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RSS isn’t dead and the indie web still exists. It’s just overshadowed by the gross annoying advertiser-owned corporate web that gets all the attention. If eve

by sneak 2y ago

RSS isn’t dead and the indie web still exists. It’s just overshadowed by the gross annoying advertiser-owned corporate web that gets all the attention. If everyone who complained that RSS is dead deleted their Facebook and Instagram and Gmail and Twitter, the problem would be solved in a week.

verticalscaler 2y ago
What is dead may never die! RSS is only resting. One of these days it will muscle up to those bars and voom. I support you 100%. Could you, erm, point me towards this indy web?
- sneak 2y ago
  I’m actually working on a project right now that is the perfect answer to this question. In the meantime, start with this: https://blogs.hn/ https://blogs.hn/
  - renegat0x0 2y ago
    https://nownownow.com/ https://nownownow.com/ https://searchmysite.net/ https://searchmysite.net/ https://omg.lol/ https://omg.lol/ https://ooh.directory/ https://ooh.directory/ https://aboutideasnow.com/ https://aboutideasnow.com/ https://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/ https://tildeverse.org/ https://tildeverse.org/ You can also find pages using internet meta in my project https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database I use 'personal' tag to identify personal blogs.
    - sneak 2y ago
      I don’t see contact info on your HN profile or GitHub profile. Please contact me, I am working on a similar project to the Internet Places Database and would like to collaborate.
- kreddor 2y ago
  Another one worth checking out: https://search.marginalia.nu/ https://search.marginalia.nu/
- Moldoteck 2y ago
  aside from what others provided: https://kagi.com/smallweb https://kagi.com/smallweb
- manuelmoreale 2y ago
  Shameless plug: https://peopleandblogs.com https://peopleandblogs.com People are still posting on their own websites and the independent open web is still alive and doing fine.
dewey 2y ago
Deleting the services where my friends and communities are these days isn't going to bring RSS back to glory days. Not everyone has to use RSS as long as services and blogs I'm interested in still offer RSS and new RSS apps are being developed and maintained (And there's a lot of great ones on all platforms!).
- nehal3m 2y ago
  You're right, axing all your connections at once will leave you an island. But we can do better. I'm hosting some metal in a cheap colo that runs a few VMs with a Matrix home server, Jitsi and NextCloud. Slowly but surely I gave up all the platforms mentioned in your parent and made it easy for people to join. I have a techie friend who helps me evangelise to our mutual friend group and we share the maintenance work and bills. There are amazing online communities that build the software, and then more amazing communities that automate almost all the work away. Nowadays you can fire an Ansible script at a VPS and bob's your uncle. The technical work is mostly done; we're there, we can do (edit: okay almost) anything big tech can for very little money. That was never the problem. The problem is the stickiness of the big platforms. They have the network effect going for them, their UX designers generally do a better job of making sure anyone can jump on almost instantly, and most of all, the big players have staying power. We can grow an organic internet. The tech is there and we can show our peers that a non-enshittified (un-enshittified?) world is possible. All we need to do now is stay in the game for the long haul. Our little community is tiny and we don't need the growth curve SV has been chasing for the last two decades. We don't care about conquering the market. It just needs to be there. So if you host anything where you have the final say just offer the option and I'm pretty sure the people that care will form a community around it. It's working for us.
  - dewey 2y ago
    > The technical work is mostly done But only for very technical users who want to invest the money, time and energy into running things themselves. Usually people also don't think what happens if from one day to the next they'd not be able to maintain it. Personally I'd not want to be responsible for data my friends put into my selfhosted NextCloud instance.

by sneak 2y ago

verticalscaler 2y ago

What is dead may never die! RSS is only resting. One of these days it will muscle up to those bars and voom. I support you 100%. Could you, erm, point me towards this indy web?

sneak 2y ago
I’m actually working on a project right now that is the perfect answer to this question. In the meantime, start with this: https://blogs.hn/ https://blogs.hn/
- renegat0x0 2y ago
  https://nownownow.com/ https://nownownow.com/ https://searchmysite.net/ https://searchmysite.net/ https://omg.lol/ https://omg.lol/ https://ooh.directory/ https://ooh.directory/ https://aboutideasnow.com/ https://aboutideasnow.com/ https://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/ https://tildeverse.org/ https://tildeverse.org/ You can also find pages using internet meta in my project https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database I use 'personal' tag to identify personal blogs.
  - sneak 2y ago
    I don’t see contact info on your HN profile or GitHub profile. Please contact me, I am working on a similar project to the Internet Places Database and would like to collaborate.
kreddor 2y ago
Another one worth checking out: https://search.marginalia.nu/ https://search.marginalia.nu/
Moldoteck 2y ago
aside from what others provided: https://kagi.com/smallweb https://kagi.com/smallweb
manuelmoreale 2y ago
Shameless plug: https://peopleandblogs.com https://peopleandblogs.com People are still posting on their own websites and the independent open web is still alive and doing fine.

dewey 2y ago

Deleting the services where my friends and communities are these days isn't going to bring RSS back to glory days. Not everyone has to use RSS as long as services and blogs I'm interested in still offer RSS and new RSS apps are being developed and maintained (And there's a lot of great ones on all platforms!).

nehal3m 2y ago
You're right, axing all your connections at once will leave you an island. But we can do better. I'm hosting some metal in a cheap colo that runs a few VMs with a Matrix home server, Jitsi and NextCloud. Slowly but surely I gave up all the platforms mentioned in your parent and made it easy for people to join. I have a techie friend who helps me evangelise to our mutual friend group and we share the maintenance work and bills. There are amazing online communities that build the software, and then more amazing communities that automate almost all the work away. Nowadays you can fire an Ansible script at a VPS and bob's your uncle. The technical work is mostly done; we're there, we can do (edit: okay almost) anything big tech can for very little money. That was never the problem. The problem is the stickiness of the big platforms. They have the network effect going for them, their UX designers generally do a better job of making sure anyone can jump on almost instantly, and most of all, the big players have staying power. We can grow an organic internet. The tech is there and we can show our peers that a non-enshittified (un-enshittified?) world is possible. All we need to do now is stay in the game for the long haul. Our little community is tiny and we don't need the growth curve SV has been chasing for the last two decades. We don't care about conquering the market. It just needs to be there. So if you host anything where you have the final say just offer the option and I'm pretty sure the people that care will form a community around it. It's working for us.
- dewey 2y ago
  > The technical work is mostly done But only for very technical users who want to invest the money, time and energy into running things themselves. Usually people also don't think what happens if from one day to the next they'd not be able to maintain it. Personally I'd not want to be responsible for data my friends put into my selfhosted NextCloud instance.