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import{_ as a,c as t,o as r,a5 as l,j as e}from"./chunks/framework.CK8QU5WH.js";const w=JSON.parse('{"title":"The Small Web","description":"","frontmatter":{"alias":"The IndieWeb, Personal Web, Personal Websites, IndieWeb","public":"true","slug":"the-small-web","title":"The Small Web","prev":false,"next":false},"headers":[],"relativePath":"garden/the-small-web/index.md","filePath":"garden/the-small-web/index.md"}'),i={name:"garden/the-small-web/index.md"},s=l('<h1 id="the-small-web" tabindex="-1">The Small Web <a class="header-anchor" href="#the-small-web" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;The Small Web&quot;">​</a></h1><blockquote><p>Referenced by: <a href="/now/index">/now</a>, <a href="/garden/this-knowledge-hub/">This Knowledge Hub</a></p></blockquote><p>Small personal websites created by individuals</p><ul><li><a href="/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&#39;t have ads or marketers <ul><li>Comparable to <a href="/garden/the-cozy-web/">The Cozy Web</a> in that way</li></ul></li></ul><p>The small web as a whole is <a href="/garden/freeform/">Freeform</a></p><ul><li>Individual sites may be <a href="/garden/chronological/">Chronological</a> still</li><li>Individual sites link between each other in ways similar to wikis <ul><li>These can form <a href="/garden/webrings/">Webrings</a></li></ul></li></ul><h2 id="browsing-the-small-web" tabindex="-1">Browsing the small web <a class="header-anchor" href="#browsing-the-small-web" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Browsing the small web&quot;">​</a></h2><ul><li>Follow <a href="/garden/webrings/">Webrings</a> or other links from known small websites</li><li><a href="https://search.marginalia.nu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Marginalia</a> is a search engine for non-commercial content with a &quot;random&quot; button and filters for the small web explicitly (amongst other useful filters!)</li></ul><h2 id="building-personal-websites" tabindex="-1">Building personal websites <a class="header-anchor" href="#building-personal-websites" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Building personal websites&quot;">​</a></h2><p><a href="https://indieweb.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">IndieWeb</a> contains various resources</p><ul><li>Their <a href="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><span id="665b6ac0-d3ca-41d8-9534-929ac2907c2e">Free hosting for static websites:</span></p><ul><li><a href="https://neocities.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Neocities</a></li><li><a href="https://codeberg.page" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Codeberg pages</a> (and any other <a href="https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/pages-server" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">pages-server</a> instance) <ul><li>Like on <a href="https://incremental.social/pages" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Incremental Social</a>!</li></ul></li><li><a href="https://pages.github.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Github pages</a></li><li><a href="/garden/weird/">Weird</a> (in development)</li></ul><h3 id="streams" tabindex="-1"><a href="https://indieweb.org/stream" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Streams</a> <a class="header-anchor" href="#streams" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;[Streams](https://indieweb.org/stream)&quot;">​</a></h3><p><a href="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 <a href="/garden/fediverse/">Federated Social Media</a> that works through personal websites</li><li>Announce new posts using <a href="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 <a href="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&#39;re interested in</p><p>How viable would it be to include chat messages in a stream as well?</p><ul><li>Perhaps with <a href="/garden/chat-glue/">Chat Glue</a> you could link to specific branches I chatted in</li></ul><h3 id="digital-gardens" tabindex="-1"><a href="/garden/digital-gardens/">Digital Gardens</a> <a class="header-anchor" href="#digital-gardens" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;[Digital Gardens](/garden/digital-gardens/index.md)&quot;">​</a></h3><p>These sites may be useful to occasionally check up on rather than get notifications from on every post/change</p><ul><li>Although <a href="/garden/garden-rss/">Garden-RSS</a> could allow those who want to receive notifications to do so</li></ul><h3 id="the-future" tabindex="-1">The future <a class="header-anchor" href="#the-future" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;The future&quot;">​</a></h3><p><a href="https://aramzs.xyz/essays/the-internet-is-a-series-of-webs/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">The Internet is a series of webs</a> talks about transitioning from our current consolidated web back to the indie web</p><h2 id="why-people-want-the-small-web" tabindex="-1">Why people want the small web <a class="header-anchor" href="#why-people-want-the-small-web" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Why people want the small web&quot;">​</a></h2><p>There are tools these days that make making websites incredibly easy</p><ul><li>Back in the day geocities was pretty complicated but a lot of people managed to make pages there</li><li>Neocities has an extensive page on <a href="https://neocities.org/tutorials" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Learn How to Make Websites!</a></li></ul><p>Hosting can be expensive, but static websites are cheap</p><ul><li>There are plenty of free options out there for hosting static websites <ul><li>Ideally you&#39;d use some sort of system that is easily transferrable to other servers, and possibly even supports nomadic identities</li><li><a href="/garden/the-small-web/#665b6ac0-d3ca-41d8-9534-929ac2907c2e">Free hosting for static websites:</a></li><li>People are creative and love creating things</li></ul></li></ul><h2 id="recommended-videos-about-the-small-web" tabindex="-1">Recommended videos about the small web <a class="header-anchor" href="#recommended-videos-about-the-small-web" aria-label="Permalink to &quot;Recommended videos about the small 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