Welcome to IndiePub

What is IndiePub?

IndiePub is an IndieWeb-focused Astro theme platform. It gives you:

• A unified entries model covering all IndieWeb post types: notes, articles, photos, bookmarks, replies, likes, reposts, checkins, and more
• First-class POSSE — syndicate to Bluesky, Mastodon, and the ATmosphere via standard.site lexicons
• ActivityPub federation — follow your site from Mastodon and other Fediverse clients
• Webmentions — send and receive
• Micropub — publish from any compatible client
• Newsletter support — email subscribers via Resend
• Self-hosted on Cloudflare — Pages + D1 + R2, no servers to manage

Themes

IndiePub ships three themes. All use the same @indiepub/astro integration and D1 schema — your content is never locked to a theme.

Theme	Best for	Writing experience
Default	Developers, IndieWeb enthusiasts	Admin panel (/admin)
Byline	Writers and bloggers	In-theme dashboard (/write) with TipTap rich text editor
Timeline	Social stream, micro-blogging	Admin panel; feed-forward layout inspired by social timelines

Architecture

IndiePub is a monorepo of focused packages consumed by an Astro theme:

@indiepub/astro       ← main integration (what your theme imports)
├── @indiepub/core        ← post types, feeds, Micropub
├── @indiepub/db          ← Drizzle schema for Cloudflare D1
├── @indiepub/webmentions ← send & receive webmentions
├── @indiepub/atproto     ← Bluesky + standard.site lexicons
├── @indiepub/activitypub ← Mastodon POSSE + ActivityPub federation
└── @indiepub/email       ← newsletter delivery via Resend

Licensing

IndiePub packages are licensed under FSL-1.1-ALv2 — source available now, Apache 2.0 after two years.

A license token is required to install @indiepub/* packages. Tokens are available at indiepub.dev in two tiers:

Tier	Use case
Personal	One non-commercial personal site
Commercial	Unlimited sites, commercial use

Themes are free and open-source. The token gates access to the packages — the IndieWeb protocol implementations, admin panel, and Cloudflare integration — which are where the ongoing development work lives.