Citizen of the @indieweb
This made me wonder, when are you an actual ‘citizen’, that is when do you belong to, in or are a part of the Indieweb? Is it when you develop your user page? Is it when you check IRC/Slack Community regularly just because? Or is it when you have a site that has the badge on it? Or is is simple, are you a citizen if you want to be?
This reminded me of Audrey Watters reflections on the Contrafabulist podcast (can’t remember the exact episode) when she wondered when you actually become a New Yorker?
Aaron Davis wonders “when are you an actual ‘citizen’, that is when do you belong to, in or are a part of the Indieweb?” To me, “belong to”, “in” and “part” signify slightly different depths of commitment, none of which conveys “citizenship”. The way I understand it, citizenship is granted by some other authority. You can’t just claim it for yourself.
I like Kartik Prabhu’s idea that posting to a domain you own is all it takes. “Everything else is a bonus”. But that’s a little like Robinson Crusoe being a citizen of his island. Interaction with others matters too.
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To me it means: have a domain name and post content on it. Everything else is a bonus.
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Love the idea. On that basis I qualify, although I often feel like a tourist… apart from anything else a lot of indieweb citizens speak a different language.