How Do You Define "Indie"?

[Turkish]

ikki5 said:
Indie - 65% shovelware, 30% - decent/good games, 5% - The Gems we've been looking for.

It's rather 95% shovelware, 4% good games, 1% masterpieces

You should just see the amount of bad indies coming out on pc that fly under everyone's radar, you can occassionally stumble upon them on steam sales.