Our contribution to the small web: <a href="https://kagi.com/smallweb" rel="nofollow">https://kagi.com/smallweb</a><p>The site and list of blogs is open source, growing steadily by about 10 each day (almost at 15,000 at this point).<p>Every recent post from sites in Kagi Small Web is indexed and given preference in Kagi Search results.<p>How it works: <a href="https://blog.kagi.com/small-web" rel="nofollow">https://blog.kagi.com/small-web</a><p>edit: The project just had its one thousandth commit!
One of the best internet experiences I had in a while is reading (and writing!) posts on bearblog.dev, check out their discover feed. Wholesome place.<p>In similar spirit, check out <a href="https://ooh.directory" rel="nofollow">https://ooh.directory</a>
In the same spirit, here is a site devoted to getting off the centralized platforms:<p><a href="https://landchad.net/" rel="nofollow">https://landchad.net/</a>
I feel like the internet needs a giant directory of indie websites. So you can actually surf around and find them.<p>The big modern search engines almost have to be intentionally hiding these websites because they're nearly impossible to find without using an alternative engine like wiby.me or search.marginalia.nu.
My contribution to the small web is a lightweight blogging platform: <a href="https://lmno.lol" rel="nofollow">https://lmno.lol</a> My blog is at <a href="https://lmno.lol/alvaro" rel="nofollow">https://lmno.lol/alvaro</a><p>You can drag and drop your entire blog from a single markdown file <a href="https://indieweb.social/@xenodium/112265481282475542" rel="nofollow">https://indieweb.social/@xenodium/112265481282475542</a><p>You can read the blogs from anywhere, even terminal (no JS needed).<p>No need to sign up or log in to try it out. I haven't officially launched, but if you'd like to start blogging now, I'll be happy to share an invite code.
Seems like a small web deserves a small client. Why use a "big web" client to read the small web. "Big web" clients are funded by advertising or advertising companies.<p>Bias disclosure: I have used a text-only client for the last 30 years.
My list of shared links is here: <a href="https://www.heyhomepage.com/?module=timeline&view=sharedlist" rel="nofollow">https://www.heyhomepage.com/?module=timeline&view=sharedlist</a><p>It's basically all the sites and feeds I follow daily with the Hey Homepage built-in RSS reader. You can browse the list and click around, or download it as an OPML file.<p>RSS = Really Social Sites;
OPML = Other People's Meaningful Links
There was a push during Covid on Gemini pages. I did that for awhile, but the lack of real formatting and not being able to cross link articles became a stopper.<p>You can see get to some of them here<p>Collaborative Directory of Geminispace: gemini://cdg.thegonz.net/<p>But you need a Gemini reader
One site in this vein that I hope never goes away is <a href="https://rpgclassics.com/" rel="nofollow">https://rpgclassics.com/</a><p>I discovered it as a young lad lost when playing some RPGs on emulators in the early 2000s
i've been publishing things as html2 pages, but not interconnected in any way. so each page (or sometimes group of pages) will be dedicated to an exploration of a single subject. i then send those pages to people who i think might be interested in them. that's all, they otherwise don't see the greater internet. of course people are free to add them to link aggregators, etc. but i don't police this practice. i simply don't care for my output to be consumed by general public, or by llms, or by corporate media, or by whomever who is not my friend or in my immediate immediate circle of friends
Thank you for this. It has inspired me to delete my Reddit account and create an HN account. This gives me hope that the web can survive the social media era.
mobile devices, app-ification and the social media that really started to kill the small web, kind of ironically.<p>and if you're a front end developer it was apple launching the meta viewport tag in 2007 killed the simple front end.