https://vellosa.com/tags/indieweb/Recent content in Indieweb on vellosa.comHugoenWed, 21 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000https://vellosa.com/blog/2026/first-indieweb-homebrew-meetup/Wed, 21 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000https://vellosa.com/blog/2026/first-indieweb-homebrew-meetup/<p>I took the leap and joined my first <a href="https://indieweb.org/events/2026-05-20-hwc-europe">IndieWeb Homebrew event</a><sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> last night. A welcoming group of people, and really well moderated by <a href="https://jamesg.blog/">James</a><sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup>. (I need to figure out how I mention people properly here)</p> <p>IndieWeb’s draw for me is the promise of <a href="https://indieweb.org/POSSE">POSSE</a><sup id="fnref:3"><a href="#fn:3" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">3</a></sup> - Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. You are not writing for LinkedIn, facebook, medium, X, etc., you are writing for your own site. Then your writing is also published via these other services, which link back as the original source. The important part being that you always own your work, and when services like google+ (yeah, I’m that old) shut down, you are not scrambling to export your data.</p>