Good, Standard Work: Creating the Commons

principles

🗽 The IndieWeb Community is largely based on principles that we practice and aspire to, such as own your data and remember to have fun! You can read all of our guiding principles below.

Deep Roots, Real Power: Candid Stories from the Field

The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh

Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, protopian science fiction, and moderation seen through the lens of artisanal cheese.

Barefoot Developers

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology. Reading time: ~2 minute read | Published: Mar 17, 2025 | Updated: Oct 4, 2026

Open Source Explained — Open Indie

Musings on the concept of ‘open source’, in the broadest possible definition of the term. Also an invitation to become a participant in ...

IndieWeb - Open Collective

We are on a mission to help individuals own their online identity and data.

Indie Thinkers

A curated collection of quotes from the brightest minds on the internet.

Is Bluesky's "Decentralization" Real? – The Empty Promise of DIDs and the Path to a WordPress-Style Ecosystem - Nightflight

Home - DWeb for Creators - Gray Area

DWeb for Creators is an online course that empowers artists, designers, archivists, gallerists, curators, and others with the knowledge and tools necessary for exploring the decentralized web. Participants in this course engage with technologies like blockchain and mesh networks; examine case studies in curation, publishing, data sovereignty, and community building; and apply decolonial approaches to world building as they envision the future of DWeb technologies.

Community OS stack — Open Indie

The Great Untangling: Part 1 – Shaping the foundations. To sufficiently express my identity as a netizen I require: global group messag...

A more social IndieWeb | Dominik Hofer

My entry for the IndieWeb Carnival of December 2025 about the IndieWeb in 2030.

The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto

Three chords and a domain name. A manifesto for the DIY web.

The IndieWeb Movement: Owning Your Data and Being the Change You Want to See in the Web · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer

A look at what the IndieWeb is, why you should care, and how to get started with it.

A Bestiary of the Digital Wilds: The Score - Astral's Blog

Reclaiming Social Spaces: Are Open Source Platforms a Path for More Human Connection?

What if social media platforms were built to serve their communities, not billionaires? Join us with the founders of Blacksky as we explore the potential of open source social media.