Thank you. :3
Oh but I want to! I want to get you started on it. Already so much of the internet is anglocentric, to the point of practically requiring a lot of people around the world to learn a second language (or third, or fourth), and then we’re asking them to learn anglocentric coding languages as well?
There’s been some efforts on this front, it’s worth noting – the 32BC of course has the resource list and the Creating Your Own Website guide, and more recently I created a beginner guide of my own, You Can Make A Website, which links to lots of different tools and tutorials. Plus the IndieWeb Camp wiki has a Getting Started page that I’ve been trying to make improvements to (if you log in, you can access the edit history and see what kind of state it was in before).
But, yes, that does still leave the question of how anyone is supposed to stumble across these things, and then once they do, following a guide like this does still require some considerable legwork, which takes us back to the interest in making things easier. Right now I’ve got my eye on a few upcoming indie content management services that I hope I’ll be able to recommend, since in theory those should be able to help simplify the process. And besides developing more tools like that… I suppose that leaves it to us to help spread the word.
Thank you, I’m glad to hear it’s been thought-provoking.
Yes, I think that’s a good point as well. I’m reminded of the recent carnival contribution that talked about independent web browsers and the perspective of a visitor/reader, looking to access sites in an indie way.
Hmm. Could an RSS-to-email tool work for her, or is that something you’ve already ruled out?
Yeah. To me, “interact“ is the big one out of those three, although I recognize the importance of all of them. I have some tangentially related thoughts for an upcoming post about comment sections, which I think have been an under-discussed factor in why people keep making accounts on social platforms instead of making static sites.