Decentralized Web Summit

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The Decentralized Web Summit was a conference organized by the Internet Archive that has had several IndieWeb sessions.

Upcoming Events

None, though you may be able to find some overlap in future DWeb Camp events.

Discussion

General discussion about the conference and related topics used to happen on the conference Slack team

• https://decentralizedweb.slack.com/ (seems pretty dead by 2026)

You used to be able to request an invitation by email using this form:

• https://decentralizedweb-slack-join.herokuapp.com/ — link died at some point in 2022
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20221123233355/https://decentralizedweb-slack-join.herokuapp.com/

More: https://web.archive.org/web/20221123233355/https://decentralizedweb.net/#join-the-conversation

• original site https://decentralizedweb.net/ went offline

Video

Streaming and videos of talks at the events are posted on

• https://web.archive.org/web/20181204032304/https://decentralizedweb.net/videos/

Past Events

Past Decentralized Web Summit events with direct links to IndieWeb sessions:

• 2018 Decentralized Web Summit
  • Tantek Çelik: IndieWeb. Taking back your content with practical decentralization steps
• 2016 Decentralized Web Summit
  • Kevin Marks: Lightning Talks & Panel – Peer to Peer Networks
  • Ryan Barrett: Lightning Talk: IndieWeb

Criticisms

• problematic ecological impacts, and thus clashing with fairly new community principle: https://blog.archive.org/2021/09/20/ecological-awareness-for-the-decentralized-web/

See Also

• Events
• dweb
• DWeb Camp
• https://www.internetarchive.eu/2026/07/17/lock-the-web-open-inside-dweb-camp-2026/