There is a quiet revolution happening on the web. It's not about crypto. It's not about VR. It's about something much older and more important: Ownership.
It's called the IndieWeb.
What is the IndieWeb?
The IndieWeb is a community of people building software to enable personal websites to be the center of their online identity.
The core principle is simple: Your content is yours.
When you post on Facebook, you are giving your content to a corporation. When you post on your own site, you own it.
POSSE: Publish (on) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
This is the golden rule of the IndieWeb.
Instead of posting directly to Twitter or LinkedIn, you post to your own blog first. Then, you share that link (or a copy of the content) to the social networks.
Why is this better?
- Archive: You have a permanent copy of everything you've ever said. If Twitter shuts down tomorrow, you lose nothing.
- Search: Your own site is indexed by Google. Your tweets are not (mostly).
- Control: You decide how your content looks. You decide if there are ads.
Jottings and the IndieWeb
Jottings was built with IndieWeb principles in mind.
- We are a platform, not a silo: We make it easy to export your data.
- We support open standards: RSS, JSON Feed, and semantic HTML.
- We encourage domains: We want you to use your own domain name.
Join the Movement
You don't need to be a developer to join the IndieWeb. You just need a website.
Start a Jottings site. Buy a domain name. Start writing.
You are building a small piece of the internet that is truly yours. And that is a radical act.