How to find people and build an audience on the IndieWeb without algorithms.
Decentralized, open-source microblogging. Like an old-school Twitter without the billionaire and without the algorithm pushing outrage.
#IndieWeb and #SmallWeb hashtagsEchofeed — echofeed.app — automatically publishes new blog posts to your Mastodon account when you publish to your site. Set it up once; it runs forever.
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.xml or /rss.xml automatically with most platformsA 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.
<link> tag to your site's <head> pointing to your webmention endpointIndieAuth 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 is a W3C standard API for posting to your site from any compatible client.
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.