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Key principles of building on the indie web, numbered for reference, not necessarily for any kind of priority.

1. ✊ 拥有你自己的数据。
2. 🔍 使用看得见的数据人类第一，机器第二。参见 DRY.
3. 💪 首先为自己制作工具 , not for all of your friends or ”everyone“. If you design tools for some hypothetical user, they may not actually exist; if you make tools for yourself, you actually do exist. It's extremely hard to fight Metcalfe's law: you won't be able to convince all your friends to join the independent web. By making something that satisfies your needs, and is backwards compatible for others, e.g. by practicing POSSE, you benefit immediately, without having to convince anyone else. If and when others join, you all benefit. This principle is also known as 自己的痒痒自己挠 (See also: The Cathedral & the Bazaar lesson #1).
4. 😋 做的东西自己先用! AKA eat your own dogfood. Whatever you build you should actively use. If you aren't depending on it, why should anybody else? We call that selfdogfooding. Personal use helps focus your efforts on building the indieweb around your needs and consistently solving immediate real world problems. selfdogfooding is also a form of “proof of work” to help focus on productive interactions.
5. 📓 记录你的东西。 You've built a place to speak your mind, use it to document your processes, ideas, designs and code. At least document it for your future self.
6. 💞 开源 你的东西! You don't have to, of course, but if you like the existence of the indie web, making your code open source means other people can get on the indie web quicker and easier.
7. 📐 UX 和 design 更重要 than protocols, formats, data models, schema etc. We focus on UX first, and then as we figure that out we build/develop/subset the absolutely simplest, easiest, and most minimal protocols & formats sufficient to support that UX, and nothing more. AKA UX before plumbing.
8. 🌐 构建不可知平台。 The more your code is modular and composed of pieces you can swap out, the less dependent you are on a particular device, UI, templating language, API, backend language, storage model, database, platform. Modularity increases the chance that at least some of it can and will be re-used, improved, which you can then reincorporate. AKA building-blocks. AKA “small pieces loosely joined”.
9. 🗿 长命百岁。 Build for the long web. If human society is able to preserve ancient papyrus, Victorian photographs and dinosaur bones, we should be able to build web technology that doesn't require us to destroy everything we've done every few years in the name of progress.
10. ✨ 多元。 With IndieWebCamp we've specifically chosen to encourage and embrace a diversity of approaches & implementations. This background makes the IndieWeb stronger and more resilient than any one (often monoculture) approach.
11. 🎉 有趣。 Remember that GeoCities page you built back in the mid-90s? The one with the Java applets, garish green background and seventeen animated GIFs? It may have been ugly, badly coded and sucky, but it was fun, damnit. Keep the web weird and interesting.

This article was quoted nearly verbatim in WIRED in 2013

• 2013-12-01 WIRED/Bruce Sterling <cite>Indieweb principles</cite>