Your website.
Your rules.
The IndieWeb is a movement to take back ownership of your online presence. Instead of renting space on someone else's platform, you publish on your own site — and keep control of everything you create.
Learn more at indieweb.orgWhat is the IndieWeb?
A simple idea: your website should be yours.
Own your content
When you post on social media, the platform owns your words. They can delete your posts, change who sees them, or shut down entirely. On the IndieWeb, your content lives on your domain, in files you control. Nobody can take it away.
Own your identity
Your domain name is your identity — not a username on someone else's service. When a social network disappears (remember MySpace? Vine? Google+?), your identity disappears with it. A personal domain follows you forever.
Stay connected
Owning your site doesn't mean being isolated. IndieWeb technologies let your site talk to other sites and services — comments, likes, reposts — all flowing between independent websites instead of through a single company's servers.
Why it matters
Platforms come and go. Your website shouldn't.
Platform lock-in
Try exporting your content from most website builders. You'll get a partial dump — if you get anything at all. Your design, your SEO history, your URLs? Gone. With a static site you own, everything is portable files you can move anywhere.
Algorithm changes
Social platforms decide who sees your posts. One algorithm update and your reach drops overnight. When people visit your website directly — or subscribe to your RSS feed — no algorithm stands between you and your audience.
Data loss
Services shut down, accounts get hacked, companies get acquired. Years of writing, photos, and connections can vanish. Your own website, backed up in Git, is as durable as you want it to be.
Censorship
Platforms can remove content for any reason — or no reason. Sometimes it's a mistake. Sometimes it's policy you disagree with. Your own site, on your own domain, is governed by your values and the law — not a content moderation team's judgment call.
IndieWeb building blocks
These are the technologies that make it work — and how Anglesite uses each one.
POSSE
Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Write a blog post on your site first. Then share it to social media. Your site is the source of truth — social posts are just links back to it.
What I do: I generate social media posts from your blog entries, ready to copy-paste to Bluesky, Mastodon, or wherever you share. Your site always comes first.
Microformats
Small bits of markup in your HTML that tell other software what your content means. Your name, your address, your blog posts — all machine-readable without an API. Think of them as labels that help computers understand what's on your page.
What I do: I add h-card (your identity), h-entry (your blog posts), and other microformats automatically. Your site header is already a valid h-card.
IndieAuth
Sign in to other websites using your own domain — no password, no third-party account needed. Your website is your identity. It's like "Sign in with Google," except you're the identity provider.
What I do: I set up the rel="me" links and authorization endpoints that make IndieAuth work. You can sign in to IndieWeb services using your domain.
Webmention
A way for websites to notify each other when they're mentioned — like @-mentions, but across the entire web. When someone links to your post, your site can know about it and display it as a comment, like, or repost.
What I do: I include Webmention support so your site can receive notifications when other sites link to you. Cross-site conversations without a central platform.
rel="me"
A link on your website that says "this social media profile is also me." It's how you prove your identity across the web — your domain vouches for your profiles, and your profiles vouch for your domain.
What I do: I add rel="me" to your social links in the footer and header automatically. This is how Mastodon verifies your website, and how IndieAuth confirms your identity.
RSS
The original follow button. RSS lets people subscribe to your site and read new posts in their feed reader — no algorithm, no login, no tracking. It's been around since 1999 and it still works.
What I do: I generate an RSS feed automatically from your blog posts. Anyone with a feed reader can follow you without creating an account anywhere.
The big picture
The web was built to be decentralized. Anyone could publish. Anyone could link. No gatekeepers.
Somewhere along the way, we handed that power to a handful of platforms. The IndieWeb is about taking it back — not by abandoning social media, but by making your own site the center of your online life.
You still share on social media. You still connect with people. You just do it on your terms, from a home base that nobody can take away from you.
Ready to own your corner of the web?
I set up all of these IndieWeb technologies automatically. You don't need to understand the plumbing — just tell me what you want, and I'll make your site a first-class citizen of the open web.
Get startedLearn more about the IndieWeb movement at indieweb.org.