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IndieWeb is a community of people building software to enable personal independently hosted websites to maintain their social data on their own web domains rather than on large, centralized social networking services. It was first developed at a series of conferences known as IndieWebCamp by Tantek Çelik, Amber Case, Aaron Parecki, Crystal Beasley [1] and Kevin Marks. [2] [3] [4] It uses a suite of tools including Webmention [5] [6] and microformats [7] to decentralize social communication and distribution of content.

Contents

The IndieWeb [8] is based on 10 core principles: [9]

  1. Own your data. [10]
  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. [7]
  8. Modularity. [11]
  9. Longevity. [12]
  10. Plurality. [13] [14]

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

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References

  1. ↑ "Founders". IndieWebCamp. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Ben Werdmuller: The IndieWeb as a minimally viable social web ecosystem W3C, 2013
  3. ↑ Klint Finley: Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet Wired, 2013
  4. ↑ Dan Gillmor: Welcome to the Indie Web Movement Slate, 2014
  5. ↑ Aldrich, Chris. "Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet". A List Apart. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
  6. ↑ Reece, Manton. "Webmention". Indie Microblogging (book). Manton Reece. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
  7. 1 2 Reece, Manton. "Microformats". Indie Microblogging (book). Manton Reece. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
  8. ↑ Reece, Manton. "IndieWeb". Indie Microblogging (book). Manton Reece. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
  9. ↑ Çelik, Tantek; Case, Amber; Parecki, Aaron; Beasley, Crystal; Marks, Kevin. "IndieWeb: Key Principles". indieweb.org. IndieWeb. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
  10. ↑ Reece, Manton. "Owning your content". Indie Microblogging (book). Manton Reece. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
  11. ↑ Reece, Manton. "Building Blocks". Indie Microblogging (book). Manton Reece. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
  12. ↑ Reece, Manton. "Permanence". Indie Microblogging (book). Manton Reece. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
  13. ↑ Reece, Manton. "Silos". Indie Microblogging (book). Manton Reece. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
  14. ↑ Reece, Manton. "Cross-posting". Indie Microblogging (book). Retrieved 2023-01-14.
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