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Comment by emrah | Hacker News Reader

I love the concept, but it is not obvious how to join so I'm afraid it'll likely fail or won't grow much :-(

"Get Started Now" information should be on the homepage (not behind a click) and it should be dead simple, not require any digging.

Or perhaps I didn't actually get the concept

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It's a very informal organisation - you are part of the indieweb if you have your own site. If you want to talk about it, there's https://chat.indieweb.org/ (which bridges to IRC, Matrix and Slack). You can sign into the wiki with your own website, and add yourself to the list of people here https://indieweb.org/chat-names

Same. I was intrigued and wanted to start exploring the sites that make up this “indie web”, but the landing page doesn’t list them. Clicked on “Getting Started Now” which took me to a busy looking wiki page talking about Wordpress? Confused, I left.

> or won't grow much

I don't understand this idea that everything has to grow. Who cares if it grows or not, as long as the people who use it enjoy it?

Imo the issue is not that this ambiguity prevents growth, but more that it contradicts the principles described here. If you have a community that strives to be different than siloed monocultures, then it's important to make participation in the community easier for outsiders, and to make it's ideas accessible to people from different backgrounds.

I have a website that would qualify as an Indie website. I have tried several times to 'add it to the indieweb database' in one way or another but I have never really understood what your were supposed to do or if you could do such a thing.

If your website could also qualify as geeky, join my webring at.. drumroll geekring dot net :)

Update: I see you did, welcome! :)

For some reason, it's buried. I had to click over to the news, and then I found it in the nav bar there.

https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started

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