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The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Post by type0 »

Gunax wrote: post #125
Ylpertnodi wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

They do earn money when you go to Malory's Astrology page that is full of Google Ads

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Post by unsungNovelty »

susam wrote: post #7

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…

Hey!!!!!

That is my website! To be fair, the hard part is hard to keep a personal website regularly updated without making people think it's abandoned. I don't have a regular post cadence. So it looks like I don't touch the website at all for months. But I regularly update my posts and other sections event if there isn't any new posts.

I also wrote something similar to OP - https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2024/life-of-a-blog-b...

And I'd like to also mention https://marginalia-search.com/ which is a small OSS search engine I have been using more and more theese days. I find it great to find IndieWeb / Small Web content.

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Post by postalcoder »

susam wrote: post #7

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…

Multiple layers of curation works really well. Specifically, using HN as a curation layer for kagi's small web list. I implemented this on https://hcker.news. People who have small web blogs should post them on HN, a lot of people follow that list!

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Post by bung »

varun_ch wrote: post #22

A fun trend on the "small web" is the use of 88x31 badges that link to friends websites or in webrings. I have a few on my website, and you can browse a ton of small web websites that way. https://varun.ch (at the bottom of the page) There's also a couple directories/network graphs https://matdoes.dev/buttons https://eightyeightthirty.one/

gotta be using pixel fonts for those, they been around for 25 years, actually readable at 8px lol

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

honeycrispy wrote: post #57
GuB-42 wrote: post #44

I don't expect many people to agree but I think that the "small web" should reject encryption, which is the opposite direction that Gemini is taking. I don't deny the importance of encryption, it is really what shaped the modern web, allowing for secure payment, private transfer of personal information, etc... See where I am getting at? Removing encryption means that you can't reasonably do financial transactions, ac…

Anyone between you and the server can change the content of the page on unencrypted connections. I would love to live in a world where encryption is unnecessary, but unfortunately that world does not exist right now.

We do live in that world. Encryption is not at all necessary for the majority of web sites out there. The practice you speak of is not commonplace and does not need active defending against.

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Post by matheusmoreira »

susam wrote: post #7

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…

These curated discovery services require RSS and Atom feeds. My site doesn't even have those. Looks like I'm too small for the small web.

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Post by gzread »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #157
susam wrote: post #7

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…

These curated discovery services require RSS and Atom feeds. My site doesn't even have those. Looks like I'm too small for the small web.

Same here, but I'm considering adding it. I already have HTML, so it can't be that hard to add another format. More onerous is needing to write a blog post at least once a week.

And woe betide thee whose website isn't a blog.

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Post by freediver »

krapp wrote: post #97
jopsen wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'd like to think that we have captured most of (english speaking) personal blogs I think that's naive. But maybe thats just because my blog wasn't on the list :)

Neither is mine, But that's fine with me.

That is about to change :)
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