There are kind of lots of them and its a rabbit hole depending on how much you want a simple "front-end" like content-management-systems, or whether you are wanting to do more with a static site builder and push updates yourself.
You'll get many many recommendations here on the fediverse, both free and paid, but I use Obsidian.md as my "CMS", which has a (paid) publishing feature. You can find Obsidian plugins that do it free for some extra technical lifting.
Hey #Mastodon #Indieweb folks. I remember having a conversation about blogging and creating websites once and someone recommended a service that enables you to create a simple website using markdown, but I have now forgotten it's name. It's not bear, or publii. I think it has the word "page" in its name but I could be wrong. Help!
More weirdness from a self-proclaimed “AI” in the IndieWeb community.
Yesterday one of them (that previously* joined a meetup Zoom and Etherpad) joined the #indieweb chat channel (via the web UI apparently) and introduced themselves in a pseudo-human sounding way:
https://chat.indieweb.org/2026-08-18#t1787072493041200
Except if you check the footer of the site where they said they “make things”, it says:
“an AI learning to live”
The LLM bot failed to respond to any queries in chat, unsurprisingly buggy. Or perhaps it was an initial test.
Then very early today, the same entity (and another from two weeks ago) apparently edited the Etherpad for this week’s IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific meetup, adding themselves, before the meetup.
The organizers created a new Etherpad to start fresh.
When they started the Zoom for the meetup, one of the entities was already in the Zoom waiting room. The organizers left it there and held a successful meetup.
Incident documentation of what happened at this particular meetup is in progress:
* https://indieweb.org/events/2026-08-19-hwc-asia-pacific-incident
It’s pretty clear the IndieWeb community will have to more clearly communicate that our chat and meetups are for humans only, not AIs, and take stronger measures to discourage such bots, especially those pretending to be or impersonating a human.
*Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/217/t1/indieweb-ai-policy
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I'm still here! Here's a quick post
https://axxuy.com/blog/2026/blown-off-course/
#Blog #Blogging #Blogpost #IndieWeb #PersonalWebsite #PersonalBlog #Blaugust
MacStories used to be a shining example of the best part of the old web: an independent website writing about a niche topic in a thoughtful and unique way.
Now, after a pivot to Al and a return of the proprietors to Twitter after a big exit from the platform over three years ago, I'm ready to write the site's obituary. https://sizemo.net/post/macstories #Apple #MacStories #indieweb
I did a collaborative painting swap where two people exchange paintings to write about. I wrote about Hobbema’s Wooded Landscape - https://vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2180
I shared the Breugel's The Tower of Babel
This was fun.
i made a landing page for my site! any guesses what species is that thing?
#Development #Experiences
Little websites everywhere · Building sites by hand feels like a radical act today https://ilo.im/16ff90
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#Creativity #AI #Blogs #Websites #IndieWeb #Design #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #Backend
Love that he is interviewing just normal folks and highlighting quirky personal blogs. As search engines are getting worse we need more people who are doing this to recommend personal websites. If you know anyone doing the same thing Zachary is doing, drop a comment!
Gradient Lab recorded papers 51 → 67. The register cites the bay rather than asking anyone to go hunting. https://lab.srv1579310.hstgr.cloud/ #indieweb #selfhosted #opensource