Small Web is kind of broad so these may not fit exactly what you were thinking, but I'll link some of my bookmarks.
Making the Web Fun Again "The purpose of this project is not to inspire nostalgia. It’s to rebuild the platform for us to be able to be creative again. To have sites that we can do whatever we want with. This is not nostalgia speaking. We really did lose our platforms for creativity and rich self expression online, and I want to help bring them back."
Into the Personal-Website-Verse "The personal website. It’s a place to write, create, and share whatever you like, without the need to ask for anyone’s permission. It is also the perfect place to explore and try new things"
Has a nice list of things one can do to connect more with other people who have personal sites.
Click Around and Find Out "If you care about the indie web growing, by all means write, by all means create, by all means curate. But most of all, just read. Or listen, or experience. Spend an afternoon clicking around, like everybody used to. The more people who do that, the more everything else will slot into place without even having to think much about it. If 2024 truly is a tipping point into a new world, then it can’t happen in a vacuum."
The Internet Used to be Fun 'a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?”' Lots of good links in here!
How to Write About Blogs "On the topic of blogging and personal publishing, I found so many interesting articles and nuggets of wisdom the last couple of months through RSS feeds, Mastodon and micro.blog." More links!
E/N "E/N description: The website's author covers a myriad of topics. It's not narrowly focused. The author writes about everything or at least everything that's important to the author. The site might contain something useful for anyone who visits. The content means everything to the publisher, but it could mean nothing to the rest of the world. "
This last one is just a little something about a type of site referred to as Everything/Nothing and helped me get over the sour taste of all those neocities manifestos that say something like 99% of people on there shouldn't have a website because they're "boring people" that I had the misfortune to stumble upon.
Though I don't agree with absolutely everything he says, I've also found two of Jaron Lanier's books interesting: You Are Not a Gadget and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. In the former he discusses how the structure of the web and software holds us back from creativity and pigeon holes people into set behaviors and the latter is a bit more of the same, but with more emphasis on social media addiction.
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Date: 2024-08-30 04:41 am (UTC)Small Web is kind of broad so these may not fit exactly what you were thinking, but I'll link some of my bookmarks.
Making the Web Fun Again
"The purpose of this project is not to inspire nostalgia. It’s to rebuild the platform for us to be able to be creative again. To have sites that we can do whatever we want with. This is not nostalgia speaking. We really did lose our platforms for creativity and rich self expression online, and I want to help bring them back."
Into the Personal-Website-Verse
"The personal website. It’s a place to write, create, and share whatever you like, without the need to ask for anyone’s permission. It is also the perfect place to explore and try new things"
Has a nice list of things one can do to connect more with other people who have personal sites.
Click Around and Find Out
"If you care about the indie web growing, by all means write, by all means create, by all means curate. But most of all, just read. Or listen, or experience. Spend an afternoon clicking around, like everybody used to. The more people who do that, the more everything else will slot into place without even having to think much about it. If 2024 truly is a tipping point into a new world, then it can’t happen in a vacuum."
The Internet Used to be Fun
'a collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a personal website?”'
Lots of good links in here!
How to Write About Blogs
"On the topic of blogging and personal publishing, I found so many interesting articles and nuggets of wisdom the last couple of months through RSS feeds, Mastodon and micro.blog."
More links!
E/N
"E/N description: The website's author covers a myriad of topics. It's not narrowly focused. The author writes about everything or at least everything that's important to the author. The site might contain something useful for anyone who visits. The content means everything to the publisher, but it could mean nothing to the rest of the world. "
This last one is just a little something about a type of site referred to as Everything/Nothing and helped me get over the sour taste of all those neocities manifestos that say something like 99% of people on there shouldn't have a website because they're "boring people" that I had the misfortune to stumble upon.
Though I don't agree with absolutely everything he says, I've also found two of Jaron Lanier's books interesting: You Are Not a Gadget and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. In the former he discusses how the structure of the web and software holds us back from creativity and pigeon holes people into set behaviors and the latter is a bit more of the same, but with more emphasis on social media addiction.