I'm very keen on public libraries. I'm fortunate in that our village has a community run one, there is the county one, and I can get to The British Library. Why do these entities exist? A real question - not rhetorical. Whatever the answer, I am sure the same mechanism could "pay for" public hosting.
The “small web” is bigger than you might think
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Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think
#182I'm very keen on public libraries. I'm fortunate in that our village has a community run one, there is the county one, and I can get to The British Library. Why do these entities exist? A real question - not rhetorical. Whatever the answer, I am sure the same mechanism could "pay for" public hosting.
Are you asking why public libraries exist?
Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think
#183I don't want to be part of the "small web" - I want to be part of the web. If my stuff can't be found in a sea of a million ad-ridden whatever sites so be it, but I am not going out of my way to submit stuff to special search engines or web rings, I've been there in the 90s.
Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think
#184But if people want to keep sites free of commercial influences can't they do that with existing technologies? Do they really need to use some exotic technologies which have the side effect of limiting the commercial use?
My point is that by using exotic tech, they limit the general public exposure to the "un-commercial web".
Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think
#185I don't want to be part of the "small web" - I want to be part of the web. If my stuff can't be found in a sea of a million ad-ridden whatever sites so be it, but I am not going out of my way to submit stuff to special search engines or web rings, I've been there in the 90s.
My point also: I rather see the existing web transformed than being part of some obscure circles that not many people care about.
Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think
#186I remember the days of just chatting with folks on No Mutants Allowed (fallout fan forum) or SubSim.com, about life and stuff. We all sort of knew each other after years chatting about the games we played, and it felt so cozy and low-stakes.
I recently jumped back onto IRC Rizon, and man, what a throwback.
The small web really is MUCH bigger when you start adding other protocols like IRC and onion sites.
Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think
#187A 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…
They barely mentioned your website (fourth in five urls, mainly talking about indieblog.com and kagi.com/smallweb), so "That is my website!" is confusing and makes it seem like you're autoresponding to a keyword.
Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think
#188A 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…
That top one only updates once a year. Not saying that as a criticism, just how lucky he was to update recently enough to end up in this top comment
Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think
#189I think Gemini might be wise to rename, now there's a commercial product trampling all over it's namespace.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
They barely mentioned your website (fourth in five urls, mainly talking about indieblog.com and kagi.com/smallweb), so "That is my website!" is confusing and makes it seem like you're autoresponding to a keyword.
Why should I auto-respond to a keyword? Just curious seeing it here buddy. Breathe easy.