Appreciation for the small web

I’ve increasingly been introducing the small web to my daily reading. The small web is a loosely defined concept, partly an attempt to refocus the internet on old school technology, on text websites with less or no JavaScript, and a mix of reactions against the increasing centralization and commercialization of the internet. Part of it is just regular people writing and creating communities for the joy of it, because they want to, rather than in the pursuit of profit, thought leadership, or followers. You can find the small web in Bubbles, Kagi small web, and web rings or blog aggregators like https://ooh.directory/ or https://indieblog.page/. There’s Bear blog, which combines publishing and hosting of simple text blogs, and community. These aggregators are great for discovering blogs, that you can then “subscribe” to using the small web technology of RSS/Atom feeds. It’s not hard to set up (although some companies beg to differ) and most blogs have feeds. I set up Miniflux on a VPS a…