directory
A directory on the web lists websites or pages typically grouped by topic or areas of interest, sometimes using categories or tags, often useful for finding niche communities and discovering new websites.
Why
Silos often provide recommendation engines or ideas about who to follow to give their users content to read. As IndieWeb adherents begin to own their own data on their own websites, they'll want services similar to these whether they are centralized or decentralized.
IndieWeb Examples
Blogrolls
- Blogrolls were an early method of providing an personal mini-directory of websites that were interesting or influential to early bloggers.
Webrings
Indie Map
- indie map is a public IndieWeb social graph and dataset, made by
Ryan Barrett and launched at IndieWeb Summit 2017. A list of the domains in the set can be found in the project's GitHub repository.
IndieWeb.xyz
- Indieweb.xyz is a syndication service cum directory organized into various subs, similar to Reddit, created by Kicks Condor. All interaction with the site, such as linking and upvoting, is performed by Webmention. Discussion happens on blog posts themselves, as per Indieweb convention.
IndieNews
- IndieNews is an indieweb news aggregator, similar to Hacker News, which only accepts submissions via webmention. The submissions form a defacto directory of people discussing IndieWeb related topics.
Indieseek
- Indieseek.xyz Indieweb Directory is a human edited, Indieweb directory created by Brad Enslen.
Hyperlink Node Directory
- Hyperlink Node Directory is project by Brad Enslen comprised of a collection of web links. It could be considered a directory of directories, and it can used for discovery of new websites and for surfing the web.
IndieWeb chat names
- chat-names - a directory on the IndieWeb.org wiki of many people in the chat
href.cool
- href.cool is a directory inspired by the old, failed link collections like the original Yahoo! and DMOZ created by Kicks Condor
Colin Walker Webmention Directory
- Colin Walker has a personal directory comprised of websites that have sent his site webmentions.
the dailywebthing linkport
- the dailywebthing linkport is a hybrid directory/linkblog operating since 2004 in its current form, and its sister site, dailywebthing daily pointers, since 2000, Both created by Joe Jenett
The IndieWeb Directory on Glitch
- IndieWeb Directory -- It is a directory of people with personal websites on the IndieWeb. Hosted on Glitch.
Examples in the Wild
Now Now Now
Now Now Now is directory of people built by Derek Sivers. Incidentally, because of it's set up, this is also a directory of people who have their own websites. See also: now
Tilde.club
A list of tilde.club servers with sites for a variety of people and users and based on the original tilde.club.
Personal Sites
Personal sites are awesome is a website, built by Andy Bell using a Github repo so we can all discover each others websites. All the links are by folks that want to share their site with the world.
OwnCast
OwnCast runs a directory of OwnCast instances at https://directory.owncast.online. You can opt your instance in to publishing to the directory, and your instance will appear at the top when it's actively streaming.
districts on Neocities
districts is "a site directory created on Neocities for Neocities". A place to discover other people who have been creating (mostly oldschool) web pages about their interests on Neocities.
Blog Surf
Blog Surf is a directory both of sites and of blog posts. As of 2020-02-27 it indexes 752 blogs. These blogs are categorised by tags within the directory. The directory also keeps a list of posts made by these blogs and is able to show either the latest posts of the whole collection, or on a per-tag basis.
ooh.directory
ooh directory is a directory of blogs personally curated by Phil Gyford. There is a list of criteria for inclusion. The main criteria is the inclusion of an Atom or RSS feed, be updated in the last few months, self-submit. It also includes a , be in English, among other criteria. It includes a directory by category, a [random blog page], a list of updated list of [recently updated blogs] with their most recent post. See ooh.directory
Blog of the .Day
Blog of the .Day features a random indieweb blog each day. It features an RSS feed one can subscribe to. Instructions for including a blog appear on the site. Created by 
capjamesg, now stewarded by 
Articles
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- Brad Enslen and Kicks Condor have a variety of articles they've written on this topic since 2017 and before.
- Foundations of a tiny directory Kicks Condor lays out the importance of the human element and reasons for a tiny directory.
Brainstorming
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- How to build
- Directory Building Just Got Easier, Cheaper and Indieweb lays out how to build a hybrid directory/linkblog using Wordpress complete with Indieweb features.
- Indieweb features
- Centralized vs. Decentralized
- Decentralized Search and the Indieweb Brainstorms about offering an alternative decentralized discovery means via blogrolls, linkblogs and particularly "many hundreds" of small directories. The theory being if people are constantly bumping into different directories everywhere they go, they will eventually start using them.
See Also
- recommendation_engine
- discovery
- who to follow
- search
- planet
- tags
- person-tag
- indie map
- webring
- blogroll
- Progressive Web App Directory
- h-card as a service
- http://markvigeant.directory/
- http://community.bergbuilds.domains/
- unmung's Mastoview is very similar to a directory with a randomizer built in
- https://refined.blog/ a list of personal software blogs collected and organized from various sources with Hacker News scores calculated/displayed as an indicator of value to the collection. Includes links to feeds as well as the ability to generate an OPML of the list.
- Example directory of personal site home pages: https://melonland.net/surf-club