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I have a degrowth theory that is positive regardless of how valid it is.

Setup:
It is hard to make degrowth things when the overly complex
thing is currently existing.

My exmaple now is facebook marketplace.
That is fundamentally a good idea.

If there was no facebook marketplace, maybe people
across the US (for example) would build things to do
that. Most would probably fizzle out and some might
succeed.

So maybe that number doesn't really change with an
existing facebook marketplace. If right now a bunch
of people started making their own things, then
also most would fizzle out and some might succeed.

TLDR: Basically I am convincing myself that it's a false
barrier to say that the overly complex thing is currently
existing. It's not an optical illusion if it just looks like one.

#degrowth #smol #smolweb

I need some #blog software recommendations: a non-tech friend asked me to help her setup a website. I can host something for her, but I'm only familiar with Hugo and that's not going to work for her.

Her requirements are basically #WriteFreely but with image upload: a mainly text focused blog with the occasional picture. Admin with WYSIWYG, everything lightweight, minimal, clean and responsive. Comments/activitypub not required for now.

After searching (a lot) I think what may be the closest to this, is the open-source version of #Known

Do you have experience with Known, or other self-hostable software for #blogging that fits the bill? Please let me know, boosts are appreciated.

#indieweb #smallweb #smolweb

growing up on the internet story time

when i was 14 years old, i made my first homepage using my mom's university shell/webspace allotment (5 megs) which was supposed to be for posting homework and email storage

there was no such thing as a profile pic in 94, but i decided that i should have a photo of me at the top of the page. i inexplicably decided that instead of scanning in a school photo, it made more sense to post a gif of some kid i found on a bbs with Night Owl cd-roms. today, i found that exact photo - it is uncredited sadly - just "boy eating watermelon"

for my bio, instead of writing about my hobbies and interests, i proceeded to fabricate an entire identity that claimed i was the captain of the volleyball team, a straight-A student, and one of the coolest kids in my school. 0/3 of those things were even close to reality. i figured - hey, who cares? no one's ever gonna see this.

a year later, my junior high school got its first internet connection - a 28.8k modem shared among 20 macintosh LC's in the lab. my computer ("information processing") teacher decided that our class should learn how to make a web page as a unit project.

i told him that i had already made a homepage ages ago, and wanted to submit that as my final assignment so i could go play Bolo instead. he asked me to show him the site.

the entire class crowded around my monitor as it loaded the page a few bytes at a time. i was feeling pretty smug until i saw the straw hat, and realized that the bio was pure bullshit. i tried to turn off the monitor but it was too late - 20 kids and my teacher got to read how this bony kid in front of them was apparently a world class athlete, One Of The Cool Kids, and future valedictorian.

i deleted the entire site the second i got home 😅

#bbs#smolweb#smallWeb

Which lightweight multi-accounts web platform (libre, I can install on my server) to publish #markdown content would you recommend?
I want something that produces simple web page (without js or heavy framework)
Each user has its own site/blog as a subfolder or a subdomain of the instance
#smolweb #smallweb

Oh snap! `YARR - Yet Another RSS Reader` has a new version and I missed it in March!
github.com/nkanaev/yarr/releas
YARR is like Feedly or NewsBlur, except more like TinyRSS or FreshRSS - you can self-host.

UNLIKE those, you can tell yarr to run at `<ip:port>`, so you can stick it at port 7666 for your reverse #proxy. And its lightweight, I run my own AND 3 other instances for fam. members on the same host accessed via different subdomains re-proxied by #nginx.

GitHubRelease v2.5 · nkanaev/yarr- (new) Fever API support (thanks to @icefed) - (new) editable feed link (thanks to @adaszko) - (new) switch to feed by clicking the title in the article page (thanks to @tarasglek for suggestion) ...

New blog post up: a brief review of Hannah Steenbock's Demonhunters of Terragon series, as it stands so far.

michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/

Also some print styling improvements, while I was at it. (It's not quite where I want it yet, but it's better than it was before.)

@Firlefanz

Michael Kjörling · Book series review: Demonhunters of Terragon, by Hannah Steenbock

Building a slow web

goodinternetmagazine.com/build

The internet can feel like it's built for speed. You join a new service and you're presented with a feed. The name tells you all you need to know. The feed is the actor. You are the thing that is acted upon. You don't control the feed. Your role is

Good Internet · Building a slow webThe internet can feel like it's built for speed. You join a new service and you're presented with a feed. The name tells you all you need to know. The feed is the actor. You are the thing that is acted upon. You don't control the feed. Your role is

The most disgusting feature of this relatively new #AI #scraper |s plague is that they are about to defile everything we like in the *good* internet.

Images with relevant #AltText? Perfect training materials for text-to-image generative models.

Static webpages? No #Anubis - no problem to scrape.

#Anubis uses proof-of-work ( #PoW ), which implies either #JavaScript or manual instructions. No, it is a good solution... Best of the worst (as if there were any good ones...)

Last days I learned that (1) #Tor has a #PoW mechanism (2) Anubis seems to somehow whitelist #lynx browser, allowing no-JS Lynx users in (a big favour for #accessibility and #smolweb ). Good (let's hope all these will persist).

so this is exactly what smallweb initiatives do a great job of:

over 15 years ago, a tiny robot tabletop rpg was designed by a group of 1d4chan users over a few years. it eventually grew into a formal rulebook, and even spawned a successful kickstarter to get a print of the rulebook printed.

the game is adorable and simple, and aside from a PDF of the final rulebook - the game went out of print years ago and all but disappeared from the web when 1d4chan shut down.

mercifully, a neocities user thought to preserve the original website thank you, singletona082 🙏

cheapietheatre.neocities.org/e

a backup of the final version of the book (free):
web.archive.org/web/2017120321

📒 The Internet Phone Book is here!
I can’t wait to receive my copy.

internetphonebook.net

- Limited Edition of 500
- 24x19 cm in paperback
- 176 pages
- Samua 100gsm (inside); Colorplan factory yellow, 270gsm (outside)
- Typefaces: Times New Roman, Courier
- Made with HTML Energy and Paged.js
- Designed by Elliott Cost
- Printed in Athens, Greece at Pletsas

Photographs by Ana Šantl