Bookmarks tagged "indieweb"
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#11: fLaMEd Fury (flamedfury.com) - Wonders of Web Weaving
So, I did a podcast. James had me on his podcast to talk about my corner of the web. We got into gaming and TV communities, music, and why the indie web is worth it.
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What should a personal website be?
Ratfactor asks about what a website should be. A reflection of yourself, not some idea of what a website is meant to be.
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List of things I love seeing in personal webspaces
A non-exhaustive list of things Folkmoss love seeing in blogs/personal websites.
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The Overthinkers Guide to rekindle your Blogging Mojo
Maybe some inspiration for some of you to start writing again. Sometimes I just cbf writing, lol
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Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
Great read.
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Netizen
Contributing to the internet for the good of it, not for profit. Now I'm wondering what my netizen contributions will be...
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The Web Won Because It Got Easier
Worth a read for anyone pushing the indie web. Knowing how it all works doesn't make it easy for the next person.
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Websites Are Not Going to Die
If Google stops linking to websites, it stops being a search engine. Another good reminder to keep the personal website going while corp search eats itself.
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Pseudonym as an escape
I've written about this previously. The pseudonym isn't hiding; it's breathing room. Been enjoying not being my IRL name online since 96.
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don't let Web nostalgia obscure a positive Web future
This has always been something I'm an advocate for. Draw inspiration from the 90s/2000s web, but don't rely on old and outdated hacks. Take advantage of the capabilities we have today, but don't go overboard with modern bloat.
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Your Metablogging is Lame as Hell – Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog
Lol, kinda nodding my head here. Blogging about Bear Blog blogs is becoming a bit of a thing, isn't it?
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Rant about blogs and the IndieWeb - Dom Corriveau
Okay, this one had me in tears. Such a good read.
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Blogger Archetype Quiz
A cheeky wee quiz that sorts you into a blogging archetype. I came out as a link curator. What'd you get?
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Newsonaut: Turning inner space into outer space
Linking out is the cheapest way to keep the indie web alive
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re: Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts? – An Almost Anonymous Blog
Good pushback on the title advice: weekly recaps and the like are easy to skip, and a decent way to find new bloggers.
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Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts? | Michael Harley
Fair point that vague titles like "Recent Thoughts" sink in a feed when nobody can tell what they're about.
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The Boring Internet | Terry Godier
The open internet isn't dying, just the commercial crust glued on top of it
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Wander Console Network
Wander is a small, decentralised, self-hosted web console that lets visitors explore websites and pages recommended by a community of independent personal site owners. Like webrings reborn, self-hosted consoles recommending each other instead of letting an algorithm decide what you find.
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People and Blogs - fLaMEd 🔥
My People and Blogs chat on web ownership, 25 years of fLaMEd fury, and why I'm still here
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The Blogger’s Manifesto
Eight principles for blogging that go against the "build an audience" playbook. Staying small and honest is the point.
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Why I Still Like the Internet
Gordon on how blogs are quietly winning again
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Join the Inclusive Front
Sara Joy's manifesto for web folks who reckon building inclusively is just doing the job properly
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the web as a space to be explored · roytang.net
The web isn't dying. Roy Tang reckons the indie web is still alive and explorable
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A Secret Web
The indie web isn't secret, just hidden by commercial search. Benjamin Hollon on the tools we already have to find it.
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How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should
Algorithmic scrolling killed surfing, but David Cain reckons the old web is still there if you go looking.
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Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators
Is curation the personal web's superpower now that half the web is AI-generated, or has it always been? :)
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Have a Fucking Website
"The internet was built on websites that linked to one another", don't rent your space inside the walled gardens.
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Who knows that you blog?
That weird gap between blogging publicly and never bringing it up with people you actually know
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Joyful web design
Treating playfulness on the web as the point, not a frivolous extra you tack on later.
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Ctrl-ZINE Issue.24
Stoked my flossing piece landed in this one alongside ~loghead's proper smol web rallying cry — issue 24 is a good one.
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The conditionally open web
Cory puts into words something I keep circling back to. The open web was never really open, just conditionally so.
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Prepping for the endgame of the open web - The History of the Web
Jay's been thinking about this longer than most. The open web has survived worse, but it still needs us to show up.
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Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash
Anil Dash wonders if 2026 is the last year we have a chance to put a stop on the dismantling of the open web.
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How to feel at home on the Internet - by Jatan Mehta
Is having your own domain really the only way to truely "own" your online space?
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Building the Good Web · brennan.day
makes the case that building for users instead of against them is what separates the good web from everything else.
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Oceania Web Atlas | Zachary Kai
Zachary Kai collects personal websites from across Oceania into one tidy, human-scaled directory.
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Scroll trīgintā ūnus
Shellsharks shares the latest edition of scrolls, posting online without overthinking
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Phoenix's Web Corner! - The Rise of Sanityware
Shubham talks about where they stand with the web in 2026, writing about independence, ownership, and what he wants his site to be moving forward.
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The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation - Stephanie Stimac's Blog
Reflections on how we’ve lost the habit of curating what we read and share, and why intentional curation made the web feel more personal. I hope my bookmarks help make the web feel more personal :)
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The IndieWeb and Small web
What’s the overlap between the IndieWeb and the small web?
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Some Thoughts on the Open Web
Reflections on what the open web actually means today
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The lines that draw us together
Reflections on the invisible lines that connect us through writing, linking and sharing ideas across personal websites
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SSI (Server-Side Includes) - nekoweb.org
Nekoweb introduces SSI for static sites on their platform. Huge news for static site lovers. I could drop in a version of flamedfury.com from 1999 and it would render on Nekoweb. What a time to be alive
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Understanding blogs – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Tracey Durnell breaks down what personal blogs are.
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Experiences with social medias
Zhongvie reflects on writing and publishing on a personal site, focusing on keeping things simple and resisting the pressure to optimise or perform for platforms.
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Self-hosting versus lots of small indieweb providers
This Day’s Portion questions whether “Indie” automatically means self-hosting, arguing that intent, control, and how you relate to the web matter more than the specific technical setup.
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Looking beyond collective blogging • V.H. Belvadi
V.H. Belvadi writes about blogging as a shared practice, where writing alongside others creates momentum, connection, and a sense of community.
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Readers, writers and blogging ethics
This Day’s Portion on writing plainly and honestly online, even if it makes people uncomfortable, instead of softening ideas to please imagined audiences.
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How and Why Do I Blog?
MKUltra.Monster reflects on how “how to blog” advice often overcomplicates things, arguing that blogging works best when you just start writing and figure it out as you go.
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Building an IndieWeb house (I): introduction
An introduction to the IndieWeb from Coffee Now, explaining what drew them to it and why owning a small, independent site feels worthwhile
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The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to 'Take Off' - Susam Pal
The IndieWeb doesn’t need mass adoption to succeed, it’s value lies in serving the people who actively choose it.
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Static sites killed the blog comment star, but maybe old tech and a smaller web can resurrect them
This Day’s Portion argues that the move to static sites didn’t just simplify publishing, but quietly stripped away comment sections and the everyday conversations that once lived on personal blogs.
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An Island in the Net in 2030? - Island in the Net
Island in the Net shares their thoughts on what the IndieWeb could look like in 2030, focusing on sustainability, human connection, and keeping personal sites relevant as the web continues to shift.
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Drinking The Largest Beer At The Airport Makes Everything Better
I never say no to an airport beer - no matter the cost
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30 Years of
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Three Predictions For The Web
Caffeine and Lasers shares three predictions about the future of the web as part of this month’s IndieWeb Carnival.
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IndieWeb Carnival December 2025 – The IndieWeb in 2030 – The Frugal Blog
The Frugal Gamer shares their thoughts on the future of the IndieWeb as part of this month’s IndieWeb Carnival
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Why RSS matters
Ben Werd explains why RSS still matters as a simple, open way to follow content without relying on algorithms or platform lock in.
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Small Web, Big Voice
Afranca writes about how the small web still carries real weight, showing that personal sites and hand-built spaces can have a bigger impact than their size suggests.
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Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
Disassociated writes about the return of personal blogs and why niche blogs might be the next wave as people move away from algorithmic platforms.
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Early web memories - roundup post
Winther rounds up early web memories from the recent Bear Blog Carnival - gutted I missed this as it was happening!
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Who's a blog for?
obb thinks through who a blog is really for and why writing for yourself remains the most sustainable approach.
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In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
rkert writes about why syndication still matters and how sharing content across the open web helps sites stay connected.
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I ❤ shortcuts #3: read a random blog post
Hyde shares a neat script to help randomly surf the independent web.
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Should Your Indieweb Site Be Mobile Friendly?
MKUltra.Monster experiments with making old-web design mobile-friendly without losing its classic feel.
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Steps Towards a Web without The Internet
AJ Roach imagines a web that could exist without the internet, built from small, local networks instead of centralised infrastructure.
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My first months in cyberspace
Phil Gyford remembers the excitement and optimism of being online in 1995.
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The psychological cost of having an RSS feed
Filip explores the anxiety that comes with writing a blog knowing it has an RSS feed.
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Contacting the small web
Bojidar reflects on finding real connection through the small web.
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Visitor stats and the point of blogging
Underlap writes about blogging for connection instead of traffic.
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Adactio: Journal—Responses
Jeremy Keith finds joy in replies written on someone’s own website.
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the internet's too fast
Has the pace of the internet become so fast that it’s overwhelming?
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RSS: A Well Formed Log Entry - The History of the Web
The History of the Web revisits how RSS became a cornerstone of the open internet.
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Be a Good Link
David A. Kennedy reminds us to “be a good link” and strengthen the open web.
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Publishing personal content online while hiding yourself is a flawed but rational response to a broken internet
This Day’s Portion wrestles with the tension between privacy and openness online.
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Blogging psuedo-anonymously
Mattyblog writes about blogging under a pseudonym and the freedom it offers.
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RSS - Jayeless.net
Another RSS post! Jayeless explains what RSS is and how it helps you follow sites without algorithms.
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Sanding off friction from indie web connection – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Tracy Durnell looks at how indie web tools can be made easier to use, lowering the barriers for people to connect through their own websites.
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bstn - RSS manifesto
BSTN argues for a return to open web standards and RSS-based curation.
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Personal blogs are the best, I love yours and I’ll try and tell you why - Nothing Original Here
Nothing Original Here writes about why personal blogs still matter more than social media.
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The Internet Feels Broken | Stephanie Vee
Steph Vee reflects on how the internet feels broken and why we should reclaim it through personal websites.
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The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)
Shame it’s on Substack. New Public explores the revival of the handmade web pushing back against the corporate internet.
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Just Put It On Your Blog
Shellsharks urges us to stop overthinking and just post on our own blogs.
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Why you should get (back) into RSS curation.
Another take on rediscovering RSS as a way to take control of what you read online, curating a personal, intentional feed instead of relying on algorithm-driven platforms
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Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Molly White wants us to escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
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Bringing Back the Blogroll
Luke wonders about the Blogroll and ends up slapping it on the homepage sidebar after some inspiration
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Breaking Free from Social Media Silos
Luke discovers the indie web and discusses the struggle of being out of touch when it seems like most of society exists on facebook rather than the web.
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blog comments - Jayeless.net
Once upon a time, pretty much everyone who had a blog accepted comments on that blog
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Why I love to read your blog - Sylvia's Noodling Nook
Sylvia shares all the reasons why they like reading your website 🫶
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Why I Blog
OrbitalMartian shares why they blog. So, why do you blog?
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Seeing A Different Web
Matt’s post talks about how the return to the "small web" or "IndieWeb" has allowed new surfers to recapture the original sense of community and direct interaction of the early days of the web, before social media and the five websites.
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Writing HTML, Writing the Web, Righting the Web
cogdog reflects on their early days on the web, starting in 1993, and their passion for HTML, a foundation of the web.
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The Indie Web Has Got Me Down - ReadBeanIceCream
After six months on their indie web journye, RedBeanIcecream is feeling a bit down.... Down to write more!
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The Search For My First Website
TribesmanJohn goes searching for their original website
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Shittification of the Internet
Thoughts and commentary on how the internet is getting shitter and why 2000s were the best years of the internet.
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In Search of the Lost Web | maraoz
A nice look into the decline of the web from the perspective of guitar chord websites.
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The Web is Fantastic Actually, Sightless Scribbles
Robert Kingett explores whether its popular to hate the Internet right now? But is that a fair assessment where your experience of the Internet is limited to five websites/apps and haven't taken the explore the often less travelled parts?
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FABLED.DAY — choosing a sobriquet
Clarity takes a look at what it takes to choose an online handle
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Homestead the Web · Caolan
Rather than co-opting social media design, Caolan reminds us that we don't need to mimick when we already have all the control and freedom we need with our own websites.
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You Can Make A Website
Coyote has put together a comprehensive guide aimed at demystifying the process of creating a personal website for beginners. Filled with useful tips and links to other resources across the indie web.
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Enough With The Bullshit
Aren’t you tired of all the bullshit? Because BEEW is!
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Making Space for a Handmade Web | Figma Blog
What if instead, there were millions of websites, each one handmade by a single person?
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Building a Website Fit for 1999
Wes has built a retro website, with retro like hosting. What a fun project.
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Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump
Brad talks about the concept of a "brain dump" as a more approachable way to share personal experiences and thoughts without the pressures associated with traditional blogging.
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A Dream for the Web
Static Made has dream of a web that's small and strange and wonderful
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A Blog Is Freedom
We all need a bit more freedom across the web
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My happy space in the web
This website is my happy space in the web.
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lmno.lol
Wholesome blogs minus the yucky bits of the modern web
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In the Beginning.. - JanerationX
JanerationX provides a personal recount of their first forray into the web, making a website and starting to blog
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April Cools' Club
A fun project to do something useful and different on April 1st each year.
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Why we are still using 88x31 buttons - ultrasciencelabs
Another look at the enduring popularity of 88x31 buttons we continue to put on our websites
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smallweb
smallweb is a carefully curated collection of neat indie websites that get less attention than they deserve.
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Tension
Axxuy hates ads on websites and realises they're not going away
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Your Site Is a Home
Your site is a home.
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nevermonetize
nevermonetize is a resource for indie webmasters to use on their websites to let other web surfers know that they never intend to monetize their website or project.
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A Brief History of DeviantART Stamps | Ballonlea
Ballonlea explores the origins and evolution of 99x56 stamps that originated on DeviantART.
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The small web is rehabilitating how I write
Molly finds focus, clamness and a renewed passion in writing after abandoning big tech and embracing the personal blog.
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Blogging just because
folkmoss emphasizes the liberating and cathartic nature of writing without a specific purpose. I need to take the hint and get right back into posting for the hell of it. I love bloggers who do that.
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thoughts to text
Elena shares their motivation for creating a personal website despite having only a basic understanding of HTML and CSS or having a specific purpose for one. The freedom of self-expression that a personal site offers is enough reason. Why don't you have your own website?
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RSS blogrolls are a federated social network
Robert Alexander explores the potential of RSS feeds and blogrolls to create a federated social network that revitalises the small web, similar to what the fediverse has done for social media. Think of a network of connected blogrolls.
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dealing with rage bait in the indie web
Ava discusses the concept of **rage bait** on the indie web. Bad actors amongst our spaces intentionly drawing out strong emotional reactions from others, hiding their true nature. What moderation options exist, especially when these messages of ill will exist on their own websites?
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To Build A Website, and Remain Invested
Make your website the central communication and sharing platform, that’s all about you, that you own.
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The Free Web - The History of the Web
Put something on the web. And do it for free.
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Intentional web
Prealpinux discusses the concept of an "intentional web," inspired by recent discussion about the social web. I agree with the characteristics, as they’re often brought up and define “our web” but I’ve decided I’m sticking to “the web”…
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If HTML and CSS are so simple, why haven't static sites reigned supreme?
Why haven’t static site generators reigned supreme? It's not that HTML and CSS aren’t simple, they both be simple and difficult at the same time. It’s that static site generators are still slightly out of touch with the non developer. Just take a look at what’s getting built across places like Neocities or Nekoweb to get a glance on what non developers are able to do with HTML and CSS and no SSG…
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The Blogosphere Lives
Mike Grindle explores the connections fostered by blogging and human curation on the web.
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The Web, made by Humans
Andy Piper reflects on their love for the web, the semantic web and the human connections behind online content.
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The Small Internet has Already Succeeded
Cheapskates reflects on the contrast between the corporate Internet and the smaller, personal web, aka, the web…
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Long live hypertext! – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Tracy Durnell talks about the importance of hyperlinks and how they help maintain the essence of an open and healthy web. How we can fight against a hostile future domination by corporate AI hell that would love to see our online experience turn from an interactive experience to a passive one.
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Fighting for our web
Do you remember the first time you felt like the web was magic?
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TechTea - Surfing the Independent Web
Matthew has a fantastic list of links and tips for surfing the independent web!
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Do not comment on another website, when you can write on your own
I’ve long believed the best way to comment on something you’ve seen here is to either contact me, or, preferably, write a post on your own website.
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It’s just a blog - Annie
Annie thinks about the nature of blogging and the differences to other writing. I used to post the random mundane things going on in my life. I’d love to do that again…
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One of us
Mike rightfully points out you don't need the technical stuff like webmentions to be part of the IndieWeb
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Holy Hell, The Social Web Did Not Begin In 2008 - Bix Dot Blog
Bix says what we're all thinking, or saying ourselves.
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How to Monetize a Blog
Maintaining a blog can be a lot of work. A single article can take weeks of research, drafting and editing, collecting and producing included materials, etc. It’s not unusual to seek some form of compensation for it...
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Indie Web, small web, social web, whatever web, my web
Dissasociated weighs in on indie discourse
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Some Thoughts during the Summer Doldrums on the Past, Present, and Future of Computers and the Internet
Cheapskates takes the time to rant about current state. However, they remain hopeful that new technologies and user controlled online communities will emerge to counter current trends and revive the spirit of the early internet. It’s up to us to make a change.
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Hope for the web | James' Coffee Blog
James shares his hope for the web.
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Indieweb Vs Indie Web - fyr.io
It's unfortunate that the IndieWeb™ has that name, because the perfect phrase that instils the "own your stuff, show your personality" feel of the communities represented in these discussions is, in my opinion, "the indie web"
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Yelling at the web clouds – Manu
Funnily enough, the best modern incarnation of that definition of what the web is are the huge social media platforms. Because those, after all, do enable the sharing of content through user-friendly ways meant to appeal users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. Kinda ironic, isn’t it?
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Has the IndieWeb Become Irrelevant? | starbreaker.org
Fuck the IndieWeb, Too
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Smaller
As (para)social media keeps reducing its appeal on me, including the definition of 'Fediverse', I'm also finding the concept of indieweb, in its current techno-ideological form, uninteresting.
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Technoelitism and the IndieWeb movement
For those in the IndieWeb community, think about ways that we can make it easier for non-technical people to get involved in the movement.
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More than blogrolls
So, go forth and multiply content! Share what you find interesting, start a conversation, surprise your readers, and let the small web flourish!
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Make the Web Great Again
Surfing the Web back in those days felt like going on a genuine adventure. Internet Explorer and Netscape were quite fitting names for the browsers that reigned in those days.
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Why blog? Why this blog?
A journey from social media to starting your own website/blog
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The importance of following Smolweb guidelines | Adële's smolweb site
Adële shares guidelines for a smolweb
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It’s not about nostalgia, it’s about human connection • rscottjones
What we are nostalgic for isn’t terrible websites. It’s personal websites. It’s just a bit of diversity in design choices. It’s a hint of a person. Not a personal brand.
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Flamed Fury - A Personal Website Well Done
New Zealander, Flamed, has a well designed and maintained personal website that serves as an example for any new Indy Web folks looking for inspiration
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Back to the Blog
The best time to start a blog was yesterday, the next best time is today.
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Let Us Build a New Web
The more people build their own sites and link to each other, discovery and search will evolve organically.
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Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0
Web 2.0 was not social media! You’re rewriting history that’s less than 20 years old!
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Let’s take back the Web!
Let’s start our own blogs again, on our own domains.
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Why a personal site rather than social media presence?
Hamattion why they have a website rather than just a social media profile
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What helps me browse a personal website | Bacardi55's Web Cave
I find myself highly aligned with bacardi55's preferences!
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Finding the indie web is hard | Delyo's garden
The struggles and challenges of finding and connecting with independent, personal websites and blogs outside of the walled gardens in the small web.
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Now that we have the IndieWeb how are others to find it?
How do people who don't know about IndieWeb, but would like to escape the web-scape funk they’re beholden to, find out about IndieWeb?
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The IndieWeb’s next stage? – Tracy Durnell
The IndieWeb could help people escape silosl, but the IndieWeb is exclusive
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TheSmallWay.txt
I like “the small way;“ it fosters my need and desire to contribute and grow the personal web.
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“Webbing” the IndieWeb – Tracy Durnell
Is requiring a website to participate something the IndieWeb community prioritizes enough to disregard the needs of most Internet users?
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Grow Your Own Services – A beginner's guide to creating your own little corner of the Internet
Grow Your Own Services is a site encouraging people and organisations to create their own online services such as websites, social networks, personal clouds etc
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Having a website isn't about blogging, it's about you
Having a website is not just about blogging - it's about creating an online presence that reflects who you are!
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The Analog Web - The History of the Web
I’m not the first person to observe that a lack of genuine and human-centered discovery does seem to be a significant void in the modern web.
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How to Make a Damn Website
A lot of people want to make a website but don’t know where to start or they get stuck. That’s in part because our perception of what websites should be has changed so dramatically over the last 20 years.
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Beyond the Wikipedia Silo Suggestions for Your Next RetroWeb Site
The Independent Web, (the retroweb, yesterweb, slow web, whatever) needs substance. It needs content (although I hate that word.) And it needs these things to be independent of the silo’s.
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A whole year on the Indie Web - Frills
Frills' celebrates one year of having her personal website 🎉
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The IndieWeb is for Developers
Seems to me that it is not sufficient to have your own website, the website must implement some “IndieWeb features” like webmentions or IndieAuth.
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The "IndieWeb" feels like coming home • Nathaniel Daught
Nathaniel Daught discusses moving his website from Squarespace and Cargo to using Eleventy hosted on Neocities.
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Why I’m Ready to Party Like It’s 1999…Again
What’s old is new again. Blogs are returning. RSS is again ascendant.
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Sharing links via RSS, sharing links via APIs • Cory Dransfeldt
It's encouraging to see more and more folks sharing links, boosting them and blogging them. It makes discovery easier when it's done cooperatively.
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Simple Truths About Personal Websites · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
Write. Publish. Enjoy.
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Old Web, New Web, Indie Web - petermolnar.net
If you have to decide on the order of creative freedom vs data ownership, what order do you choose?
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The Birth and Death of the Yesterweb Forum Reveal Two Important Truths
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Why is your site like this?
Fellow small web enthusiast Di explores why they write, including the desire to create something beautiful and meaningful, the need to process their thoughts and emotions, and the hope to connect with others through their writing. Writing is an act of self-discovery and a way to make sense of the world around them.
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The Year of the Personal Website
Have you heard me say 'create your own homepage!' before? Make 2023 the year we take back the web!
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Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb — Smashing Magazine
There is an alternative to corporate bubbles online — it’s called the indieweb. build your own personal websites, control your online presence, and learn on your own terms.
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Make your own independent website
Victoria shares how to make 2021 the year of the independent web....