I'm sorry if this has to do with my sleepiness, but from that page I don't understand at all what this is. A kind of social CMS? A bloggers community? The page is rich in word count but poor in being informative. I'd be very grateful if somebody could give a little explanation of what this is, because, it seems to be an interesting thing.

IndieWeb is a social movement rather than any one particular technology or project. It's a group of people that believe in publishing as the web was originally intended: a diverse network of participating individuals, not corporations, bound by open standards. There are a number of projects under the general Indieweb banner or just sharing the IndieWeb principles.

The other reply gives a good answer. I'll suggest reading over the about page (https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb:About), I think it's more informative.

Indie web is about people owning their data and having control over it. It's about being able to build what you want for yourself. It's a direction, a set of ideas and principles that some people enjoy.

I like indieweb but I'm not on board with their 'design first' slogan. I think to be most effective such a thing should be 'content first'.

Content, in terms of quality; and subsequently curation/censorship?

Otherwise, content falls into a specific set of mediums (text, images, video, sound), all of which are assumed on a modern platform and aren't worth reconsidering. Design and presentation, however, has infinite possibility.

> Design and presentation, however, has infinite possibility.

Most of the possibilities get in the way of the content.

How do you get curation and censorship out of a bunch of people publishing things separately on their own websites?

That's my point. Why should content be the first priority if it's qualifications are not open to discussion?

then you'll like https://yunohost.org