Human curation is needed because Google search is collapsing, the web has been consolitadef behind walls or polluted by AI slop though optimized for SEO

Writing on Medium can become an obsession for metrics. A playground or a sandbox is needed in public, think and learn in public. omg.lol is maybe too technical. Another popular blog platform is Bear Blog that I also follow. It's only text-based.

Good Enough makes small products:

• a blogging platform Pika.page that costs 6$ after 50 posts
• a simple contact form Letterbid
• a social light platform to make lists of albums and discover new musics Album Whale
• a markdown renderer Quack
• a connected printer Guestbook

There is also the 100 Days to Offload Challenge in 365 days to write more.

and elsewhere with search engines, URL directories.

There is also a whole philosophy and principles behind transitioning from corporate social media to the IndieWeb: Thinkpieces from Rachel, Yesterweb,

The web 1.0 Aesthetics is making a come back with 88x31 badges with a badge generator, Webrings and Slash pages.

To build all of that, some published coding resources such as Sadgrl.online guides, Dragonfly Cave's HTML Guide, HTML for People

To publish it: the Awesome Self-Hosted collecting different web hostings, NeoCities and NekoWeb. PorkBun is recommended to buy a domain.

As amways it depends. As long as moving from an infrastructure is easy, then it's OK.

Outside the grasp of social media nad the commercial web sits a broad community of people with personal websites and blogs. [...] The community has received many names:

• The Small Web contrasts this community with the “Big Web”, valuing personal ownership over scale.
• The IndieWeb also values personal ownership of websites, providing numerous technical standards and proposals to help facilitate interaction between different people’s blogs.
• Web 1.0 rejects the hype of “Web 2.0” apps, using simple, straightforward technologies to build websites.
• The Blogosphere is an old term that’s been around since 1999, referencing the community of bloggers.
• The Web Revival is the concept shared by many that this community has been growing and making a comeback.

This web relies on the hyperlinks.

There is the classic web Discovery with Blogrolls, Webrings and Feeds.

and search engines that are wonderful tools to find a specific thing, but they shouldn't be the only discovery tool, because they only show a subset of the available information.

That's why Clew highlights the small independent websites "to make discovering what real people think easier". Other search engines are doing this:

• Marginalia
• Unobtanium
• Stract
• Lieu focus on webrings.
• Mwmbl - curated by the users.
• Search My Site crawls user-submitted sites
• Wiby for websites using older technology, great for use on vintage computers.
• YaCy - a decentralized search engine
• PeARS - A search engine that can be run in the browser, without needing a server.
• Mojeek - an independent search engine

Another idea to bring back a healthier web is to provide blogrolls in the OPML format directly: https://opml.org/blogroll.opml.
Jamesg.blog created the Artemis Link Graph web extension. It lists the web pages authored by people you follow that link to the page you are viewing.

All of these has one limitation: much of the independent web today is made up of people with similar interests, in technology in particular.

Many feeds here for one website

And now, imagine that this place is your personal website, under your own domain name, under your control.
This is the basic idea behind the IndieWeb.

Most tools and ideas of the IndieWeb is Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.
Another is Webmentions.

Good job!

A simple project to get small web projects running

The project website is at https://kitten.small-web.org/

An acronym standing for "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere".

It seems great :D