====== IndieWeb ======

The independent web: a movement to own your data, publish on your own terms, and build communities without corporate intermediaries.

**Core principle: own your domain, own your content, own your identity.**

===== Pages =====

^ Page ^ Description ^
| [[indieweb:good_web|The Good Web]] | Broader than IndieWeb; good-faith disposition, social media stats, what it includes |
| [[indieweb:platform_stats|Platform Statistics]] | Medium, Tumblr, NeoCities numbers; where-not-what framing |
| [[indieweb:harm_reduction|Harm Reduction: Practical Steps]] | RSS, comments, data export, Mastodon, PixelFed, forums, hobbies, organizing |
| [[indieweb:indieweb_defined|The IndieWeb, Defined]] | Terminology, the spectrum, three redefined principles |
| [[indieweb:fun_accessible_small|Fun, Accessible, and Small]] | WCAG/POUR, 512KB Club, system fonts, progressive enhancement |
| [[indieweb:web_as_ecosystem|The Web as Ecosystem]] | Indra's Net, mycorrhizal networks, the wood wide web: why linking matters |
| [[indieweb:neighbourhood|Being a Good Neighbour]] | Blogrolls, webrings, IndieNews, XFN, link blogs, IndieWeb Carnival |
| [[indieweb:getting_started|Getting Started]] | Skill-level ladder from no-code to static sites; first steps |
| [[indieweb:principles|Principles]] | Own your data, POSSE, progressive enhancement, joy |
| [[indieweb:community|Community]] | Mastodon, Echofeed, RSS, Webmentions, IndieAuth, Micropub |
| [[indieweb:public_access_radio|Public Access TV & Community Radio]] | Cable commons history, Paper Tiger, guerrilla TV, radio as presence |
| [[indieweb:dreamwidth|Dreamwidth]] | History, Circle system, journal vs. blog form, design, QPR coinage |
| [[indieweb:syndication_vs_participation|Syndication vs. Participation]] | The difference, the POSSE clarification, the newcomer test |
| [[indieweb:digital_gentrification|Digital Gentrification]] | Lingel, the pattern, newcomer responsibility, commons framing |
| [[indieweb:omg_lol|omg.lol]] | Full service bundle: weblog, Mastodon, IRC, email, image hosting, source.tube |
| [[indieweb:blogging|Blogging Platforms]] | Pika, Bear Blog, omg.lol, DreamWidth, 100DaysToOffload |
| [[indieweb:commonplace_log|Commonplace Log]] | Daily microblog, gratitude journal, media tracker, Beeminder integration |
| [[indieweb:blogging_workflow|Blogging Workflow]] | Ideas, TK shorthand, frontmatter, image sourcing, syndication stack |
| [[indieweb:search|Search Engines]] | Kagi Small Web, Wiby, Marginalia |
| [[indieweb:directories|Directories & Blogrolls]] | Ye Olde Blogroll, ooh.directory, webrings |
| [[indieweb:web1_aesthetics|Web 1.0 Aesthetics]] | 88x31 badges, webrings, slash pages |
| [[indieweb:hosting|Hosting & Domains]] | NeoCities, NekoWeb, PorkBun, self-hosting |
| [[indieweb:browsers|Browsers]] | LibreWolf, Ladybird: alternatives to Chromium |
| [[indieweb:offline_knowledge|Offline Knowledge Preservation]] | Kiwix, ArchiveBox, HTTrack, Project Gutenberg |
| [[indieweb:progressive_enhancement|Progressive Enhancement]] | The .no-js pattern, noscript messaging |
| [[indieweb:graceful_degradation|Progressive Enhancement vs. Graceful Degradation]] | Why enhancement wins |
| [[indieweb:testing_nojs|Testing Without JavaScript]] | Lynx, DevTools, NoScript |
| [[indieweb:status_lol_twtxt|Syncing status.lol to twtxt]] | Eleventy + omg.lol API → twtxt flat file |
| [[indieweb:trust_online|Trust and Faith Online]] | AI tell-scan reflex, labelling debate, cultivating faith as a practice |
| [[indieweb:onboarding_gap|The IndieWeb Onboarding Gap]] | 500k video, 6 identified barriers, retention vs. onboarding, what is working |
| [[indieweb:long_web|The Long Web]] | Building for decades: framework rot, link rot, what survives |
| [[indieweb:internet_as_place|The Internet as a Place]] | Digital dualism, commons, enclosure, tending the place |
| [[indieweb:domain_of_ones_own|A Domain of One's Own]] | Woolf to UMW: your domain as a digital room, and its critique |
| [[indieweb:interlinking|Interlinking]] | Link culture, garden/stream/campfire, Justin Hall |
| [[indieweb:webmaster|Webmaster]] | The role's history from postmaster to GeoCities to today |
| [[indieweb:history_of_blogging|History of Blogging]] | Ship's log to weblog to blog: 450 years of the format |
| [[indieweb:ai_and_the_indieweb|Generative AI and the IndieWeb]] | The aaronpk disclosure, pro-human stance vs. maintainer reality |
| [[indieweb:deleting_corporate_social_media|Deleting Corporate Social Media]] | Export first, dark patterns, grace periods, the Meta tangle |
| [[indieweb:indie_platforms|Independent Platforms]] | Special Fish, Ctrl+Shift+3, web1.0 Hosting, Pillowfort |
| [[indieweb:vagueblogging|Vagueblogging]] | Vaguebooking/subtweeting: context collapse, disinhibition, cost |
| [[indieweb:supporting_indie_creators|Supporting Independent Creators]] | Sharing, labour, presence, and paying when you can |
| [[indieweb:staying_findable|Staying Findable]] | Stable identity across churn; the domain as forwarding address |
| [[indieweb:resources|Resources & Reading]] | Manifestos, philosophy, coding guides |
| [[indieweb:bashblog|bashblog]] | Blog engine in one bash script; the tilde-native option |
| [[indieweb:tiny_ssg|Minimal Static Site Generators]] | ssg, saait, mkws, stagit, lb, DIY pandoc |
| [[indieweb:pureblog|Pure Blog]] | Flat-file PHP blog: admin UI and drafts, no database |
| [[indieweb:rss_by_hand|RSS and Atom by Hand]] | Feed XML format, generation, validation |
| [[indieweb:html_css|Hand-Written HTML and CSS]] | Page skeleton, small-web CSS recipes, accessibility |

===== Why It Matters =====

Between 2021 and 2025, websites lost 60%+ of organic search traffic while AI-generated spam spread. Algorithm updates dropped from 10/year to 4 while volatility hit record levels. Human curation is no longer optional: it's essential infrastructure.

The IndieWeb is already here and growing as people leave corporate platforms.

===== Related =====

  * [[protocols:start|Protocols]]: Gemini, Gopher, Finger, twtxt
  * [[protocols:smallweb:solarpunk|Solarpunk and the Small Web]]
  * [[protocols:smallweb:browser_monoculture|Browser Monoculture]]
  * [[folkzone:philosophy|Homelab Philosophy]]
  * [[folkzone:permacomputing|Permacomputing]]
  * [[tilde:start|tilde.town]]


===== See Also =====

  * [[start|Return to wiki home]]