IndieWeb

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The IndieWeb is a community of people using various tools to self-host on the web. The term has also been used to refer to independent, or non-corporate social media services such as Mastodon.[1]

Sites on the IndieWeb are often known for their lack of formality, and are user-centered in nature, rather than being optimized for search engines or other metrics.[2] Tools such as Webmention[3][4] and microformats[5] are sometimes used by webmasters on the IndieWeb in order to decentralize social communication and distribution of content.

History

The Indieweb began shortly after the launch of GeoCities in 1994.[6] GeoCities was a free web-host that hosted millions of personal HTML based websites. In 2009 when GeoCities was shut down by Yahoo, many websites disappeared with it. However many of the sites were archived through the GeoCities Gallery, albeit with broken links and missing images, rendering most of the sites incomplete. The concept of IndieWeb was first developed in 2011 at a series of conferences known as IndieWebCamp by Tantek Çelik, Amber Case, Aaron Parecki, Crystal Beasley[7] and Kevin Marks.[8][9][10]

On June 28, 2013 Kyle Drake officially launched NeoCities. A self-hosting service with the expressed goal to "To rebuild the web we lost to algorithms and monotony, and make it as fun and creative as it was back in the 90's "[11]

Tools

Many sites on the IndieWeb use free web-hosting services such as NeoCities or Nekoweb.[2]

Culture

The IndieWeb has developed a shared culture among its users. Many users of the IndieWeb are anti-AI as well as anti-social media.[2]

Principles

According to Indieweb.org, the IndieWeb[12] is based on 10 core principles:[13]

  1. Own your data.[14]
  2. Use & publish visible data for humans first, machines second.
  3. Make what you need.
  4. Use what you make.
  5. Document your stuff.
  6. Open source your stuff.
  7. UX and design is more important than protocols, formats, data models, schema etc.[5]
  8. Modularity.[15]
  9. Longevity.[16]
  10. Plurality.[17][18]

and an informal eleventh: "Above all, Have fun."

See also

References

  1. ↑ Newport, Cal (2019-05-18). "Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?" (in en-US). The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-indie-social-media-save-us. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bonifield, Stevie (2025-11-30). "The indie web is here to make the internet weird again" (in en-US). https://www.theverge.com/column/829831/indie-web-geocities-neocities. 
  3. ↑ Aldrich, Chris. "Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet". https://alistapart.com/article/webmentions-enabling-better-communication-on-the-internet/. 
  4. ↑ Reece, Manton. "Webmention". Manton Reece. https://book.micro.blog/webmention/. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Reece, Manton. "Microformats". Manton Reece. https://book.micro.blog/microformats/. 
  6. ↑ "history" (in en). https://indieweb.org/history. 
  7. ↑ "Founders". http://indiewebcamp.com/founders. Retrieved 2 April 2015. 
  8. ↑ Ben Werdmuller: The IndieWeb as a minimally viable social web ecosystem W3C, 2013
  9. ↑ Klint Finley: Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet Wired, 2013
  10. ↑ Dan Gillmor: Welcome to the Indie Web Movement Slate, 2014
  11. ↑ "Neocities" (in en). https://neocities.org/about. 
  12. ↑ Reece, Manton. "IndieWeb". Manton Reece. https://book.micro.blog/indieweb/. 
  13. ↑ Çelik, Tantek; Case, Amber; Parecki, Aaron; Beasley, Crystal; Marks, Kevin. "IndieWeb: Key Principles". IndieWeb. https://indieweb.org/principles. 
  14. ↑ Reece, Manton. "Owning your content". Manton Reece. https://book.micro.blog/owning-your-content/. 
  15. ↑ Reece, Manton. "Building Blocks". Manton Reece. https://book.micro.blog/building-blocks/. 
  16. ↑ Reece, Manton. "Permanence". Manton Reece. https://book.micro.blog/permanence/. 
  17. ↑ Reece, Manton. "Silos". Manton Reece. https://book.micro.blog/silos/. 
  18. ↑ Reece, Manton. "Cross-posting". https://book.micro.blog/cross-posting/. 



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