Excited about the indie web | Tracy Durnell

Tracy has written a really solid article that covers a lot of what I consider the positives of the IndieWeb movement. With her mentioning of digital gardens and personal filing systems, she's clearly gone on (or going on) a similar journey to me πŸ˜‰ She also touches on an element I'd never really considered:

I’ve long said the future of the web is curation β€” there’s so much content, much of it crap or irrelevant β€” and I want to hear what real people find interesting.

The idea of personal websites (and associated social feeds) as aΒ curation tool, a kind of distributed filter network, is a neat one. So much of what I bookmark or write about here has come from Slack channels, RSS feeds, or word of mouth. It had never really occurred to me that a network of personal websites could create a more useful equivalent to an algorithmic feed, one which is still likely highly related to your own interests but also just as likely to throw a curveball that shows you something new or challenging. Neat idea.

I also really rather like this sentiment:

Recentering how I use the web based on my needs rather than the private services that are available.

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