updates from fediverse and indieweb projects
What Is The IndieWeb?
It's for anyone who misses when the internet felt like yours, or those who'd like to know that feeling.
Imagine the internet is a big city.
Most people live in giant apartment buildings owned by tech billionaires—Facebook Towers, TikTok Plaza, Google Heights. Rent’s free, but there’s a catch:
🕵️ They listen to every conversation.
🧠 They sell your thoughts.
🚪And they can evict you whenever they want.
Now picture the IndieWeb as the charming old neighborhood where people build their own houses.
Each site is handcrafted. Quirky. Personal.
A blog here. A digital garden there. A web shrine to cat memes across the street.
And the best part?
These homes are yours.
You own them. You make the rules. You decide who visits, what’s shared, and how it all feels. You’re not just a renter on the internet—you’re a homeowner.
🧁 Still With Me? Here’s the Scoop:
The IndieWeb is:
A movement of people reclaiming their corner of the web.
About owning your content, instead of handing it over to platforms that’ll monetize it without asking.
Connected, not isolated—you can still link, comment, share, and interact… just without needing a middleman.
It’s like:
Having a personal diary instead of tweeting into the void.
Cooking your own meal instead of ordering mystery sludge from a shady takeout place that sells your eating habits to ad companies.
🛠️ What Do People Do on the IndieWeb?
- They make blogs that reflect their thoughts, not a brand strategy.
- They build “about me” pages that aren’t just LinkedIn clones.
- They write, draw, post, archive, play—and they connect with others doing the same.
You can host your own, or, use some use tools like:
- Bear Blog – privacy first, no nonsense, bear-bones blogging.
- Write.as – minimal writing, maximum control.
- Neocities – throwback fun to the old internet but modern.
No tracking. No likes-for-validation. Just humans being humans on the web.
🪴 Final Analogy:
If social media is a food court in a megamall—loud, commercial, and full of surveillance—the IndieWeb is your backyard garden.
You plant what you like.
You share it with neighbors.
And you sit out there at sunset with a smile, knowing no algorithm’s gonna come tell you what’s trending.