Calling it the indieweb is spot on imo. I was running IRC servers and phpbb message boards throughout the 2000s and it seems to me that the only thing changed w

Calling it the indieweb is spot on imo. I was running IRC servers and phpbb message boards throughout the 2000s and it seems to me that the only thing changed with the web is the massive influx of novice users on big social media. The rest of us have always been, and likely always will be, a sub-culture of sorts. We used to have message boards, now we have federated social media instances. If you look at a list of mastodon instances it reads like a list of privately hosted message boards in the 90s/2000s. Or a list of privately hosted BBS' in the 80s. The major difference being that these islands are now all federated. In my youth I had a dozen IRC accounts setup in my .irssi/config (or BitchX;), today this would have to be federated. (iWish IRC was fedarated too but that's another story) So not much has changed on the social aspect. And that's where I believe we're headed. A big shallow part of the internet will be used by people who have better things to do than engage in deep conversations on the computers about their special interests. While a much smaller, sub-culture, will use specialized forums for their special interests. So I guess the sad conclusion is that you shouldn't expect the IndieWeb to go mainstream.