I came across an article named "Let’s make the indie web easier". And while making indie web easier is not bad, I have much different take on what is needed right now.
Throughout my whole journey with programming, I always heard that we should focus on making tech accessible for everyone and we should focus on nontechnical users. And I think that it's really important.
But in the meantime, it's easier to setup a website than ever. Services like bearblog, pika or write.as lets you get your website running in seconds. If someone wants to have a website, there is really no excuse. And it kinda turns out, not that many people outside tech want to have their own website.
And the reason - I suppose - is that web is simply not that fun anymore.
The first reason that I would like to focus on would be walled gardens, paywalls, AI slop, ads and 25mb websites with 1.3kb of the essence. "Developers" called in this article, in my opinion, should focus on providing alternatives to this, not on making easier wordpress. And they don't own it to "people", they own it to themselves. If web won't be fun for tech people, it won't be fun for anyone.
Some attempts like gemini are nice to see. I see more webrings than ever which help discover exciting stuff on web, which is really hard using "the search engine". Mastodon, while kinda lost momentum, it looks like it's here to stay for a long time. Personally, I believe widespread indie "mail" alternative would be a game changer, but it looks like it's kinda impossible to win with bad actors/spammers.
But it's hard for me to imagine bold projects that can really change the indie web, that are not "geeky", made for tech people. And in the past writers and accountants managed to join irc and put websites through ftp. And knowledge gained through it helped them to make web better.
Another reason would be that fewer people want to exchange ideas and share thoughts on the internet, and more and more people want to create "content" - filler for marketing campaigns, but that's another story.
tldr: idk, make web exciting