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Stephen Downes

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As readers know, I've tinkered with implementing things like WebMentions and Microformats and Indieweb and Brid.gy over the years. Readers will also know my general lack of success, partially (I argue) because of significantly poor documentation, and partially because it's overly cumbersome. I do love the concept of #indieweb and won't let that go, though. But there has to be a better way. In this post, Wouter Groeneveld offers a number fo reasons why he's giving up on it, citing everything from spam to maintenance issues to privacy concerns to the dearth of good comments coming from anywhere.

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