Welcome to IndieBits

system · January 3, 2022, 12:06am

IndieBits is a community centered around decentralization. Let’s talk about self-hosting, data ownership, open protocols, interoperability, privacy, individual agency in computing, the health impacts of technology choices, and everything in between.

stokito · June 15, 2023, 1:35pm

Is it somehow related to IndieWeb?
I also made a list of some selfhosting movements and projects

github.com

yurt-page/docs/blob/main/alternatives.md

# Similar projects or what do we have today
## Movements, communities and organizations

### Selfhosted communities
* https://noted.lol/ web site dedicated to selfhosting
* [/r/selfhosted/](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/) reddit discussions
* [Awesome Selfhosted](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted) directory of software
* [Self-Hosting Guide](https://github.com/mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide)
* [wiki: Self-hosting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(web_services))
* [IndieBits](https://forum.indiebits.io/)

### IndieWeb
[IndieWeb](https://indieweb.org/) is a movement to leave social networks (they call them Silos) and use personal sites.
They're working on creation of easy to use small website engines, technologies and standards to simplify websites to interact with each others.
For example [WebMention](https://indieweb.org/Webmention) protocol allows to easily see when someone makes repost from your site.

* https://indieweb.org/
* https://github.com/pfefferle/awesome-indieweb

Yurt is not related to IndieWeb because ideologically is different (we are fine with some centralization) and almost nothing can't be reused from technology stack. But we'll try to align with this movement.

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anders · June 15, 2023, 7:12pm

Hi @stokito,

Thanks for sharing your project! I’m looking forward to reading more about Yurt Page, and I’ve added your list to our links page

IndieBits.io isn’t directly affiliated with IndieWeb, but IndieWeb is definitely an inspiration and shares a lot of principles. I’m planning an overhaul of my personal website in large part so that I can implement many of the IndieWeb protocols.

I created IndieBits in part because I feel like a lot of the selfhosting community currently is heavily focused on educating people about servers, DNS, port forwarding, tunneling, NAT, CGNAT, TLS, firewalls, system updates, etc etc. I think this is great, but I want to lower the barrier of entry to selfhosting and make it more accessible for less technical people. So that’s a bit more of the focus here.

gzzz · July 27, 2024, 11:50am

Hello, I’ve just discovered this community, I’ve also just discovered SirTunnel/boringproxy/takingnames and all the self-hosting solutions you have on github, amazing work!
I’m excited to share a project with this community that I think is in line with your values - Nostr. It’s an open network protocol based on cryptographic identities, with a thriving community of hackers, self-hosters and people who value self-sovereignty and freedom. I think the ethos of nostr really resonates with the spirit you embody through your software and this community.

I encourage you to explore nostr and connect with the people working on it. Here are some resources if you want to dig a little:

Nostr’s official introduction: https://nostr.com/
Nostr repo: GitHub - nostr-protocol/nostr: a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working
Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or need help getting started with nostr!