How did you discover the IndieWeb?

I’m grateful for the IndieWeb community. I feel as if I’ve found my online tribe here. I think I first discovered the IndieWeb somewhere around June 2026. I’ve had blogs way before that, but until the beginning of 2026, I don’t think anybody ever read them and I always felt like I was missing some kind of community. Despite how connected the Internet is, if the only thing you do is buy a domain and host a blog on it, the odds that someone randomly finds your blog are low. For me, finding the IndieWeb community was a game changer because I found other people to read. I could communicate with other bloggers over email or reply publicly to their posts on my own blog. I have to give out a shout out to Rishi over at OneBerri, who was the first person to reply to one of my posts. I remember my heart skipping a beat when I saw an email from Rishi’s newsletter that started with “Antonio Santos said…” and my immediate thought was “oh no what did I say?” Shortly after that, I discovered…