Notices by Chris Aldrich (chrisaldrich@mastodon.social)

@natecull @clacke Yes its still there and even supports Webmention too! If you want to try some basic Known functionality I've got an open install that you can sign up for an account on: http://known.boffosocko.com

@clacke @natecull In short, I think of IndieWeb as a buffet instead of a religion: you can pick and choose the parts you'd like to have or support, but no one is forcing you to do anything you don't want to do. :)

@clacke @natecull By adding on the ability to send and receive webmentions you can support rich two-way conversations and interactions the way most social media sites do.

I'll be the first to admit that my coding skills are nearly non-existent, but I've been able to set up something which lets me do two way communication with a variety of services like twitter, facebook, google+, flicker, Instagram, github, and other indieweb sites.

@clacke @natecull That's actually even overreaching, based on current community thinking. If you own your own domain and have a website, you've got an "IndieWeb site".

Of course if you can support microformats like h-card and rel="me" you can do a lot more. There are enough parsers in several languages that would allow your site to work with several feed readers without having side files like RSS/Atom just by supporting POSH (plain old semantic html) with h-feed/h-entry microformats.

@natecull One might view it as the continued growth of the old school blogosphere after Twitter/Facebook tried to consume everything. They've used open formats and small building blocks like html, microformats, and open specs like webmentions, micropub, pubsubhubub, and even oStatus and Activity Streams to make it easier for people to do what they've been doing on sites like FB, Twitter, et al, but in a way that gives them the ability to own it themselves and have more direct control.