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IndieWeb is a community of people building software to enable personal, independently hosted websites to independently maintain their social data on their own web domains rather than on large, centralized social networking services. First developed at a series of conferences known as
IndieWebCamp IndieWebCamp is a technology BarCamp that was founded in Portland, Oregon and has since been held all over the world, including at the offices of the ''New York Times'' and in Brighton, England. It describes itself as a 2-day creator camp focused ...
by Tantek Çelik, Amber Case,
Aaron Parecki According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron ''′aharon'', ar, هارون, Hārūn, Greek (Septuagint): Ἀαρών; often called Aaron the priest ()., group="note" ( or ; ''’Ahărōn'') was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of ...
, Crystal Beasley and Kevin Marks,Dan Gillmor
Welcome to the Indie Web Movement
Slate, 2014
it uses a suite of tools including
Webmention Webmention is a W3C recommendation that describes a simple protocol to notify any URL when a website links to it, and for web pages to request notifications when somebody links to them. Webmention was originally developed in the IndieWebCamp co ...
and
microformats Microformats (μF) are a set of defined HTML classes created to serve as consistent and descriptive metadata about an element, designating it as representing a certain type of data (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, events ...
in order to decentralize social communication and distribution of content.


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Solid (web decentralization project) Solid (Social Linked Data) is a web decentralization project led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, originally developed collaboratively at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The project "aims to radical ...
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Distributed social network A distributed social network or federated social network is an Internet social networking service that is decentralized and distributed across distinct service providers (similar to email, but for social networks), such as the Fediverse or the I ...
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Comparison of software and protocols for distributed social networking Distributed social network projects generally develop software Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the ...


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