• #backfeed as a service via
• #Webmention to your site
• from https://brid.gy/

POSSE as service

• #POSSE as a service via
• #Webmention from your site
• to https://brid.gy/

More building blocks

• Distributed Identity
• https://indieauth.net/
• https://www.w3.org/TR/indieauth/

Most recently

• own your reading experience
• indieweb.org/reader
  • iOS, Android, Web UIs
  • reading aggregators
• using #Microsub building block
• https://aaronparecki.com/2018/04/20/46/indieweb-reader-my-new-home-on-the-internet

Get Started

• indieweb.org/getstarted

User your #indieweb

• User your #indieweb site
• instead of social media
• start being #dweb TODAY

Thank You

• Tantek.com (@t)
• chat.indieweb.org

Addendum

• Thanks to Aaron for extracting the video from the original from among all the talks there.