What is the Indie Web?
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. - indieweb.org
Related Articles
- Why the Indie Web movement is so important by Dan Gillmore
- My IndieWeb Journey: Building, Sharing, and Owning Your Online Presence by Ana Rodrigues
- The IndieWeb for Everyone by Max Böck
- The web we want: A beginner’s guide to the IndieWeb by Paul Robert Lloyd
- The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to 'Take Off' By Susam Pal
- The Indie Web, a supplement for social media disappointment by Kyle Lambert
- Small Web, Indie Web by Scott Willsey
- The internet used to be fun by Rachel J. Kwon
- Manifesto for a Humane Web by Michelle Barker
- We can have a different web by Molly White
- Discovery on the small web by Matthew Brown
- Rediscovering the Small Web by Parimal Satyal
- The small web is beautiful by Ben Hoyt
- It’s Time to Get Personal by Laura Kalbag
- Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece
- Into the Personal-Website-Verse by Matthias Ott
Blogging Platforms
- Bear Blog - A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform. This is a blogging platform where words matter most. Shun the bloat of the current web, embrace the bear necessities.
- Micro.blog - Easy blogging at your own domain name for short posts, full essays, photo blogs, and email newsletters, with a great community, cross-posting to other networks, and more.
- Pika - a simple blogging platform that exists to make it easy to write and express your thoughts and feelings on your own terms.
- Scribbles - Start your own blog in seconds with a beautiful minimal theme, an intuitive dashboard, and an amazing editor that doesn't get in your way.
- Pagecord - Create your home page and blog in seconds. A powerful editor when you need it, post by email when you don't.
- Blot - Blot creates a website from a folder. Files in the folder become posts or pages on your site. Update your site by adding, removing, or editing files directly.
Resources
- Resources List for the Personal Web via 32-bit Cafe
- Bear Library - A collection of Bear themes, add-ons, and color palettes. Even though everything was made with Bear in mind, a lot of it works just fine on other blogging platforms too. It's a great resource if you like to tinker with CSS.
- Blogger's Toolbox - A living hub of blogging resources curated by Robert Birming. It's well organized and updated often with good stuff.
Communities
- omg.lol - Treat yourself to an awesome web address, a devastatingly gorgeous profile page, a stellar email address, and tons more.
- 32-bit Cafe - We're a community of like-minded website hobbyists and professionals helping to make the personal web fruitful and bountiful again, full of self-expression and removing the capitalistic drive out of it.
Other
- Good Internet - A magazine for the non-corporate and independent web, use of code as an art medium, and web development enthusiasm of hobbyists and professionals alike