Flutterby™! : Sustainable web

Ben Werdmuller: The sustainable web (and why sustainability is a kind of independence) #indieweb #iiw is a riff on Dan Hon: Letters: Episode Seventy Five: The Sustainable Web; TaskRabbit; Airbnb; Cities, which proposes a model that's less isolationist than the "indie web":

So my thing is this: not an indie web, but a sustainable one. One that is kind of adjacent to the indie web, but that builds long-lasting, reliable services, not ones that disappear. This adjacency comes from the answers to the question of: what kind of attributes are required for a sustainable web? Do you need easily exportable data? Sure. Do you need some element of user control? Sure. Are those the *defining* characteristics? Not really. But I think we might be verging on a sort of turning point where applications and services can, at the outset, say: "you know what, here's our plan for being around for a while so you can *trust* us and invest time in us".

I think it's interesting to unpack the assumptions behind the "indie web", and step back and take another perspective on what it might look like.