I don’t think my wording was clear. I meant that criteria was intended for use at a large scale, to estimate how many domains we might classify as “indieweb.” I don’t think it was meant to be applied on an individual personal site to determine whether or not it counts as part of the IndieWeb. Plenty of people have personal websites and have never heard of indieweb.org or implemented mf2/webmention/micropub. They’re still part…

Colin Walker on colinwalker.blog:
In reply to: consider a page part of the IndieWeb if…
Ryan’s quote about how to check for possible indieweb properties was used in that context and, while it may not be a litmus test, checking for x or y rather than x and y implies only one is required.
But this is the current difficulty with defining exactly what constitutes an indieweb site.

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I don’t think my wording was clear. I meant that criteria was intended for use at a large scale, to estimate how many domains we might classify as “indieweb.” I don’t think it was meant to be applied on an individual personal site to determine whether or not it counts as part of the IndieWeb. Plenty of people have personal websites and have never heard of indieweb.org or implemented mf2/webmention/micropub. They’re still part of the IndieWeb as far as I’m concerned. They just haven’t self-identified with the community.

June 23, 2017