# Organization: IndieWeb Community

**Type:** Decentralized community / nonprofit infrastructure
**Founded:** 2011
**Base:** International (origins: Portland, OR)
**URL:** https://indieweb.org

**Mission:** Enable people to own their own data, have their own website, and be in control of their online presence — rather than depending on third-party platforms.

**Problems Addressed:**
- **Primary:** PR-00006 (Platform Feudalism) — the IndieWeb is the direct counter-movement to platform feudalism. Own your domain, own your data, own your identity.
- **Secondary:** PR-00005 (Epistemic Power Concentration) — owning your publishing infrastructure is owning your epistemic space.

**Key Principles:**
- **POSSE** (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) — publish first on your own site, then distribute to platforms
- **Own your data** — your posts, photos, checkins, etc. should live on infrastructure you control
- **Open standards** — Webmention, Micropub, ActivityPub, h-card, h-entry — interoperability without platform lock-in
- **Selfdogfood** — use what you build; IndieWeb tools are built by and for their creators

**Projects / Tools:**
- Webmention.io — cross-site interaction standard
- Micropub — publishing API standard (W3C Recommendation)
- ActivityPub — federated social standard (W3C Recommendation, basis of Mastodon/Fediverse)
- IndieWebCamps — annual community gatherings

**Connection to Values:** VA-00005 (Digital Autonomy Is Political), VA-00001 (Epistemic Sovereignty)
**Connection to Plans:** de-plan1-sven.md — STRATEGY 1 (federated citizen-controlled infrastructure)
**Connection to Arguments:** AR-00001 (Platform Feudalism Threatens Democracy) — IndieWeb as structural response