About

what is this?

Rewild the Web is a hand-curated directory of resources for the web rewilding movement - a loose collection of people who think the internet should be stranger, more personal, and more human.

We collect links to:

• Tools for building your own site without Big Platform dependency
• Communities of indie web builders
• Writing about reclaiming the web
• Protocols and standards for a more open internet
• Digital gardens, webrings, and personal sites worth reading

what is web rewilding?

The term borrows from ecological rewilding - the practice of restoring ecosystems by removing human management and letting nature reassert itself. Applied to the web, it's the idea that we should loosen the grip of platform capitalism and let the weird, personal, distributed web grow back.

It's related to:

• The IndieWeb movement
• The Small Web ethos
• Digital gardening