directory

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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

Main article: blogroll
  • Blogrolls were an early method of providing an personal mini-directory of websites that were interesting or influential to early bloggers.

Webrings

Main article: webring

Indie Map

Main article: indie map

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

Hyperlink Node Directory

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

the dailywebthing linkport

The IndieWeb Directory 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

Articles

Brainstorming

  • How to build
  • 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.

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