Special Edition
Meetup

Looking Back on One Year of IndieWebClub Bangalore Ankur Sethi

We started IndieWebClub Bangalore a year ago, and since then we have been through many discussions, demos, and writing sessions. This talk tries to summarize what we did and propose where we are going.

Art and Tech Is in Community, Not in the 3-Column Grid and Vertical Scroll Santrupti P

Break away and be weird. People are incohesive, and so is what they have to say and their online presence.

What Would IndieWeb-native Music Playlists Look Like? Abhinav Tushar

Our playlists are strongly tied to big-music platforms, and the raw materials available for making platform-agnostic playlists are not common. In this talk Abhinav will talk about the properties and ecosystem of an IndieWeb compatible playlist format, and cover their solution, mbzlists.com, its current state, problems, and the future.

Building a Home on the Web, Forgetting to Live in It Arpit

Arpit will share how building a dream website turned into an addictive loop of endless improvement, what it feels like to be both the user and overworked builder of tools, and how he is struggling to find a healthy balance between making the web and inhabiting it.

The Feedback Loop of Being Gautham Ravi Varma

Gautham will talk about the circular relation between humans and Information. This talk covers how information functions as a cognitive process in humans, the role and potential hazards of technology in reducing humans to a utility function, and how we can negate and navigate these dangers which are becoming more glaringly obvious.

Break

Photo-graph-ie: Art of Turning Photos into Graphs Rasagy Sharma

To share photos today, you must pick an existing format. Rasagy will showcase unique experiments to turn photos into graphs and data, highlighting how IndieWeb gives us an opportunity to break out of the monotony. He will share examples and ways to create such experiences on your own.

How to Sound More like Yourself When You Write Sagrika Padha

This talk is for everyday writers. Sagrika’s talk draws from an ongoing process of understanding what feels natural and authentic. They will explore what “voice” in writing actually means, how it develops, and share practical tips to help people recognize patterns in their own writing and sound more like themselves.

Owning Conversations on the Open Web Yash Garg

What if websites could talk to each other without depending on social media platforms? In this talk, Yash will show how to run a Webmentions server for conversations across the web!

The Late Bird(?): Joining the Blogging Era in the 2020s Abhigyan Tripathi

Abhigyan will navigate through GenZ’s thoughts and feelings about the IndieWeb, covering ways for IndieBabies to start out with their personal writing journey, and ways for IndieVeterans to create a comfy space. He will try to answer: “Am I the Late Bird? Or could I be at the start of a new age?”.

Confessions of a Recovering Social Media Star in the IndieWeb Shruti Sunderraman

A Legally Blonde-themed analysis of what social media does to your agency on the internet. Shruti will cover lessons from attaching self-worth to social media, and the case for blogging as the way to find your way back to your true authentic words on the internet.

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Techno-feudalism and the Fall of Civilisation Chitin Mitta

This talk dissects enshittification and the structural collapse of software capability. But mostly, it is about how to actually opt out. True digital sovereignty isn't about migrating to a different corporate landlord. It is about owning the bare metal, self-hosting infrastructure, and walking away from the bloated systems.

Optimistic Futures for the IndieWeb Nimisha Vijay

The IndieWeb is often surrounded by doom and gloom as an antithesis to social media. Nimisha wants us to think together about how great the IndieWeb could be going forward, and how we can make the IndieWeb great for everyone, focusing on creating a community, creative expression, privacy and more.

Wrap-up Tanvi Bhakta

Celebration and Socializing