2018/state-of-indieweb

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

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)
 * [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