====== Community — Mastodon, Webmentions, RSS ====== How to find people and build an audience on the IndieWeb without algorithms. ===== Mastodon ===== Decentralized, open-source microblogging. Like an old-school Twitter without the billionaire and without the algorithm pushing outrage. * Sign up at [[https://mastodon.social/|mastodon.social]] or [[https://indieweb.social/|indieweb.social]] * Find IndieWeb people at the ''#IndieWeb'' and ''#SmallWeb'' hashtags * No need to build from scratch — import your follows from existing accounts **Echofeed** — [[https://echofeed.app/|echofeed.app]] — automatically publishes new blog posts to your Mastodon account when you publish to your site. Set it up once; it runs forever. ===== RSS ===== Let people subscribe to your site. When you publish, it shows up in their feed reader automatically. No algorithm, no engagement bait — just new posts, in order. * Feed readers: [[https://netnewswire.com/|NetNewsWire]] (macOS/iOS, free), [[https://freshrss.org/|FreshRSS]] (self-hosted) * Submit your site to human-curated directories — see [[indieweb:directories|Directories & Blogrolls]] * Your RSS feed is usually at ''/feed.xml'' or ''/rss.xml'' automatically with most platforms ===== Webmentions ===== A W3C standard notification system for the IndieWeb. When someone writes a post on their own site that links to yours, their site can notify yours. You receive the mention — like a thoughtful reply, not just a button press. * [[https://webmention.io/|webmention.io]] — free service to receive webmentions without setting up your own server * [[https://brid.gy/|Brid.gy]] — pulls in replies, likes, and reposts from Mastodon/Twitter as webmentions * Requires adding a '''' tag to your site's '''' pointing to your webmention endpoint ===== IndieAuth ===== [[https://indieauth.com/|IndieAuth]] lets people use their own domain as identity — no new account, no surrendering an email to another company. Used for comment systems and Micropub clients. Comment on a site by entering ''yourdomain.com'' instead of an email address. Your domain is verified as belonging to you. ===== Micropub ===== [[https://micropub.spec.indieweb.org/|Micropub]] is a W3C standard API for posting to your site from any compatible client. * [[https://quill.p3k.io/|Quill]] — post from your phone or browser to your static site without touching Git or files directly * Works with IndieAuth for authentication * Enables: quick notes, replies, check-ins, all posted to your own domain ===== The Audience You Build ===== Smaller but more engaged. These are people who chose to follow you — not people doomscrolling past your posts between ads. The algorithm shows your posts to a small fraction of your followers anyway. On the IndieWeb, everyone who follows your RSS feed sees everything you publish. ===== See Also ===== * [[indieweb:start|IndieWeb Index]] * [[indieweb:getting_started|Getting Started on the IndieWeb]] * [[indieweb:directories|Directories & Blogrolls]] * [[indieweb:principles|IndieWeb Principles — POSSE]] * [[protocols:smallweb:twtxt|twtxt]] * [[indieweb:status_lol_twtxt|Syncing status.lol to twtxt]] * [[start|Return to wiki home]]