@eli I had similar thoughts in that general area tonight. My Timeline today has been about 50% posts from people who are currently, or are planning for, doing some sort of tinkering on their websites for better IndieWeb integration (or troubleshooting said integration).

As I kept reading, I was thinking, “I enjoy a little bit of tinkering—after all, I am an Ardisson—but even this amount is more than I’m up for right now, and I can’t imagine my ‘normal’ friends wanting to do any of it.” Which is a shame, because the “post-blog generation” of social media is ripe for blog-based disruption right now. Instead, it feels like we’re setting up for replacing “WordPress consultant” with “IndieWeb consultant” as a career field to support those people who actually do decide to join the IndieWeb movement ;-)

And while Micro.blog is a stellar example of a major step forward w/r/t user-friendliness/user focus (well-deserved 👏 for Manton), the fact that M.b-hosted blogs don’t even have the option of receiving (displaying?) webmentions-as-comments shows that there’s still a lot to be done to get “there” even in the best cases.

(And this reply ended up being so long that it really should be a post on my blog instead, but I have yet to tinker in support for sending a webmention to a Micro.blog conversation ;-) )