IndieWeb
The IndieWeb is a community of independent and personal websites based on the principles of owning your domain and using it as your primary online identity, publishing on your own site first (optionally elsewhere), and owning your content.
Want to get started on the IndieWeb? See Getting Started.
About The IndieWeb
IndieWeb Standards
- IndieAuth - to authenticate with your website
- Webmention - to notify other websites, for peer-to-peer comments, likes, and other responses
- Micropub - to publish to your site using a variety of clients
- WebSub - to get real time updates on other sites' new content
- Microsub - (experimental) to follow others, collect posts, read, and interact with them
Syndication and Cross-posting
- POSSE - Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
- PESOS - Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site
- other methods of cross-posting
Quotes from community members
- 2024-01-26
Tantek Çelik: The #IndieWeb is for everyone… The #IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants to be part of the world-wide-web of interconnected people. The social internet of people, a network of networks of people, connected peer-to-peer in human-scale groups, communities of locality and affinity.
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The IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants independence from organizations, independence of agency to associate, and who embraces the web of humans that want to interconnect, to communicate, to value and respect each other, whether one degree apart or thirty.
- 2024-01-27
capjamesg: The indie web, in which he says "To have a personal website is, presently, an act of rebellion. It is a statement." Later in the post, James notes "The web is yours. You can put up a website where you share whatever it is that you want to share with others."
Routes
- a hosted content solution such as Tumblr or WordPress.com
- a full-service web site hosting service that maintains a CMS install and databases for you
- a web hosting service where you maintain your own project