The #indieweb is more than #independence. It’s also a web, of both personal sites and “third place” sites like aggregators, bridges, proxies, directories, indexes, and other community sites.
Broadly speaking, such “third place” sites include places we collectively contribute to, and which license our contributions for free use by others. While open source projects come to mind, perhaps a more obvious example is Wikipedia.
Similarly, the most obvious “third place” in the #IndieWeb community is our community site and wiki http://indieweb.org/ as well as the heterogeneous chat http://chat.indieweb.org/.
We also have many services run by individuals (or small teams) in the community, for the benefit of the community, like:
* @snarfed.org’s http://brid.gy/ and http://fed.brid.gy/
* @aaronparecki.com’s http://webmention.io/ and many others
* @martymcgui.re’s http://xn--sr8hvo.ws/ (IndieWeb Webring)
* @gregorlove.com’s http://indiebookclub.biz/
* @mat.tl’s http://libre.fm/
and I’m sure many more I’m forgetting.
All these services respect your data and your ownership of it. #ownYourData
All these services are swappable. Many (most?) are open source and self-hostable in case you want to run your own personal instance or another shared instance.
The web part of the indieweb complements, connects, and strengthens the indie part.
This is post 4 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts
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