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Your content is yours
When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your control.
You are better connected
Your articles and status messages can go to all services, not just one, allowing you to engage with everyone. Even replies and likes on other services can come back to your site so they’re all in one place.
You are in control
You can post anything you want, in any format you want, with no one monitoring you. In addition, you share simple readable links such as example.com/ideas. These links are permanent and will always work.The IndieWeb is a community of individual personal websites, connected by simple standards, based on the principles of owning your domain, using it as your primary identity, to publish on your own site (optionally syndicate elsewhere), and own your data. Read more →
Join the IndieWeb
- Get Started Now! Or learn more: Why IndieWeb?
- Read This Week in the IndieWeb for weekly highlights, or view all recent contributions
- Join #indieweb chat (real-time log) and use & contribute to projects we're building!
Beyond Blogging and Decentralization
The IndieWeb effort is different from previous efforts/communities:
- Principles over project-centrism. Others assume a monoculture of one project for all. We are developing a plurality of projects. The IndieWeb community has a code-of-conduct.
- Selfdogfood instead of email. Show before tell. Prioritize by scratching your own itches, creating, iterating on your own site.
- Design first, protocols & formats second. Focus on good UX & selfdogfood prototypes to create minimum necessary formats & protocols.
Perhaps most importantly, we are people-focused instead of project-focused, and have regular meetups where everyone is welcome.
Homebrew Website Club
Homebrew Website Club is a (bi)weekly meetup of creatives passionate about improving their own websites, sharing successes & challenges with a like-minded and supportive community.
Homebrew Website Club meets fortnightly (every other Wednesday*) right after work, 18:30-19:30, across cities and online.
- Some cities also have a 17:30-18:30 Quiet Writing Hour beforehand.
- Some cities meet weekly or monthly
Upcoming Homebrew Website Club meetups
IndieWeb Pop-Ups
Pop-Ups are online events about a specific topic, similar to an extended discussion session at an in-person IndieWebCamp.
Upcoming Pop-Ups
- - IndieAuth 2 Popup Session
- - Gardens and Streams II
- - IndieAuth Popup Session
- - Microsub Popup Session
- - IndieWebCamp Popup: Sensitive Data on Your Personal Website
- - IndieWebCamp Pop-Up Session: Respectful Responses
More Pop-Ups are being planned. Jump on in and help facilitate, suggest dates, and/or propose a topic: Proposals
IndieWebCamp
IndieWebCamp is a two day gathering of web creators building & sharing their own websites to advance the independent web. We spend a day discussing, and a day hacking & creating to empower ourselves and others to own our own identities and data.
Upcoming IndieWebCamps
On hold for pandemic reasons, but future IndieWebCamps are being planned, however we have maintained a full slate of online activities! Jump on in and help organize and/or suggest dates, and locations for more!
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- 한국어 (Korean)
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- 中文 (Chinese)
- Italiano (Italian)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Русский (Russian)
- See also other-languages, and how-to-start-a-new-translation.
More Information
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