[krapp]

>They're working on tools that enable social networking based on simple standards-based websites - similar to your framework, perhaps?

I wrote my own thin API[0] for livejournal and a page scraper[1] to manage crossposting to livejournal and profiling links (like facebook) without wordpress or third party services, so I definitely get the 'IndieWeb' ethos. I like the idea of having your own site and broadcasting to social media rather than the other way around. Writing your own code and being able to do things yourself is very liberating. It just seems weird to me to think of owning your own content on the web as a progressive, pseudo-revolutionary movement because it seems like only yesterday that's just the way things were.

[0](https://github.com/kennethrapp/journalist)

[1](https://github.com/kennethrapp/embedbug) -- beware if you play around with this one because it's messy and the documentation is practically nonexistent. Because i'm lazy.