Adam Newbold July 18, 2026 If you’re not familiar with the IndieWeb movement, it’s a practical approach to maintaining your presence on the web that emphasizes fully owning your identity and your content. This is especially relevant now, at a time when a growing number of corporations want to own and control those things for you. The IndieWeb ethos seeks to eliminate external influence and control over both you and your stuff. And as with any movement, there are a bunch of different services out there aiming to help you plug into this modern independent web. I even run one myself! But I always place my values over profit, so I don’t have any problem sharing the simple truth that you don’t need a fancy subscription blogging service to join the IndieWeb . In fact, when you use one of those services, you’re actually taking a step back from real independence, because your content often winds up living in someone else’s database on someone else’s server.…