[chriswarbo]

Yes, like I say it seems over-engineered for no benefit. For example, why go to all this effort to be "indie", only to end up with this sort of nonsense: http://microformats.org/wiki/web-sign-in

> Link from your personal site to your other profiles. Add rel="me" to those hyperlinks. E.g.:

> <a rel="me" href="http://twitter.com/your_twitter_alias">...

> When you use your personal site with web sign-in the first time, your browser will redirect you to to your online profile, e.g. Twitter

I can dig the markup, but all the user flows and use cases appear to devolve into an unofficial API for Twitter.

[aaronpk]

Check out the actual spec, there's nothing in IndieAuth that relies on third parties. The whole point is so you can authenticate as your own domain to other things. There are some helper services that let you authenticate via Twitter/GitHub in case your website doesn't support IndieAuth natively. https://indieauth.net