The author, writing from a personal domain, described adopting IndieWeb standards over several months and reported a positive experience with improved site usability and content ownership. IndieWeb originated in 2010 when Aaron Parecki and Tantek Çelik attended the Federated Social Web Summit in Portland and began promoting ownership of content, distributed connections and user control. The movement defines eleven principles that include owning data, publishing visible data and building tools for personal use. It also establishes technical standards that interoperate with other web protocols. The author implemented webmention for sending and receiving mentions, automated the sending process with a daily task and used the receiving side to collect references at the end of articles. h‑entry markup was added to each article and h‑card markup to the homepage, both verified with mf2py. rel‑me links were placed in the footer to connect the site to Mastodon, GitHub and Org Social, enabling green verification checkmarks. Micropub and IndieAuth were not implemented because the author publishes via git and markdown rather than an API endpoint. WebSub was evaluated and discarded due to the site’s 24‑hour content delay, which made real‑time updates unnecessary. The h‑feed standard was not adopted as it would generate ambiguous entries for parsers; RSS continues to serve feed functionality. A 2024 Pew Research study found that 38 % of web pages from 2013 were no longer accessible a decade later, highlighting the fragility of centralized silos. The IndieWeb wiki lists multiple silo failures, including the shutdown of GeoCities, MySpace, Google+, Posterous, FriendFeed, Vine, Yahoo Groups, TinyLetter and Cohost. Bridgy functions as a backfeed service that captures likes, replies and reposts from external platforms and sends them to the original post as webmentions. The author recommends a gradual approach, starting with a domain and adding standards step by step, while emphasizing durability and enjoyment. The author encourages others to begin with a domain, adopt standards incrementally and maintain control over their content. The IndieWeb community continues to develop specifications that interoperate with the Fediverse and RSS ecosystems.