@reiver That was sort of my point, some of the #smolweb people of today are the same people as those who were excited by the web in the 1990s. I know, since I'm one of them.
#smolweb
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I think some of the hopes for Small-Net & Small-Web from its fans, enthusiasts, and advocates is —
• the return of individuals creating and publishing niche narrowly focused sites,
• removing the modern Gate-Keepers.
These obviously aren't the only desires from those in the Small-Net & Small-Web scene and social-movement, but — I think these 2 are interesting because they are related to the origin of the World-Wide-Web.
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The Web wasn't the start of the social-movement to get rid of these (historical) Gate-Keepers.
(The social-movement goes back to at least BBS and other similar networks — i.e., what, for regular people, was before the Internet.)
But the Web did have a big impact on removing these Gate-Keepers. A BIG one!
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Prior to the Web, if you wanted to publish something you created and reach a mass audience or a community — most of the time you would have to go through the TV industry, the film industry, the radio industry, or the newspaper industry.
These were the Gate-Keepers of the time.
In practice, only those with wealth or power were able to get permission from these Gate-Keepers.
For most of the people in the world — this wasn't an option
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I think people nowadays are unaware of just how big of a deal that latter part was — being able to write and publish content you created and reach an audience!
It was a huge deal!
As much as the Web was a technology, it was also a social-movement.
Part of the social-movement of the Web getting rid of Gate-Keeper.
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As I said, these niche web-sites about some narrow topic were one of the draws of the Internet on the 1990s and early 2000s.
Both reading what others wrote about niche topics you also cared about and perhaps also obsessed over.
But also, being able to create your own niche content on the (narrow) interests you obsessed over.
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These niche web-sites about some narrow topic of the 1990s and early 2000s were one of the draws of the Internet back then.
(And, to put this into context, remember that the mass-Internet, where regular people used the Internet, didn't really start until about the years 1998 to 2001.)
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The Web of the 1990s and early 2000s (then called the World-Wide-Web) was different (in quality) from the Web of today.
One interesting thing from that era was that — there were many individuals who (on their own) created whole web-sites about some (narrow) topic each of them obsessed over. Something that each of them raged to master and document — and then published to the world (via the World-Wide-Web).
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I will here present how I host my blog:
1. I create an HTML file.
2. I upload it to Neocities.
3. I share the URL here.
That's pretty much it.
What's my point? Most of us has something worth sharing, at least something which will feel good to share for ourselves. But, most likely we will never have the audience nor the number of articles necessary to replicate the publication pipeline for The Times of India. E.g. firing up a word processor and save as HTML; unless one personally gets something out of doing something more complicated, that's all needed for sharing a thought.
I solved a problem with the #Intel HD Graphics 520 on my #Thinkpad X270, namely DRI3 was not enabled in #xlibre and provoking warnings from mpv and odd results from glxgears.
You can also now read all about it in my #gopher phlog via #smolweb too. Hehe.
https://spike.nagatha.fr/log/2025/2025-12-12-10-10-Note-to-self-dr3-not-supported-on-X270-solved.txt
New #blog on #BurgeonLab ✍️
➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/blog/find-orphan-pages-using-python/
Created a #python script to help find pages that are not linked to, from my own site (no internal links, aka orphan pages).
It was a fun little experiment. Happy it works.
#blogging #blogs #scripts #seo #orphanpages #newpost #blogpost #smolweb #guides #techblog #techguides #webdev #hugo #hugossg
In case you are not familiar with them, I think you might like Project Gemini and the smol (small) web.
https://geminiprotocol.net
https://erock.prose.sh/what-is-the-smol-web
I find Gemini and Gopher fun, but all else being equal, I think it's better to build for inclusivity. Sometimes the self selecting effect of requiring a specific browser is a desirable property, but most of the time I think an open door and welcoming every non-asshole showing interest is a better strategy. Simple, straightforward, minimal HTML pages are easier for an arbitrary person to access than a Gopher hole on Tor.
My #smolweb adventures continue. Adding to my initial Gemini Capsule hosted by the inspirational @adele (who introduced me to the smolweb, and #permacomputing )and my Gemini #selfhosting experiment there is now a #Gopher hole.
gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/problemfox/
#alwaysLearning #agingCyberpunk
gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/problemfox/
#alwaysLearning #agingCyberpunk
Le #smallWeb c'est bien, mais il me manquait un moteur de recherche adapté sur mon site statique construit avec #hugo .
Je ne pensais pas que c'était possible.
Et j'ai trouvé #pagefind : mon site reste statique, l'indexation est faite en amont, et le site reste super léger et rapide. 😋
Seule la page de recherche charge le javascript si elle est utilisée.
@Barbara_Sliwinska @kravietz amatorzy tego dobra tutaj mieszkają pod tagem #smolweb
I almost ditched my published #GeminiProtocol capsules. Well, and then I saw how fast #Gemini runs using #AmiGemini on #Amiga and #MorphOS. Reason enough to stay with it.
@anselmschueler precisely that is what I want!
I want a #SmolWeb (kinda like #web0 as proposed by @aral [[who gave up on fixing the website and now redirects to @internetarchive ])…
I want fast & simple #websites that just work even on #narrowband and/or #TextBrowsers because not everyone has #FTTH & double-digit Gigabyres of RAM and Quadcores to throw after the problem.
If I can't use a site with #LynxBrowser over @torproject / #Tor, it's useless to me!
We can put #interactivity that uses it as an option, but it should NEVER be mandatory!
I wanted to re-post this #Solarpunk manifesto on my account, only because snac is very friendly with non-javascript and #smolweb browsers.
All credit goes to @TheBird@blahaj.zone
Source: https://blahaj.zone/notes/afu4n5fr7gr7038j
All credit goes to @TheBird@blahaj.zone
Source: https://blahaj.zone/notes/afu4n5fr7gr7038j
----My Solarpunk Manifesto
Solarpunk is a radical hope-infused aesthetic and political ideology centered on building an equitable, sustainable, just, and accessible world where no one is left behind, where we build with nature, where we destroy all forms of exploitation and oppression, where we celebrate the wonderful diversity of humanity and nature, where we live within our planet's optimal boundaries for habitability and survival.
Solarpunk rejects unhealthy growth. Instead, it embraces harmony with one's environment, degrowth and decolonial concepts that are rooted in unlearning our unhealthy and harmful socializations from past violent regimes. Where we instead build with nature in a collaborative way.
Solarpunk embraces the Pluriverse, where there is no one way for all of society and people to live/exist, but there is a multiplicity in lifestyles, ways of being, and ways of constructing society. Finding the healthiest, care-centric, equitable, just, and accessible way of being in society requires collaboration and exploration by those within that community, and often is unique to that community.
Solarpunk rejects binary models. Humanity and the natural world exists in multiplicity. There are multiple genders, multiple sexual orientations, multiple ways bodies can appear, and multiple abilities, which all have validity.
Solarpunk embraces accessibility and inclusivity as the foundation in which to build society and relations with one another, where events and places are easily accessible to people of all abilities and gender and age.
Solarpunk rejects capitalist-individualism. Instead, it embraces collective care and solidarity between fellow human beings and non-human beings and ecosystems, where our unique individuality is celebrated for its diversity and our contributions to our community accepted at the level in which people are able to give.
Solarpunk recognizes the dynamic and ever-evolving process that is nature as well as its right to exist alongside human being's right to exist. We are in community, and that relationship with nature and one another requires collective care and solidarity.
Solarpunk rejects unhealthy competition and embraces instead collaboration and conflict resolution. To build a community requires collaboration and just conflict resolution strategies.
Solarpunk rejects greed and hoarding of resources that is endemic to capitalism. Instead, solarpunk embraces sharing and collectively/publicly held goods, land, information, and resources. This isn't to say solarpunk is against us personally owning things, but to say that:
* the land itself cannot be owned as property as it holds personhood within our collective Earth community,
* the public commons are crucial to survival,
* information should be open and free to access and use,
* Internet infrastructure should be open and accessible for all to use and held collectively by the people
* library systems are critical for the community and provide books, tech equipment, skill swaps, and other necessary items and skills for all to use,
* healthcare free and accessible to all, education free and accessible to all, where a diverse methodology of problem-solving and encouragement of discovery and reading is emphasized,
* the goods/resources needed for survival must be shared equitably so no one is left behind and everyone is provided for,
* all our infrastructure is collectively held and maintained,
* all of our society -- every aspect of our community -- is accessible to all who dwell in it.
Solarpunk rejects exploitation of others and one's environment. Instead, it embraces collective care and mutual aid, where we honor and respect one another's differences, identities, abilities, and actively listen and care for each other. Where we seek to do no harm and if harm is done, actively hold one another accountable and do repair. Transformative justice is often the framework used in repair. Where we work in collaboration with one another and the ecosystems in which we dwell. That we sustainably source our materials and engage in repair to ecosystems, to give them time to recover for any extraction we do to meet our collective needs. To never take more than we need and to use all that we need to avoid waste. To create things made to last, where we can repair and mend what we have and share those skills within inclusive and accessible systems, like libraries of skills, goods, books, etc.
Solarpunk rejects racism, rejects white supremacy, rejects ableism, rejects classism, rejects sexism, rejects xenophobia, rejects homophobia and transphobia, rejects antisemitism, rejects all forms of bigotry that treats a group of people as less-than.
Solarpunk embraces liberation, equality and equity, where no one is left behind, where non-hierarchical, horizontal democratic practices are utilized.
Solarpunk rejects borders. Borders are often used to punish migrants and asylum seekers and has been a source of violence against other groups of people that is rooted in supremacy, domination, and xenophobia. Thus, solarpunk rejects it. Instead, solarpunk embraces either open borders or no borders at all. Migrants are welcomed and needs provided for just like any person dwelling in that community.
Solarpunk invites everyone to work together collaboratively toward a just, sustainable, equitable, accessible present and future. Where we can start building that right now with one another even as we work to end the harmful systems oppressing us. Power to the people! We can do this together.
#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 006 is out!
2025: Week 49/52 (Dec 1 – 7)
https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2025/w49/
#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #blogpost #smolweb #weeknote #personalBlog
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