The IndieWeb Atlas
Welcome!
The IndieWeb Atlas is a personal project begun in 2025 to create an easy way to find and record the numerous little treasures hidden around the internet, outside the cage of social media websites and the ever-growing sense of the Dead Internet that pervades them. There are countless useful, interesting, strange, and funny websites out there, made by everyday people around the world; the IndieWeb Atlas seeks to be the map that helps you find them.
The Ur-Link: Wikipedia
At time of writing, Wikipedia has proven that the early visions of the internet were correct. A highly-collaborative project, founded on kindness and curiosity, maintained by passion - a darling of internet-users today, beloved by millions despite early skepticism and a devious amount of anti-wiki propaganda over the years. You might think that Wikipedia is held here on a pedestal as example of what the internet could have been before greed sent it all to hell. It's not. Wikipedia is upheld here for the messy exemplar of human passion and connection that it is, yes, but also as an icon of an internet that still exists.
The internet was not destroyed by greed. The attention of internet-users was caged into a handful of websites, websites who propped themselves up falsely as all there was to the internet until the rest of us acted like they were right. Greed fueled that digital oligarchy, who reeled us in with promises of views to humanity's favorite subject - itself - before turning every "social platform" into a slot machine for ad revenue, damn the consequences. That was their gambit to get us to stay, but it was also the hallway to the exit. More and more of us have turned away from "social" platforms to see a world - both digital and real - that still exists; in disrepair from years of neglect, but still there, waiting. The internet was always there, outside the cave of Meta and Reddit and all the rest.
Long live the living internet.
Q&A
Why Do Some Websites Appear in More Than One Section?
We divide websites into categories based on common themes between the sites we find. Sometimes a single website will fall into more than one category! Rather than making a guess as to which category it fits "better", we just put it in both. We figure that makes it easier for you to find.
What if I Find a Problem with a Link?
If you discover an issue, such as a dead link (a link that takes you to an error page), a misdirected link (the link takes you to the wrong page), an attempted malware attack, or other concern, please email us at indiewebatlas@gmail.com. When submitting a concern, please be sure to include the name of the website, the page on which you found the link, and a description of the problem you experienced. Screenshots are even better.
My Website is on Here and I Would Like It Removed
Not a problem. Email us at indiewebatlas@gmail.com - provide us some proof that you own the website (some folks on the internet can be malicious liars, after all) and we will happily honor your request to remove your website as soon as we confirm it is yours.
Guidelines for Submitting a Website
If you know a website you think should be featured on the Atlas, please send an email to indiewebatlas@gmail.com. Be sure to include "Website Submission" in the subject line. Please also include a website name and description. Do not just send a link. I am unlikely to click a link from an email (I'll go searching for the site myself), but I definitely will not click a lone link in an otherwise empty email body.
A few guidelines for sites: We do not accept purely personal sites, like blogs - it must contain some utility, tool, archive, or other non-autobiographical purpose; the site cannot be a social media account or channel; nothing even tangentially using LLMs and generative AI images (ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, etc.) are allowed and such sites will be removed if discovered. Otherwise, go wild!
As this is a personal project, I get final say in what ends up in the Atlas. In the future, a collaborative, wiki-style system may become appropriate. But for now, it's just me!
Why do some parts of the atlas refer to "we" or "us," but others refer to "I?"
Er, uh... it's the royal "we?"
How Can I Support the Atlas?
Use it! Bookmark it, follow it, whatever! Go enjoy the links I've curated! Let me know which ones you like! Find new ones you think I should add and submit them! Send me ideas to improve the site! Have fun on the internet! Have fun off the internet! : )
My Other Projects
Firefly Lanterns: A collection of digital collages I've done, including Frutiger Aero and less easily-described things.
A Future Worth Promising: My blog and personal site (currently under construction).
Site News
10/7/25 -- Split nature into 3 subsections (flora & fauna, astro, weather). Adding contents to the top of each page that have subsections. Update: Ignore that, the nature and science sections have been rolled together due to the fact that pretty much everything in "nature" was also in "science." There is now a single "nature & science" page.
10/6/25 -- Added "DIY" subsection to the "anticonsumer" section. It's easily (and unintentionally) become the largest section on the site, followed by "digital museums." It's honestly funny to me that the education section is quickly becoming one of the smaller sections, given that education resources were originally what I intended to compile!
10/4/25 -- Made subcategories within the "sounds" section. Changed a little code on all sections with subcategories. Thinking about fiddling with the colors, at least for those sections. Updated anticonsumer section and others.
10/3/25 -- Added link to my blog.
10/2/25 -- Made subcategories within the anticonsumer section and the museum section for better ease of reference.
10/1/25 -- Updated anticonsumer section.
9/26/25 -- Updated museums and directories with some other things I found around neocities. Thank you to those who have been taking an interest in the site lately! It means a lot to me : )
9/25/25 -- Fixed a typo on the index page. Added "The Small Web is Beautiful" to the further reading section.
9/24/25 -- Updated anticonsumer, museums, cams, and utilities with new links. Considered making a blog or if I should just dust off tumblr again.
9/23/25 -- Rolled the "weather" links into the "nature" section and deleted the "weather" section. Added a "randomized site-finder" category to the "other directories" section, which consists of Cloudhiker and The Forest. Created a "Site News" section.