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Comment by benoliver999 | Hacker News Reader

The indieweb is both beautiful and frustrating to me. I have been writing online for 20 years in various forms, and my current site is 10 years old.

I feel like I should be part of it. And according to their website, I own a domain and a site, so I am a part of it!

But then you scroll down and the headaches begin.

It feels like so much infra and setup to get stuff up and running that it scares me away every time.

This. The barrier of entry is too high. Feels like the Indieweb is stuck at the protocol layer and an abstraction above it is badly needed.

Sounds like you just invented social media ;)

Yeah, just get Level 1 Webhosting from Hetzner for 2 EUR/month, click the 1-click setup for WP and off you go. What's the big deal?

Yeah then simply follow the guide

Which links to dozens of other guides but maybe it's this one you want

Oh that's a stub better hit the linked github

Unless it's indieauth you're after? Micropub? websub? webmentions? The world is your oyster!

Why continue to make this argument when, an hour prior to you posting this, it was correctly pointed out that literally none of that is required?

Did you read this line? It says after the domain and site:

“That’s it. Everything else is optional awesomeness, you choose.”