I took the leap and joined my first IndieWeb Homebrew event1 last night. A welcoming group of people, and really well moderated by James2. (I need to figure out how I mention people properly here)
IndieWeb’s draw for me is the promise of POSSE3 - Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. You are not writing for LinkedIn, facebook, medium, X, etc., you are writing for your own site. Then your writing is also published via these other services, which link back as the original source. The important part being that you always own your work, and when services like google+ (yeah, I’m that old) shut down, you are not scrambling to export your data.
About nine years ago was the last time I looked into IndieWeb. At that time there was a service, Bridgy4 which would also consolidate any comments, likes, etc. your content received on the syndicated sites and would bring them back to your own. I really liked that this would give you a consolidated overview of all your feedback/conversations. In the time that has passed, it would appear that there have been many changes, and this is something that I will need to investigate.
One of my goals with this site is to explore the IndieWeb. Over the coming weeks, months I will be sharing what I learn here, and I will be attending a lot more of these Homebrew sessions to get up to speed.