Anil documents the steady decline of empowering features from web browsers: view source; in-situ authoring; transclusion, but finishes with the greatest loss of all: your own website at your own address.
There are no technical barriers for why we couldn’t share our photos to our own sites instead of to Instagram, or why we couldn’t post stupid memes to our own web address instead of on Facebook or Reddit. There are social barriers, of course — if we stubbornly used our own websites right now, none of our family or friends would see our stuff. Yet there’s been a dogged community of web nerds working on that problem for a decade or two, trying to see if they can get the ease or convenience of sharing on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram to work across a distributed network where everyone has their own websites.
(Although it’s a bit of shame that Anil posted this on Ev’s blog instead of his own.)
As with anything, there will always be people on all spectrums of belief. But just know, the IndieWeb has defined 4 generations of potential users (https://indieweb.org/generations) because we believe that a world can exist where people that don’t have to build their own website in order to own their data. However until the tooling is advanced enough, only the earlier generations will be able to effectively own their data.
How are these currently being imported into Microsub?
Also, micro.blog with Monocle is a little bit more complicated because Monocle is Microsub (reading API) plus Micropub (posting API). Micro.blog currently supports a subset of Micropub (intentionally), and Microsub is still so new, that while I think there are eventual plans to add support, it’ll probably be a little while.
Using Twitter for OAuth 2.0 is just a first step into the IndieWeb. IndieAuth can technically support all sorts of login options (emails, mobile login, passwords, etc) @manton has expressed that he has plans for deeper IndieAuth integration in micro.blog, and David Shanske is currently working on an IndieAuth plug-in for WordPress that will allow the use of the Wordpress User/Pass to login to Quill and other Micropub clients