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.</p><hr/><divclass="e-content"><blockquote><p>Referenced by: <ahref="/now/index">/now</a>, <ahref="/garden/this-knowledge-hub/">This Knowledge Hub</a></p></blockquote><p>Small personal websites created by individuals</p><ul><li><ahref="/garden/my-personal-website/">My Personal Website</a></li><li>A callback to how the web was before social media, which homogenized content</li><li>These pages are diverse and typically won't have ads or marketers <ul><li>Comparable to <ahref="/garden/the-cozy-web/">The Cozy Web</a> in that way</li></ul></li></ul><p>The small web as a whole is <ahref="/garden/freeform/">Freeform</a></p><ul><li>Individual sites may be <ahref="/garden/chronological/">Chronological</a> still</li><li>Individual sites link between each other in ways similar to wikis <ul><li>These can form <ahref="/garden/webrings/">Webrings</a></li></ul></li></ul><h2id="browsing-the-small-web"tabindex="-1">Browsing the small web <aclass="header-anchor"href="#browsing-the-small-web"aria-label="Permalink to "Browsing the small web""></a></h2><p>Follow <ahref="/garden/webrings/">Webrings</a> or other links from known small websites</p><p><ahref="https://search.marginalia.nu"target="_blank"rel="noreferrer">Marginalia</a> is a search engine for non-commercial content with a "random" button and filters for the small web explicitly (amongst other useful filters!)</p><h2id="building-personal-websites"tabindex="-1">Building personal websites <aclass="header-anchor"href="#building-personal-websites"aria-label="Permalink to "Building personal websites""></a></h2><p><ahref="https://indieweb.org/"target="_blank"rel="noreferrer">IndieWeb</a> contains various resources</p><ul><li>Their <ahref="https://indieweb.org/Category:building-blocks"target="_blank"rel="noreferrer">building blocks</a> are standards people can use to help the small web connect with each other consistently</li><li>They discourage the use of site builders or templates that end up making sites look too homogenized</li></ul><p><spanid="665b6ac0-d3ca-41d8-9534-929ac2907c2e">Free hosting for static websites:</span></p><ul><li><ahref="https://neocities.org"target="_blank"rel="noreferrer">Neocities</a></li><li><ahref="https://codeberg.page"target="_blank"rel="noreferrer">Codeberg pages</a> (and any other <ahref="https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/pages-server"target="_blank"rel="noreferrer">pages-server</a> instance) <ul><li>Like on <ahref="https://incremental.social/pages"target="_blank"rel="noreferrer">Incremental Social</a>!</li></ul></li><li><ahref="https://pages.github.com"target="_blank"rel="noreferrer">Github pages</a></li><li><ahref="/garden/weird/">Weird</a> (in development)</li></ul><h3id="streams"tabindex="-1"><ahref="https://indieweb.org/stream"target="_blank"rel="noreferrer">Streams</a><aclass="header-anchor"href="#streams"aria-label="Permalink to "[Streams](https://indieweb.org/stream)""></a></h3><p><ahref="https://indieweb.org/Microsub"target="_blank"rel="noreferrer">Microsub</a> is a proposed protocol to support this</p><ul><li>That way, people could use microsub clients to subscribe to multiple streams and get them in one feed</li><li>Effectively a <ahref="/garden/fediverse/">Federated Social Media</a> that works through personal websites</li><li>Announce new posts using <ahref="https://indieweb.org/WebSub"target="_blank"rel="noreferrer">WebSub</a></li></ul><p>This also allows your personal website to be the one source of truth for your posted content</p><ul><li>Effectively solves the problems described in <ahref="https://jonbell.medium.com/hey-creators-please-make-firehoses-8d0c48c075e4"target="_blank"rel="noreferrer">Hey Creators, Please Make Firehoses!</a></li></ul><p>Multiple streams can be hosted by one site/person so people can subscribe to the kind of content they're interested in</p><p>How viable would it be to include chat messages in a stream as well?</p><ul><li>Perhaps with <ahref="/garden/chat-glue/">Chat Glue</a> you could link to spe
