IndieWeb, Publ, and Webmentions
Well… I fell down a rabbit hole a couple weeks ago. I stumbled upon the IndieWeb while I was looking for possible solutions to the enshittification of platforms, search, and seemingly everything. The IndieWeb seems to build off of the early visions for what the world wide web should be (i.e. a web of interconnected documents; not centralized platforms) with simple-ish standards to semantically markup documents and enable a higher degree of site-to-site interactivity. For instance, it’s entirely possible to compose a, more-or-less, ad-hoc decentralized micro-blogging (à la Mastodon) network by just building off of these standards and protocols. Manton Reece’s personal site is a good example of using the IndieWeb in this manner.