videos about the indieweb

📺 Videos about the indieweb are a great way to get a quick visual introduction to what is the Indie Web, why we need it, and how you can make a difference for yourself, and others.

• For how to post video on the IndieWeb, see the video post page.

Featured videos

• 👨‍🎤 Take Back Your Web (31:57) - Tantek Çelik at Beyond Tellerrand 2019
• 🎴 IndieWeb Why, How, and More (5:02) - Animated drawing introduction to the IndieWeb
• ⚖️ Why We Need the #IndieWeb (13:15) Keynote at Personal Democracy Forum 2014

Find more videos about the indieweb:

• IndieWebCamp Internet Archive account
• IndieWebCamp YouTube Channel
• YouTube indieweb search
• Live Videos of Previous IndieWebCamps on Google+ (Defunct now that Google+ is gone)

Recent videos about the indieweb (in reverse chronological order by date of when video was recorded)

2024

• 2024-05-09 Henry Desroches: ▶️ Digital Frontiers, IndieWeb Cowboys, and A Place Online To Call Your Own (YouTube, ~11-12min, starting at time offset 8523s of the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good)

2023

• 2023-01-15 capjamesg ▶️ Decentralized Website Communication with Webmention for Codementor

2022

• 2022-03-15 ▶️ You Should Check Out the Indie Web (YouTube, 12:52, starting at time offset 276s, skipping the NFT/web3 disillusionment gateway)

2021

• 2021-04-12   Jamie Tanna ▶️ The IndieWeb Movement: Owning Your Data and Being the Change You Want to See in the Web
• 2021-02-08 Heydon Pickering: ▶️ Why The IndieWeb (7:54). ▶️ Reposted to YouTube 2022-03-29
• 2021-01-06 David Wolfpaw and Allie Nimmons ▶️ The IndieWeb WP AMA #16

2020

• 2020-09-22 Aaron Parecki ActivityPub and OAuth 2.1 at ActivityPub Conference
• 2020-08-27 ▶️ Implement Indieweb on Drupal website (YouTube, 5:41) — explains using your site to get responses from Twitter, social readers, and more.

2019

• 2019-10-17 Zach Leatherman ▶️ Own your content on Social Media using the IndieWeb at JAMstack_conf_sf 2019

• 2019-05-14 Tantek Çelik ▶️ Take Back Your Web at Beyond Tellerrand 2019

• 2019-04-26 Chris Aldrich ▶️ Micropub and WordPress: Custom Posting Applications at WordCamp Riverside 2019

• 2019-04-03 David Wolfpaw ▶️ WordPress and the IndieWeb – Why You Should Own Your Voice on WordPress.tv from WordCamp Greenville, South Carolina 2019

2018

• 2018-12-10 Aaron Parecki ▶️ IndieAuth: OAuth for the Open Web at W3C Strong Authentication and Identity Workshop
• 2018-11-24 Kristof De Jaeger ▶️ Being social on the IndieWeb (Drupal Camp Ghent 2018)
• 2018-11-19 Jeremy Keith ▶️ Taking Back The Web (Opening Keynote) at Voxxed Thessaloniki 2018
• 2018-11-03 Chris Aldrich ▶️ The Web is My Social Network at WordCamp Riverside 2018 (slides)
• 2018-08-02 Tantek Çelik ▶️ IndieWeb. Taking back your content with practical decentralization steps at Decentralized Web Summit 2018.
  • Notes: dweb2018
• 2018-07-31 Aaron Parecki ▶️ What it means to have control over your own online content (2:06, Twitter, from IndieWebSummit 2018, published by name.com)
• 2018-07-23 Aaron Parecki ▶️ Own your online content with IndieWeb (2:06, YouTube, published by Name.com)
• 2018-06-27 Jeremy Keith ▶️ The Building Blocks Of The Indie Web at Design 4 Drupal, Boston
• 2018-06-25 Tantek Çelik ▶️ Tantek Çelik interview by Jared from name.com (the night before IndieWeb Summit 2018)
• 2018-06-09 Stephen Rushe ▶️ Playing with the Indieweb at NIDevConf 2018.
• 2018-05-01 Chris Aldrich A pencast overview (with audio and recorded visual diagrams) of IndieWeb technologies
• 2018-04-27 Chris Aldrich Setting up WordPress for IndieWeb Use
• 2018-02-14 Jeremy Keith ▶️ Taking Back The Web at Webstock ‘18 with associated presentation slides (Building Blocks of the Indie Web)
• 2018-01-24 Stacey DePolo ▶️ 1 Million Webmention Party at Homebrew Website Club

2017

• 2017-10-27 Jeremy Keith ▶️ Building Blocks of the Indie Web at View Source London
• 2017-09-21 Keith J. Grant The Decentralized Social Web at Connect.Tech 2017 in Atlanta
• 2017-05-30 Aaron Parecki ▶️ What is the IndieWeb? at DonutJS PDX
• 2017-05-22 Joschi Kuphal ▶️ #NUEWW - Indiewebcamp 2017: Interview mit Joschi Kuphal (Deutsch)

2016

• 2016-06-09 Ryan Barrett: IndieWebCamp at Decentralized Web Summit 2016 (▶️ video, slides)
• 2016-06-05 ▶️ IndieWeb Summit 2016 Demos
• 2016-06-04 Ben Werdmüller & Aaron Parecki: ▶️ Cutting Edge Indieweb - IndieWeb Summit 2016
• 2016-06-04 Tantek Çelik: ▶️ State of the IndieWeb - IndieWeb Summit 2016
• 2016-04-26 Shane Becker: #indieweb lunch time lightning tech talk

2015

• 2015-07-14 SWAT0 demo
• 2015-04-17  Barry Frost: Why we need the Indieweb presented to Barry's globaldev team as a Tech Talk.
• 2015-03-07 윤석찬- 인디웹(IndieWeb)과 워드프레스(Wordpress) (Korean) slides
• 2015-02-11 Welcome to the IndieWeb at Edinburgh Techmeetup by Amy Guy.

2014

• 2014-12-05 ▶️ Connecting to the IndieWeb Movement (YouTube): Jim Groom chats with Mikhail Gershovich, Ben Werdmüller, Erin Jo Richey, and Simon Thomson about the IndieWeb movement as it dovetails with A Domain of One's Own and the education space as part of the finale of Connected Courses.
• 2014-09-10 ▶️ TWiG: The Indie Web: with Erin Jo Richey, Ben Werdmüller, and Kevin Marks about their work with Known and the IndieWeb in general.
• 2014-07-18 Gar & Issac Lewis, ▶️ It's clever NOT to be clever & How to "indie" all your tech (Vimeo, 26:59)
• 2014-07-04 Jeremy Keith: On Indie Web (ind.ie, 5:51) at ITS.
• 2014-06-25 Kevin Marks: ▶️ Procrustes and computers an Ignite talk at Google IO on principles
• 2014-06-24 Aaron Parecki: ▶️ OAuth, IndieAuth, and the Future of Authorization APIs (YouTube, 43:26, HTML slides available) at Open Source Bridge 2014
• 2014-06-04 Tantek Çelik: ▶️ Why We Need the #IndieWeb (YouTube, 13:15, HTML slides available) at #PDF14.
• 2014-05-02 Tantek Çelik: ▶️ The Once and Future IndieWeb (YouTube, 41:49, HTML slides available, Etherpad collaborative notes) at #wdc14. Published 2014-08-13.
• 2014-03-19 Willow sketch explanation of principles, why, silos: ▶️ Indie Web (YouTube, 5:02)
• 2014-03-07 ▶️ IndieWeb Ad - SquareSpace Ad Parody
• 2014-02-07 Amber Case: ▶️ Designing for privacy in mobile and web apps (Vimeo, 35:44) at IxDA14 session.
• 2014-01-13 Amber Case: ▶️ Rise of the Indieweb (YouTube, 44:59) at a New Relic FutureTalks event.

2013

• 2013-12-12 Kevin Marks talk at LeWeb: ▶️ The Web We Found (21:09s on YouTube; slides available in HTML)
• 2013-12-08 (audio only) Kevin Marks: A healthy digital ecology (28:21s mp3 audio starting at 10:50s, transcript)
• 2013-12-03 Jean-Sébastien Mansart: Qu’est-ce qui vous passionne dans le web? (▶️ 10:17s Youtube)
• 2013-10-19 Amber Case: ▶️ The Open Web and the Opportunity of Now (29:24s. RealtimeConf 2013, Portland, OR. slides)
• 2013-09-27 Ben Werdmüller: ▶️ Idno at Personal Cloud Community Gathering 5 - Sept 2013 (8:04s YouTube)
• 2013-09-27 Tantek Çelik: ▶️ Indie Web Principles at Personal Cloud Community Gathering 5 - Sept 2013 (5:08s YouTube)
• 2013-09-16 (audio only) Jeremy Keith: The Web Ahead - The Nature of the Web with Jeremy Keith (105 min mp3 audio)
• 2013-08-23 Augustin Bralley (2013 participant) : Jailbreaking The Internet (34:20s)
• 2013-06-19 Tantek Çelik and Brett Slatkin: ▶️ The Independent Web & IndieWebCamp (19:29s YouTube)
• 2013-06-13 Ben Werdmüller: ▶️ IndieWeb comments, likes and events (6:45s YouTube)
• 2013-05-27 Jeremy Keith: Beyond Tellerrand (45:47s YouTube)
• 2013-04-13 Anil Dash: The Web We Lost Presentation at Harvard's Berkman Center (1:10:54 YouTube)
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See Also

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• posts about the indieweb
• podcasts about the indieweb
• Related: cartoon criticizing social media and advocating for the "personal web": ▶ The Web has lost its Soul - LOVEWEB
• Related: video showing diversity of the old web in contrast to homogeneity of social media: ▶ Old Websites Were Cooler, Actually