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date: 2026-01-04T22:05:00.000Z
title: Sanding off friction from indie web connection
slug: sanding-off-friction-from-indie
bookmark-of: https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/09/sanding-off-friction-from-indie-web-connection/
tags:
  - IndieWeb
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  - referenceIdUrl: https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/09/sanding-off-friction-from-indie-web-connection/
    url: https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/09/sanding-off-friction-from-indie-web-connection/
    name: Sanding off friction from indie web connection
    type: entry
    published: 2025-01-09T23:24:56-08:00
    author:
      type: card
      url:
        - https://tracydurnell.com
        - https://micro.blog/tracydurnell
        - https://micro.blog/tracydurnell?remote_follow=1
      uid: https://tracydurnell.com
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      name: Tracy Durnell
      note: Writer and designer in the Seattle area. Reach me at
        tracy@tracydurnell.com or @tracy@notes.tracydurnell.com. She/her.
    content: >-
      Add friction to the activities you’d like to change, and remove friction
      from the things you’d like to do more of. This is usually applied at a
      personal level, but we can think of it across communities, too: Where is
      there friction in our community that blocks people from participating in
      the ways we’d like?

      This is followup to “The IndieWeb’s next stage?” as well as my entry for
      this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by Venkatram Harish Belvadi on the
      theme of friction.


      Friction is inherent to…
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I may have skimmed this article before but Tracy has so many great observations and ideas here. This makes me want to write up a roadmap for addressing some of these issues. I'd love to see what an in-person PNW IndieWebCamp would come up with.