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https://www.demarkus.io/ https://github.com/latebit-io/demarkus
Mark protocol, with client tools, tui, server, and mcp (yes I know, hype train, but useful for agents) only markdown format. Simple :)
I read alot against monetization in the comments. I think because we are used monetization being so exploitative, filled with dark patterns and bad incentives on the Big Web. But it doesnt need to be thia way: small web can also be about sustainable monetization. In fact there's a whole page on that on https://indieweb.org/business-models There's nothing wrong with "publishers" aspiring to get paid.
We should want indie developers, writers, etc to make money so that the only game in town doesn't end up being those who didn't care about being ethical.
We also recently released support for plain-text-lists which is a gemini-inspired spec that use lists as its foundational structure.
A little shell function I have in my ~/.zshrc: pages() { for _ in {1..5}; do curl -sSw '%header{location}\n' https://indieblog.page/random | sed 's/.utm.*//'; done } Here is an example output: $ pages https://alanpearce.eu/post/scriptura/ https://jmablog.com/post/numberones/ https://www.closingtags.com/blog/home-networking https://www.unsungnovelty.org/gallery/layers/ https://thoughts.uncountable.uk/now/ On macOS, we…
$ xdg-open $(pages)It's sad how the snall web became invisible. I used to use all sorts of small websites in 2005. But by 2015 I used only about 10 large ones. Like many changes, I cannot pinpoint exactly when this happened. It just occurred to me someday that I do not run into many unusual websites any longer. It's unfortunate that so much of our behavior is dictated by Google. I dint think it's malicious or even intentional--but at s…
It did seem we had that for a while and now everything funnels back to a handful of big platforms.
Maybe as AI swallows the data of the entire web, it would start to look for these small sites, small creators, and rare personal content to keep itself interesting and we'll see more of them?
It has about 1000 blogs in the repo at the moment. Discovering was the most time consuming part.
Isn't this a simple compute opportunity? ... > March 15 there were 1,251 updates [from feed of small websites ...] too active, to publish all the updates on a single page, even for just one day. Well, I could publish them, but nobody has time to read them all. if the reader accumulates a small set of whitelist keywords, perhaps selected via optionally generating a tag cloud ui, then that est. 1,251 likely drops to ~…
I have a blog filter that does something similar (https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/), but the UI I ended up with isn't great and too many things are uncategorized.
Has there been any effort in taking any of these small web type approaches into a headscale type space? My preferences would be to have a private area where whitelisting prevents crawling or scraping. Am baffled why someone hasn’t created a headscale server and started distributing nodes to personally known ‘good intentioned’ humans. Anyone ever heard of anything like this?
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> I dint think it's malicious or even intentional--but at some point they stopped directing traffic to small websites. Small websites have small dollars?
Does Google get money for directing traffic to sites (barring sites that pay for ad placement, that is)? If I search for 'astronomy', Google doesnt earn any money whether i go to the Wikipedia page for astronomy, or Joe's astronomy site, right?
A few years ago they upranked all results on a few trusted domains, so many of those domains filled up with advertising and cheap copywritten content. They framed this as 'fighting misinformation.'