Theory: How Steem And the IndieWeb Can Become a Team

I'm remarkably new at this whole IndieWeb thing myself, so if I have incorrect assumptions regarding how this can work, the more comments pointing them out, the better. And, if members of the Steem community are also IndieWeb citizens, all the more power to you guys!

What Is The IndieWeb

It's several principles, but it begins with that of owning one's own data, and not having it be owned by what us open source freaks like to call the "corporate web". In other words, having all of your content posted first to places like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and so on. If you own your data and your domain, even if syndicated copies disappear with services coming and going, you will always have what you wanted to say kept somewhere safe that only disappears providing you, yourself, allow it to. also, the Indieweb means that no one can censor you. With that, I intend to join it on my personal site with every single fiber of my being. I've gotten used to the fact that maybe this will mean less engagement on my postings since they are not going to be handed to advertisers. I've gotten used to the idea of getting people to come to my world, first; how it ought to be in the web. Corporations can't tell us what we can do with our data; the scandalous actions of orgs like Facebook (Cambridge analytica, anyone?) have tried my patience, in the worst way possible.

What Does This Have To Do With Steem?

A few things. @Steempress-IO has taken a massive step toward getting Steem to be an honorary part of the IndieWeb (I say "honorary" because it's not been recognized as an official part of it on the wiki at the IndieWeb's home, but I could potentially fix that if the consensus is good, and the Steem community agrees, considering it follows more principles than it doesn't (regardless, I might add, of the fact that the Steem token was created by a for-profit company. At this point, there are enough witnesses out there that if SteemIt were to die tomorrow, the network would still thrive better than ever.) Either way, SteemPress gives the Steem network the IndieWeb principle of POSSE (post on own site, syndicate elsewhere), allowing steemians to take a focus on their little corner of the web rather than posting first to a Steem-based interface. That is how things from now on will probably be done in my case, of course, with the exception of DTube videos and DSound Audio files. And the reason for that being that SteemPress doesn't yet support the video post format being sent to dTube, and the same for the audio post type. We need more support for these new standards; not quite sure what SteemPress does to make the two-way integration work, but the IndieWeb equivalent is webmention, a way for sites to communicate with one another across the web, regardless of platform chosen to run them. Quite fascinating, if you ask me, and it's a standard that, if you ask me, should be adopted by all sites, both those hosted for personal, as well as business use.

At the moment, the integration between Steem and other non-Steem based platforms seems fragmented, like the thoughts expressed on postings from the community are separate from those posted by the rest of the world. We have connection, but no cohesion, yet, at least. The good thing, though, we're getting there. I would love some input on this post regarding what you guys think.