Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 3 / A touch of indiegestion

VOL 6, NO 3 ★ A touch of indiegestion. / The “indieweb” (define as you like) is having a bit of a “moment” (also define as you like) as many of us are suddenly nostalgic for the internet of 2005 (back when we were all a bunch of delightfully connected strangers and not this morass of addicted TMI-addled assholes with OPINION!S) and have found that there are still people just doing things on the web. Like, for fun and stuff. Previously there was Ye Olde Blogroll (does what it says on the tin) and Ooh.Directory (like a Yahoo before search) and IndieBlog (a new StumbleUpon). But my new favourite homepage is Bubbles.town, which is a sorta Technorati meets Digg, but also RSS with Fediverse. Simple category filtering and custom follows are nice. I don’t love “Upvoting” as a mechanic, but the user base right now is small and dedicated, so it works in the short term. (Long term, maybe only seeing upvotes from Fediverse follows or similar solves that. Human-curated lists would also be cool.)…