The next time a new social media site comes along, you can plug it in to your existing system. And the next time a social media site dies or becomes untenable, you just disconnect it. With this model, even when a platform goes under, you lose relatively little: your posts still remain live and under your control on your site, even if the copies of them on the disconnected website are abandoned or deleted.
Indie Web, at its essence is our own place away from the corporate web, the social media behemoths, and the algorithms preventing us from finding the content we really seek.
Let me be extremely clear. You do not need Webmentions to be part of the “IndieWeb”. The only real “requirement”, if you want to think of it that way, is to just have your own site on your own domain where you put your own stuff. That’s it.
Tiny Awards exist to celebrate the personal internet, what we described last year as ‘the other web, the one that is small and handmade and isn’t trying to sell you anything or monetise anything but which instead is about people using the digital tools we all have access to to make the sorts of small, personal experiences that you tend not to see ‘in feed’’.
This site was built to share and revel in each others’ personal sites. Witness these in wonderment and awe.
We can all actively participate in rebuilding the web by having our own independent websites and linking to each other’s websites whenever and wherever possible.
This is the story of the birth of the web, its loss of innocence, its decline, and what we can do to make it a bit less gross.
h-card is a simple, open format for publishing people and organisations on the web.
Own Your Web is a newsletter by Matthias Ott about designing, building, creating, and publishing for and on the Web.
