"The Information Dirt-Track"

- A.J.Flavell

#SmallWeb #SmolWeb #IndieWeb

**Caboom! Comment Anywhere, Bring Onto Own Media** https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/caboom-comment-anywhere-bring-onto-own-media/ In the IndieWeb movement there's a concept of "POSSE" - Publish Once, Simultaneously Syndicate Elsewhere. You should publish your words, pictures, songs, reviews on your _own_ site. And then you can choose to share them out to where your audience is. Perhaps that's posting the link on Facebook, or a copy of a photo on Instagram, or sharing the episode on YouTube. There's no shame in meeting your audience where they are - but the canonical version should be somewhere you control. But what about the conversation? Social media is about socialising. People who comment on LinkedIn can't see the comments on Mastodon and vice versa. This is where the concept of "CABOOM!" (exclamation optional) comes in1. As far as practical, you should bring the various comment threads together so everyone can see them2. There are a few ways to do this - choose whichever is right for you. ## Do Nothing Let people self-discover that you syndicate. Perhaps they'll stumble upon a bunch of people discussing your post over on Slashdot. That's fine, but a little hard work. ## Point to your syndication sites At the bottom of your post, you can say "Click here to read the comments on MySpace!" ## Find other sources Did someone share your post to HackerNews? Add a link on your page to the orange-site so that others can read what's being said. ## Convert comments to WebMentions Using a service like Brid.gy you can "upgrade" external comments to WebMentions. They will appear on your post as normal comments, but with a link back to their original location. ## (Ab)use APIs Services like Reddit have APIs. You could pull in a complete comment thread and present it on your own site. ## Make backups Some of those external sites are going to break one day. Take a backup using Archive.org or snap a screenshots. Perhaps link to those if the original goes away. ## Be mindful of others' feelings I've previously discussed the ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions. Not everyone wants their comment copied back to your site. Some people regularly delete comments. Or they may have valid copyright concerns. Just because someone has written something in public, it doesn't mean it is in the public domain. Be kind to your commenters and respect their wishes. ## Have fun There is literally no-one policing this. If you don't want to do it, that's fine. If you want to give it your best effort, that's also fine. * * * 1. As suggested by my wife ↩ 2. The technical term is, apparently, backfeed - which sounds a little too like backwash for my liking! ↩ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/caboom-comment-anywhere-bring-onto-own-media/ #blogging #IndieWebCamp

If you're part of the SmolWeb or like IndieWeb stuff, please don't forget to CABOOM!

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#IndieWeb #POSSE #SmolWeb

Installing Linux Mint on a 2009 MacBook Real Programmer with screwdriver. Born to nerd. Respawned 80s game developer. Tech, games, cycling, sci-fi and old computers. Contents may vary.

Blog Emission: Installing Linux Mint on a 2009 MacBook

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#Linux #Apple #macOS #RetroComputing #blog #smolweb

The new blog is gradually improving. www.seren-boat.uk/
#boatsthattoot #boating #smolweb
Click Blog on the menu bar. I could link it here but then you wouldn't see the pic on the home page.

Original post on toot.wales

Real techies look away now. For a few years I've had a blog on a free Weebly account, mostly to recount my boating trials and tribulations on the canals in England & Wales. But inspired by posts about 'Smolweb' I decided to blog like it's 1989. The result is here: http://seren-boat.uk […]

Original post on fosstodon.org

Let's popularize the Quotes pages. Let people know which #words have inspired you the most or what you turn to for reminders on how you conduct your life. Let me know if you build a quotes page on your website, and I will list them on my page.

#indieweb #smallweb #smolweb #quotes #thoughts […]

R. S. Doiel, Software Engineer/Analyst — Robert's ramblings

A simple web we own

rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2026/02...

#WWW #SmolWeb #CoOwnership #Coop #TechCoop

My gopher site now has a guestbook system and a bunch of new pages! 0 visitors so far! will you be the first? 😅

gopher://hole.din.gy/

#gopher #GopherProtocol #smolweb #gopherspace

My gopher site now has a guestbook system and a bunch of new pages! 0 visitors so far! will you be the first? 😅

gopher://hole.din.gy/

#gopher #GopherProtocol #smolweb #gopherspace

The Indie Web in 2030 Data autonomy should be a right, not a luxury.

Owning your online presence is a radical act. Hopefully five years from now it’ll be a lot more common.

#indieweb #smolweb #indiedev #dataprivacy #dataautonomy

Not switching to Linux Real Programmer with screwdriver. Born to nerd. Respawned 80s game developer. Tech, games, cycling, sci-fi and old computers. Contents may vary.

Glog: Not Switching To Linux

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#smolweb #blog #linux #macos #amiga

Cataloging the (more) independent web As I venture further out into the corners of the indieweb and fediverse, I find that traditional search engines are not providing a good means of discovery. Let's go back to the old ways of directories and web portals. Below is a meta-directory of directories. Including some directories of other directories - it's directories all the way down. ## Fediverse Directories * https://fedidb.com/ * https://fediverse.observer/ * https://instances.social/ ## Fediverse Portals and Info Sites * https://fediverse.party/ * https://the-federation.info/ ## Independent Software Forge Instances * https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/delightful-forgejo#public-instances ## Minimalist Site Clubs * https://1mb.club/ * https://512kb.club/ * https://250kb.club/ * https://no-js.club/ * https://nocss.club/ * https://no-html.club/index.txt ## Other General Directories * https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb * https://indiemap.org/ * https://ooh.directory/ * https://indieblog.page/ * https://bukmark.club/ * https://indieseek.xyz/links/ * https://industrialnation.co.uk/ * https://minifeed.net/welcome * https://personalsit.es/ * https://blogroll.org/ * https://collection.mataroa.blog/ * https://url.town/ ## Other Meta Directories * https://www.brisray.com/web/indiedirs.htm * https://www.brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm * https://diagram.website/ ## Webring Directories * https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/32-bit-cafe-webring-directory/2835 * https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Webring * https://tuffgong.nekoweb.org/webring-list.html * https://webrings.nickifaulk.com/ ## Small Web Communities * https://32bit.cafe/ * https://tildeverse.org/ * https://tilde.club/ * https://melonland.net/ ## Search Engines * https://searchmysite.net/ * https://wiby.me/ ## Really Meta * https://indieweb.org/directory * https://indieweb.org/this-week/ ## Honorable Mentions * https://neocities.org/browse * https://nekoweb.org/explore?page=1&sort=follows&by=name&q=

Cataloging the (more) independent web (www.nateify.xyz/posts/cataloging-the-mor...

Read a post on #gemini by @xn--gckvb8fzb.com and can't stop thinking about how it would have been better off as a subset of http. I think I may explore that today. #smallweb #smolweb

The Ukulele Playlist A curated playlist of ukulele videos.

Your mum is not aware that I'm publishing my #ukulele videos on video.choan.es

A #smolweb, privacy respecting static site. No cookies.

A phone book style page of entries of idiosyncratic indieweb pages on the web with Sundeck in the centre

Look me up in the Internet Phone Book.

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(Photo thanks to mastodon.art/@chrisjonesi...)

#IndieWeb #SmolWeb

Original post on mastodon.social

...no, the last two aren't up yet - so I'll finish with a reminder that all the above are also accessible via #Gemini - not Google's stochastic parrot, but the #Gopher-inspired #SmolWeb protocol.

No pictures, no adverts, no tracking - I don't even track how many hits the pages get!

gemini […]

Original post on bliry.fr

IT'S ALIVE!!! ​:neofox_reach:​

gemini://mbox-sys.net/

we finally have a site! (or more accurately, a capsule since it's on gemini)

we haven't posted much yet (beside the mandatory hello world post), but at least we've got something!

if you have no idea what gemini is […]

Amiga 40 Germany Real Programmer with screwdriver. Born to nerd. Respawned 80s game developer. Tech, games, cycling, sci-fi and old computers. Contents may vary.

#Amiga40 things leaked out of my brain into a post. Lesen Sie es!

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#Amiga #RetroGaming #smolweb

The Small Web 101 The Small Web 101

New living document: The Small Web 101

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#smallweb #smolweb

Does launching a free hosting service for simple websites like #smolweb still make any sense?

Now that I'm picking either pollux casa or some other gemini capsule hosting site on the gemini-web (Or Geminispace as most of the residents on the protocol calls it)
I'll be picking pollux.casa, and I'll have to host it on Filezilla (Or something else, hmm) #Geminispace #Gemini-web #smolweb

Btw I went a bit quiet bc I built a mini RSS reader in Grav (with Twigfeeds plugin testing/dev) and am busy reading excellent sources of fine quality content. Some of my feeds are mastodon rss. I love RSS.

#rss #feeds #grav #qualitycontent #smalltech #smolweb

🧶✏️👩🏽‍💻 The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it) The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites

Nice to read this. Ive always called myself an Internet Gardener, sowing the seeds of individual and group digital presence, providing easy, simple solutions to web needs.

#SmallWeb #smolweb #smalltech #internet #ourinternet

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Table of top pages today.

Table of users and views in the last week.

Table of top countries today.

Table of top referers today.

Might have gone a *little* overboard! I rather like this though.
Self-hosted analytics showing a graph of the last 7 days.
Today's top referers, pages, and countries.

Super simple and suitable for my needs.

Next up - import historic data and work out if I […]

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Original post on dialup.cafe

dear kiki webmasters

happy to release v1.1.4 which fixes a handful of annoying bugs that @kickingk took the time to find and report. thank you 👏

patch notes here:
tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki/devlog/1012144/v114...

if you're a new kiki webmaster, please report thy feats (or […]

smolweb HTML specification smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate.

**smolweb HTML specification**
"smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate."

#HTML #SmallInternet #spec #smolweb

Original post on mastodon.social

Ppl of Mastodon. Please help educate the normies about independent, small tech and self hosting. Not only fancy stuff like docker/VS etc and home servers, but cheap shared webspace online, small CMS, wikis, favourite federated or OS apps, (mine are Masto, Lemmy, Grav, Jekyll, Ghost and others) […]

Smolweb (aka smol tech, small tech etc) is a growing thing. Im making a personal info app with file management, toolkit, RSS feed network and quick notes. This basically replaces everything I did in Google Drive, plus provides more functions. I degoogled from Drive completely.
#degoogle #smolweb

Screen shot showing a dynamically populated list of tools that a user might want to use.

Screen shot showing Excalidraw, open inside the joynd app.

Screen shot showing an Excalidraw file opened from local storage to edit inside the joynd app.

Very pleased to now have the toolkit list working, with some technical and design work to still do. Creating custom posts to hold tool data means I can control how the user chooses to open an app. I'll do a blog post on this bc its useful for others working […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]