#Indieweb and Business

We had a discussion on the Indieweb chat that sparked a lot of thoughts. Rather than continuing to spam the channels I decided to share my thoughts here.

I think overall an indieweb approach actually requires rethinking of ownership models and a co-op that includes a suite of tools and services. The REI of Micropubs.

People then bring these tools to their communities and the co-op gains new members.

I know many in the community are giving back and others have been building the web since there has been a web.

I am happy to pay my annual fee to Known as I use their open source blogs in so many fun ways.

The original DNA of the web is protected in communities like #indieweb

Independents can not stand up to the silos alone. Taking indieweb to scale would require explorations of new models of community ownership.

I also wonder about taking webmentions to scale. Would need a serious suite of community management and moderation tools. At the same time having access to everything in one place would be an amazing and highly marketable tool. That thing @aaronpk made as an indieweb reader looked amazing.

Again something maybe the co-op makes.

I am also going to share the stories of the classes I am running in town. Haven't launched yet. Sponsoring with local orgs and just running tutorials on  getting business off Facebook and onto your own site then back to Facebook.

I live in a small town. There are two places to get quick information. Facebook or the town dump. Right now not sure which smells worse.