How did you discover the IndieWeb?

I’m grateful for the IndieWeb community. I feel as if I’ve found my online tribe here.

I think I first discovered the IndieWeb somewhere around June 2026. I’ve had blogs way before that, but until the beginning of 2026, I don’t think anybody ever read them and I always felt like I was missing some kind of community.

Despite how connected the Internet is, if the only thing you do is buy a domain and host a blog on it, the odds that someone randomly finds your blog are low.

For me, finding the IndieWeb community was a game changer because I found other people to read. I could communicate with other bloggers over email or reply publicly to their posts on my own blog.

I have to give out a shout out to Rishi over at OneBerri, who was the first person to reply to one of my posts. I remember my heart skipping a beat when I saw an email from Rishi’s newsletter that started with “Antonio Santos said…” and my immediate thought was “oh no what did I say?”

Shortly after that, I discovered bubbles.town. To anyone that had to read Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You and the many replies it got, I’m sorry. I think RSS is great, but I enjoy seeing the different sites everyone spends time working on, that’s all. I don’t think I expressed that well. I wrote more on this in a Quick Log.

There’s other places that I’ve discovered part of the IndieWeb that are worth exploring, like PowRSS.com and for my fellow Spanish speakers BlogBlog.es.

I frequently browse the Kagi Small Web to find new blogs to follow. Its nice because it isn’t a list of posts like the other sites I mentioned. It only shows one random post at a time and I’ve discovered some nice gems on it.

I’d love to hear other’s stories about finding the IndieWeb, and whether or not their experience has been the same as mine. Feel free to publicly reply to this post or send me an email.