Web Discovery

Entrypoints to the authentic web

If you’re here, we hope you’ve checked out Explore or its more orderly cousin Explore Sorted. There are a few other great indieweb discovery projects, here are some of our favorites:

Posts about web entrypoints

• A look at search engines with their own indexes has a list small web search projects with helpful commentary 🪐
• Notes on the “indieweb” #2: Where do I find things to read? discusses RSS, newsletters, and microblogs 🪐
• How I Discover New Blogs lists a variety of indieweb discovery sites 🪐
• /g/’s based sites contains a categorized list of alternative search engines and other points of interest

A few blog posts about the web

• In Praise of Links (2025) 🪐
• My IndieWeb Journey: Building, Sharing, and Owning Your Online Presence. (2025) 🪐
• The IndieWeb’s next stage? (2024) 🪐
• We Need to Bring Back Webrings (2023) 🪐
• What happened to blogging for the hell of it? (2023) 🪐
• A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox (2022) 🪐
• Some thoughts on walled gardens (2022)
• The IndieWeb for Everyone (2022) 🪐
• The IndieWeb Mixed Bag (2021) 🪐
• The small web is beautiful (2021) 🪐
• The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021) 🪐
• The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (2019) 🪐
• An Introduction to the IndieWeb (2017) 🪐
• How the Blog Broke the Web (2017) 🪐
• Indie Web (2015) 🪐
• Why the Indie Web movement is so important (2014) 🪐
• The Slow Web (2012) 🪐

On the replacement of independent websites by social media:

Those who would give up essential liberty to decide whom to follow, for getting a little temporary convenience in exchange, deserve neither to choose what to read nor convenience - adiian