Bookmarks tagged "smallweb"
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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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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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The Joys of a Small Social Feed
How deliberately following a small number people on Mastodon leads to a more peaceful experience. Has me contemplating my own following count.
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The IndieWeb and Small web
What’s the overlap between the IndieWeb and the small web?
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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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PicoSSG
Pico is a tiny static site generator focused on simplicity, giving you a lightweight way to build plain HTML sites without a full framework.
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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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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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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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the internet's too fast
Has the pace of the internet become so fast that it’s overwhelming?
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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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The HTML Hobbyist
A personal website by HTML hobbyist, Nathan, sharing simple HTML, CSS, and RSS tutorials based on courses they taught at Berkley Computer Training between 1997-2003
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Beardy Guy Musings
Beardy Guy thinks about blog discovery.
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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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Don't Forget - You're Making Web Pages
The Web that was, how we lost our way, and how to fulfill our promise to The Future.
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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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Cheers to the Small Web - Cole's Blog
Cole wants to thank all of us who create their own space on the web
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Small matters
The idea behind the Small Web is to return to the early days before the internet was overly commercialized, homogenized, and controlled by mega-corporations.
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Praising the small web
Those of us who have taken the time to build our own sites on the 'small web' generally have something to share that’s outside the regular perspectives.
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Blogging is back
Robert Birming declares now is the ideal time to start a personal blog
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I Like Your Blog If...
Lou Plummer likes your blog
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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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Link Punk: A Linkblog
A fantastic link blog worth subscribing to
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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Various Search Engines I've Used
Scribbles 'n Bits shares a comprehensive evaluation of search engines they've used over the last five years.
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The Web Is Not Inevitable – Nathan Knowler
The Web needs you and me.
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Link Pantry
Link Pantry is a collection of links on various topics
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That site you use is dead
Are we not tired yet? Just like how nobody needs Twitter, nobody needs Google. A better web does exist.
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You’re a Blogger, Not an Essayist - I am BARRY HESS
Barry Hess reminds us that we're bloggers, and not essayists. Encourages us to simply write and blog rather than agonising over it.
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We Are the Curators of the Web - I am BARRY HESS
Barry Hess puts forward a suggestion for a collaborative approach to small web curation
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Do Things and Tell People
Five rules for sustainable self-promotion of what you put love into creating.
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The personal website returns: the good, the bad, and the ugly of it
Needless to say, I welcome the homecoming of the homepage, personal or otherwise. Not that some ever really went away.
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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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We can have a different web
The thing is: none of this is gone. Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back. If anything, it's become a lot easier. We can return. Better, yet: we can restore the things we loved about the old web while incorporating the wonderful things that have emerged since and developing even better things as we go forward.
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Get Blogging!
A practical and easy guide to starting a new blog.
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“read, write, own” web | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
A fascinating look at what personal or individual websites were used for back in the day before the platforms of today became dominant. The web could still be like this…
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Blogging Under a Pseudonym
Moxie also shares their reasons for navigating online under a pseudonym
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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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Why blog anonymously - Frills
I have an online ecosystem using this pseudonym, so in a way, I don't really consider myself as being anonymous, rather that I just have an 'online name'.
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Blogging anonymously | Adële's smolweb site
Anonymity allows me to express myself openly and honestly without fear of repercussion. It creates a safe space for dialogue and discussion, where individuals can connect over shared interests and ideas without judgment.
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Blogging is Conversation - Cole's Blog
Such storytelling doesn’t have to be perfect. I can simply tell my story without much thought to the words I use or the format I come up with.
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Rheenah's webpage | Blog
Your blog doesn't have to be as monotonous as a daily diary recounting your activities. It can be simple, silly, stupid. It can be YOU. Or anything you want it to be. Someone will find it interesting, someone will read it.
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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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A whole year on the Indie Web - Frills
Frills' celebrates one year of having her personal website 🎉
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The “golden era” of blogging
During the golden era of blogging, authenticity was paramount, and connections were formed through genuine storytelling and shared experiences rather than metrics and algorithms.
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Marginalia: A New Lens for the Internet
An interview with Viktor from Marginalia
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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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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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The Teenage Web
>Welcome to the Corporate Internet. It didn’t used to be like this. The web used to be a collection of independently-operated sites that we all individually controlled. We used to be so punk rock about the web.
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Small Web Connectivity
One of the things social media took from us was a true sense of connection.
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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.