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.
| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| The Good Web | Broader than IndieWeb; good-faith disposition, social media stats, what it includes |
| Platform Statistics | Medium, Tumblr, NeoCities numbers; where-not-what framing |
| Harm Reduction: Practical Steps | RSS, comments, data export, Mastodon, PixelFed, forums, hobbies, organizing |
| The IndieWeb, Defined | Terminology, the spectrum, three redefined principles |
| Fun, Accessible, and Small | WCAG/POUR, 512KB Club, system fonts, progressive enhancement |
| The Web as Ecosystem | Indra's Net, mycorrhizal networks, the wood wide web: why linking matters |
| Being a Good Neighbour | Blogrolls, webrings, IndieNews, XFN, link blogs, IndieWeb Carnival |
| Getting Started | Skill-level ladder from no-code to static sites; first steps |
| Principles | Own your data, POSSE, progressive enhancement, joy |
| Community | Mastodon, Echofeed, RSS, Webmentions, IndieAuth, Micropub |
| Public Access TV & Community Radio | Cable commons history, Paper Tiger, guerrilla TV, radio as presence |
| Dreamwidth | History, Circle system, journal vs. blog form, design, QPR coinage |
| Syndication vs. Participation | The difference, the POSSE clarification, the newcomer test |
| Digital Gentrification | Lingel, the pattern, newcomer responsibility, commons framing |
| omg.lol | Full service bundle: weblog, Mastodon, IRC, email, image hosting, source.tube |
| Blogging Platforms | Pika, Bear Blog, omg.lol, DreamWidth, 100DaysToOffload |
| Commonplace Log | Daily microblog, gratitude journal, media tracker, Beeminder integration |
| Blogging Workflow | Ideas, TK shorthand, frontmatter, image sourcing, syndication stack |
| Search Engines | Kagi Small Web, Wiby, Marginalia |
| Directories & Blogrolls | Ye Olde Blogroll, ooh.directory, webrings |
| Web 1.0 Aesthetics | 88×31 badges, webrings, slash pages |
| Hosting & Domains | NeoCities, NekoWeb, PorkBun, self-hosting |
| Browsers | LibreWolf, Ladybird: alternatives to Chromium |
| Offline Knowledge Preservation | Kiwix, ArchiveBox, HTTrack, Project Gutenberg |
| Progressive Enhancement | The .no-js pattern, noscript messaging |
| Progressive Enhancement vs. Graceful Degradation | Why enhancement wins |
| Testing Without JavaScript | Lynx, DevTools, NoScript |
| Syncing status.lol to twtxt | Eleventy + omg.lol API → twtxt flat file |
| Trust and Faith Online | AI tell-scan reflex, labelling debate, cultivating faith as a practice |
| The IndieWeb Onboarding Gap | 500k video, 6 identified barriers, retention vs. onboarding, what is working |
| The Long Web | Building for decades: framework rot, link rot, what survives |
| The Internet as a Place | Digital dualism, commons, enclosure, tending the place |
| A Domain of One's Own | Woolf to UMW: your domain as a digital room, and its critique |
| Interlinking | Link culture, garden/stream/campfire, Justin Hall |
| Webmaster | The role's history from postmaster to GeoCities to today |
| History of Blogging | Ship's log to weblog to blog: 450 years of the format |
| Generative AI and the IndieWeb | The aaronpk disclosure, pro-human stance vs. maintainer reality |
| Deleting Corporate Social Media | Export first, dark patterns, grace periods, the Meta tangle |
| Independent Platforms | Special Fish, Ctrl+Shift+3, web1.0 Hosting, Pillowfort |
| Vagueblogging | Vaguebooking/subtweeting: context collapse, disinhibition, cost |
| Supporting Independent Creators | Sharing, labour, presence, and paying when you can |
| Staying Findable | Stable identity across churn; the domain as forwarding address |
| Resources & Reading | Manifestos, philosophy, coding guides |
| bashblog | Blog engine in one bash script; the tilde-native option |
| Minimal Static Site Generators | ssg, saait, mkws, stagit, lb, DIY pandoc |
| Pure Blog | Flat-file PHP blog: admin UI and drafts, no database |
| RSS and Atom by Hand | Feed XML format, generation, validation |
| Hand-Written HTML and CSS | Page skeleton, small-web CSS recipes, accessibility |
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.