Nürnberg IndieWebCamp 2017 (I'm in the bottom right) Webmentions Now the juicy stuff! I think the coolest thing about the IndieWeb is that it is decentralised. Currently, there is a handful of corporations that own much of our data. With webmentions, each person owns their own data and each person can communicate with others. Webmentions are basically a way to display on your personal site ways that others have interacted with your content. On my site I display mentions and bookmarks. It's possible for someone to link to one of my blog posts within one of their blog posts or bookmarks. If they do this, I won't know about it unless they let me know about it. Letting others know you've mentioned their posts can be done manually or can be automated.