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Clicked several times on that button and this is what I've got: - Performant A/B Testing with Cloudflare Workers - 12 Useful Tools for DevOps - Simplest alte

by mrzool 4y ago

Clicked several times on that button and this is what I've got: - Performant A/B Testing with Cloudflare Workers - 12 Useful Tools for DevOps - Simplest alternative IDs with Rails - How do I update my website using the iPad - Certified Blockchain Professional - Module 03: Blockchain Mining - Principles for the Metaverse - Overloading & Creating New Operators In Swift 5 - Is Agility Related to Commitment? – Money Flows Part II Is the "IndieWeb" basically just English-written personal blogs from HN folks now? I'd have hoped to find a bit more of a diverse landscape.

splitbrain 4y ago
Unfortunatly, it's currently heavily biased towards the HN crowd because of the sources I used to initially seed the list.
mawise 4y ago
I really like a lot of what the IndieWeb community has come up with. There is a big focus on building things yourself within that community which means a lot of the members of the community are very dev-heavy. https://micro.blog https://micro.blog seems to be the public-facing, easy-to-use platform that adopts most of the IndieWeb technology but for a non-tech crowd--very different community that you might also enjoy perusing.
rodolphoarruda 4y ago
Just for the records. I have added mine, which is written mainly in Brazilian Portuguese and has low tech content that derives from my day to day observations of this crazy world.
- weird-eye-issue 4y ago
  Is that good though? This seems to be for an English speaking audience
  - Shared404 4y ago
    I appreciate it - I know a little Portuguese, but even other languages I would support being added. Google translate is usually good enough, and there's a lot of content that is worth getting further perspectives from.
manuelmoreale 4y ago
I share your sentiment. I maintain a similar project (https://theforest.link https://theforest.link) and the vast, vast majority of the submissions I get are dev blogs, written in English. Why is that the case, that I don't know. I have two theories though. Theory one is that these are niche projects, and niche projects are discovered by people who browse the web in "unique" ways and those people tend to be, for the most part, developers. The other theory is that in 2022 web, it's developer that for the most part still run personal indie blogs. The majority of people have moved over social media or more recently on things like substack. EDIT: to add an extra bit of detail from my experience. While running projects like this one it's hard to decide what to do with sites that are written not in a language that you speak because you risk "promoting" all sorts of random stuff that maybe you don't want to help promoting. So it's safer to stick with content you understand and that ends up being English
- mrzool 4y ago
  Hey man! Been following your blog for years. Always enjoy your writing.
naravara 4y ago
I had the same observation. And I suspect the answer may be "yes." These are the only people remaining with the skillsets and inclination to maintain a personal website. The rest, if the mood strikes them to start a blog, will go for a Medium or Substack page. And even those are probably the 90th percentile users. The rest are just going to make big Facebook or Reddit posts.
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aendruk 4y ago
The sources of this database are largely outlets of self-promotion. I’d consider my own site part of the IndieWeb—I literally developed it at an IndieWebCamp—but you won’t find it listed here due to that sampling bias.
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by mrzool 4y ago

splitbrain 4y ago

Unfortunatly, it's currently heavily biased towards the HN crowd because of the sources I used to initially seed the list.

mawise 4y ago

I really like a lot of what the IndieWeb community has come up with. There is a big focus on building things yourself within that community which means a lot of the members of the community are very dev-heavy. https://micro.blog https://micro.blog seems to be the public-facing, easy-to-use platform that adopts most of the IndieWeb technology but for a non-tech crowd--very different community that you might also enjoy perusing.

rodolphoarruda 4y ago

Just for the records. I have added mine, which is written mainly in Brazilian Portuguese and has low tech content that derives from my day to day observations of this crazy world.

weird-eye-issue 4y ago
Is that good though? This seems to be for an English speaking audience
- Shared404 4y ago
  I appreciate it - I know a little Portuguese, but even other languages I would support being added. Google translate is usually good enough, and there's a lot of content that is worth getting further perspectives from.

manuelmoreale 4y ago

I share your sentiment. I maintain a similar project (https://theforest.link https://theforest.link) and the vast, vast majority of the submissions I get are dev blogs, written in English. Why is that the case, that I don't know. I have two theories though. Theory one is that these are niche projects, and niche projects are discovered by people who browse the web in "unique" ways and those people tend to be, for the most part, developers. The other theory is that in 2022 web, it's developer that for the most part still run personal indie blogs. The majority of people have moved over social media or more recently on things like substack. EDIT: to add an extra bit of detail from my experience. While running projects like this one it's hard to decide what to do with sites that are written not in a language that you speak because you risk "promoting" all sorts of random stuff that maybe you don't want to help promoting. So it's safer to stick with content you understand and that ends up being English

mrzool 4y ago
Hey man! Been following your blog for years. Always enjoy your writing.

naravara 4y ago

I had the same observation. And I suspect the answer may be "yes." These are the only people remaining with the skillsets and inclination to maintain a personal website. The rest, if the mood strikes them to start a blog, will go for a Medium or Substack page. And even those are probably the 90th percentile users. The rest are just going to make big Facebook or Reddit posts.

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aendruk 4y ago

The sources of this database are largely outlets of self-promotion. I’d consider my own site part of the IndieWeb—I literally developed it at an IndieWebCamp—but you won’t find it listed here due to that sampling bias.

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