romanzolotarev.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Today's #ScreenshotSaturday! We've started a new series on our brand new #blog called #ShiritaiYokaiShokai, where we introduce different yōkai that appear in #Hamayumishi. This time is the fearful Otoroshi! Or is that Osoroshi? Whatever it is, it's terrifying!
https://blog.nicegear.games/posts/2026-02-14-Shiritai-Yokai-Shokai-The-Confusing-Otoroshi.html
#Blogging #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #yokai
RE: https://social.lol/@flamed/116062541780670853
Thanks for all the kind messages people :) #smallweb
#indieweb boosted📝 New Post: The Guestbook Is Back
The guestbook is back, powered by webweav.ing and the 32-Bit Cafe.
Kukei.eu is pivoting to be a search index for blogs only, and this time for all the small-web blogs. Not just web dev.
We're indexing again from scratch. In the meantime, feel free to post here or to @sn your blog url (or something you love to read) and it will be added there (if @sn approves it).
Also please read kukei.eu's new manifesto:
Check out my new post!
Homescreen Mantras
The mantras that I remind myself of every day.
https://lzon.ca/posts/other/homescreen-mantras/
I wrote this article as a primer for folks on how the "social networks"* keep us locked in. If you like it, consider sharing it with a friend who is new to the world of #privacy, the #fediverse, or getting off of billionaire/US tech.
*Also, why "legacy algorithmic media" may be a better term for the Facebooks and Xitters of the world.
https://technically-good.ca/feeding-the-fire-psychology-engagement-and-algorithmic-media/
Feedback welcome, boosts of course ok, have a great weekend, and let's fix this mess! 💜
Lately I’ve noticed I mostly scroll. Even when I like something, I rarely comment. It feels performative or pointless.
I started wondering what it would feel like if a message arrived to me alone for a while. No likes. No audience. Just something I carry briefly and pass on.
I built a small experiment around that idea.
I’m genuinely curious — does anyone else feel that disconnect when interacting on social platforms?
Our inaugural #blog post is a quick entry about our exhibition at #TokyoGameDungeon 11 on Sunday and the new #Steam page for #Hamayumishi!
https://blog.nicegear.games/posts/2026-02-13-New-Blog-and-Tokyo-Game-Dungeon-11.html
On AI, craft, and building things that matter (1300 words)
#indieweb #indiewebnews #smallweb #ai #opendiscussion #posse
🔗 https://behindtheviewfinder.com/the-tool-the-craft-and-the-joy/
Ayer me crucé con este "IndieWeb Carnival", y como siempre ando buscando ideas y consignas para escribir en mi blog, creo que voy a participar.
Es una invitación a que gente con blogs y sitios personales escriba algo (en inglés) según la temática de cada mes.
El de debrero es "Intersecting Interests".
Here's my pitch for a federated bookmark manager and why it can make the indie web stronger.
https://www.rafa.ee/articles/introducing-linkblocks-federated-bookmark-manager/
"If you want to make Big Tech tremble, link out of your web property. Ask people to link back to you, and be fearless about following links. This is how we keep the web buzzing with connections and community, where ideas can thrive and be found. (If this post were an email, it would surely be flagged as spam because of all the links.)"
https://fredrocha.net/2025/05/21/small-web-is-beautiful/
2/2
📝 New Post: The Guestbook Is Back
The guestbook is back, powered by webweav.ing and the 32-Bit Cafe.
🔖 Bookmarked: The IndieWeb and Small web https://christiano.dev/post/indieweb_smallweb/
What’s the overlap between the IndieWeb and the small web?
🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/the-indieweb-and-small-web/
@openrisk This is why I bit the bullet and started on Kitten instead of just building a peer-to-peer social web app and some means of deploying it… if we want a different web, we’re going to have to simplify the stack (at least those parts that are feasible to).
Oberdada luki kirjoitukseni nettipaastosta ja jakoi kokemuksiaan puhelimen dumppauksesta: One week without a phone
gemini://oberdada.pollux.casa/gemlog/2025-12-17_no_phone.gmi
Stillgreenmoss on löytänyt uuden tavan olla perusluurin kanssa. Kiva kirjoitus tavoitettavuudesta nykymenossa https://blog.frog.equipment/dumbphone-journey-eight-month-update
#kännykkä #netti #mobile #phone #web #blog #smallweb #gemini
Someone just donated to goingdark.social for the first time.
I'm not gonna lie. running this instance takes work. Infrastructure doesn't maintain itself, storage costs money, and keeping things running smoothly isn't always easy.
This made my whole week. Thank you @lor, seriously. 🙌
I know I keep using the word “lucidness,” but that’s the big contrast I see between early online diaries and modern blogs, even when we’re talking ‘#smallweb and #indieweb spaces.
Part of this is our digital reality. I mean, detailing your routines, whereabouts and relationships on the web wasn’t crazy clever back then and even less advisable now.
Beyond that, you get a real sense that these pioneering web writers were reaching into the unknown and making up the rules as they went along.
Friends and fellow fediversians.
I'm about to finish a small gig. After that, I want to start coding the long awaited comments module for my blog engine Yottablog.
The module will allow to post comments via ActivityPub. It means you will be able to comment on any post from Mastodon, Pleroma, Akkoma, Pixelfed, and whatever ActivityPub-enabled app you like.
In addition to that, I want to integrate OpenGraph into posts, so it will display a nice card on major social networks.
Oh: and I want to finish the integration with Gemini capsules (the protocol, not the Google crap). Once it's fully finished, it will allow to seamlessly duplicate the blog into a Gemini capsule.
I set the goal in $500. This is the amount of money I need to survive until March 15th. Keep in mind I'm disabled (terminal-stage kidney disease, on hemodyalisis).
You can see my blog engine in action here. It's mostly in Spanish, but you'll get the idea.
If you want to chip in, please make a donation here:
https://ko-fi.com/beckermatic/goal?g=6
#MutualAid #FediHelp #DisabilityMutualAid #Disability #Fedijobs #SmallWeb
「 IndieWeb is about building infrastructure, while Small Web is about building community 」
https://christiano.dev/post/indieweb_smallweb/
I’ve been reading a lot of “proto-blogs” recently - stuff from when the idea of having an online journal or ‘log’ was cutting edge and inspired geeky shenanigans. It’s given me some food for thought as to where we’re at with this big old network thing most of us use every day.
I'm so unbelievably addicted to the #Indieweb / #smallweb.
To feed my addiction, I have found yet another search machine that finds non-commercial sites. Send help! https://marginalia-search.com/explore
All your personal sites are SO COOL. Drop yours below, please! twitch twitch
I finished reformatting older updates to move them to the update archives between my last post and this one.
At last, I just rolled out the redesign for the home page with a rewritten introduction! The next steps will be publishing the split-off archive pages, publishing the next Travel Logs entry, and reviewing other pages for outdated information and outdated code. The colors might still be tweaked but this is mostly finalized.
I co-own a software studio,@tooinconsistent together with @siwek and others. We build custom software and our own apps.
Right now we’re building an end-to-end encrypted app for democratic organizations. Think decision-making infrastructure that doesn’t force groups to choose between chaos and hierarchy. (Currently in alpha testing, measuring twice before we launch to avoid data loss. Come say hi if you’re into #encryption and want to help. We plan to make it #opensource, and I will post a bit about our journey.)
I’m also a mother. Motherhood clarified my beliefs and increased my confidence in myself given *gestures wildly around* the world we live in.
I care about #climate , #TechEthics (unfortunately my industry), and urbanism. I’ve come to hate cars. #FuckCars. Too many, too loud, destroying everything good about places. I choose what’s in my power: electric bike, trains, solar, walking, no car for as long as I can avoid it. Not perfect, just trying to do the least harm with what I know.
I’m renovating a 19th century house and thinking a lot about craft, longevity, and respecting what came before while adding new things. I’m trying to let that sensibility permeate into the kind of software we build, to make things that last, for a world still worth inhabiting another 100+ years from now. I’m interested in #SmallWeb, #RightToRepair and similar initiatives.
I’ve lived in five countries by accident, rather than design, and now speak just as many languages, some badly. Bună, hi, bonjour, hoi, dzień dobry.
I garden, read (mostly nonfiction, sometimes #scifi ), write when motherhood allows it, look for beauty in the chaos, am partial to green tea, dark chocolate and have a weakness for #sękacz / #Baumkuchen, and joke that we build software for a world on fire, the antithesis to whatever the tech bros are doing.
Would love to connect with parent-builders, #solarpunk dreamers, #urbanism folks, #IndieWeb people, journalists, creators, critical thinkers. People trying to change the status quo, or at least not make it worse.
Do say hello! 👋
🥳 New Kitten release
Just released a new version of Kitten that now includes JSDB 7.0.0 with its improved JSTable.PERSIST event.
Enjoy!
💕
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #Kitten #KittenReleases #web #dev #JavaScriptDatabase #JSDB #NodeJS
It's been a few years since my last #introduction post, so lets do this again:
I'm into the #smallinternet #smallweb and related tech like #gopher and #gemini and #bbs life. I'm former #navy , former #jesuit, with an interest in comparative #religion , #philosophy . I love a good #dadjoke . Um, so many more interests! #retrogames #parenting #astronomy #chess #sewing. I recently started a #solarpunk #podcast too. Oh, and I love #writing and participate in #NaNoWriMo .
Oh right, my dayjob involves #tech work including #digitalstrategy and #marketing . I use #javascript and hate every minute. :)
If I had a bajillion monies and didn't need to work I would spend my life as a muse for everyone I meet. I want to help everyone find their passions and do cool things. I like to help. I'm not sure what hashtag to use for that.
I added Octothorpes to my blog and I think they're pretty neat.
🥳 JavaScript Database (JSDB)¹ version 7.0.0 released
- *Breaking change* JSTable.PERSIST event now uses a parameter object with properties for `type`, `keypath`, `value`, `change`, and `table`. This should make listening for events on your databases much nicer to author. e.g., a snippet from Catalyst² I’m working on:
```js
const settingsTable = db.settings['__table__']
const JSTable = settingsTable.constructor
settingsTable.addListener(JSTable.PERSIST, ({ keypath, value }) => {
switch (keypath) {
case 'servers.serverPoolSize':
console.info('New server pool size requested', value)
this.updateServerPool()
break
// etc.
}
})
```
This new version of JSDB is not in the latest Kitten³ yet as it is a breaking change and I want to make sure I update my sites/apps first if needed. I should have it integrated tomorrow.
To see the simple use case for JSDB in Kitten (the default untyped database that’s easy to get started with and perfect for quick experiments, little sites, etc.), see: https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/persistence/
For a more advanced tutorial for creating your own typed databases in Kitten, see the Database App Modules tutorial: https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/database-app-modules/
For another example, see: https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb/#table-events
Full change log: https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#7-0-0-2026-02-10
Enjoy!
💕
¹ https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#readme
² https://catalyst.small-web.org
³ https://kitten.small-web.org
#JavaScriptDatabase #JavaScript #appendOnlyLog #JS #JSDB #JSDBUpdates #SmallTech #SmallWeb #Kitten #Catalyst
About 6 hours from now: https://anonradio.net/listen/
I will be guest-hosting the show this week, Wednesday 2026 February 11 at midnight UTC, giving a bit of relief to @screwlisp
Feel free to comment on this post for topics, or in response to things we say on the show.
Join the IRC-like chat, which is not IRC but MUD (“Multi-User Dungeon”), the Lambda Moo server, using telnet:
telnet lambda.moo.mud.org
connect
join @screwtape#tech #podcast #LispyGopherClimateShow #Lisp #ClimateChange #GopherProtocol #GeminiProtocol #PublicAccessUnix #Tildeverse #SmallWeb #Permacomputing #Degrowth
References to reports and articles:#BurgeonLab #WeekNotes 014 is out!
2026: Week 05/52 (Feb 2 – 8)
https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w06/
This is #9 of #100DaysToOffload
Progress: https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/
#blogging #blogs #smallweb #indieweb #weeknote #personalBlog #weeklynote #sneakers #CNY #books #bookwyrm #reading #booksofmastodon #bookstodon
#brcrawl atualizado! Agora com 475 (!!!!!!) blogs diferentes
https://guilhermegarcia.dev/brcrawl
E o topo da primeira página hoje ficou com um mastodonter: @ivanjeronimo
💖 When Robb compiled a list of all the blogs (https://defaults.rknight.me/) taking part of the Duel of the Defaults! (https://listen.hemisphericviews.com/097) craziness, he also added a feed (https://defaults.rknight.me/feed.xml) to that page he created. A feed that gets updated every time any of those 520 blog has a new post. It’s a high frequency feed, sure, but a wonderful look into the small web.
I added that feed to Feedbin at the time, and it’s one of my favorite folders to browse to this day.
#robbKnight #duelOfTheDefaults #smallWeb #hemisphericViews
☁️ https://maique.eu/posts/2026-02-07-when-robb-compiled
RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/116040189704697664
hace mucho tiempo no me emocionaba ver la liberación de una nueva versión de algún software #offpunk #smallWeb #gemini_protocol
#smallweb boostedAnnouncing the release of #offpunk 3.0
https://ploum.net/2026-02-09-offpunk3.html
#smallweb #smolnet #python #cli #gemini #geminiprotocol #gopher #offlinefirst
Recipe: Zucchini Pizza Casserole
A tasty italian bake, pretty easy and good for a weeknight meal.
https://lzon.ca/posts/recipes/zucchini-pizza-caserole/
I've also updated a few more of my recipes as well. Take a look!
#indieweb #smallweb #rss #blogging #personalweb #recipe #cooking
Now that "Markdown has Won" (because of GenAI), is it time to re-consider the #MarkdownWeb? #SmallWeb
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/MarkdownWeb
Spotted in my RSS feeds and censored here in the hope that this emailed newsletter gets to SOMEBODY: Make a F*cking Website. “It’s less effort to make a website than it is to manage your f*cking algorithm. You live at the will of big tech and they will kill you. Take back control. Own your story. Kick Zuckerberg in the teeth. That last one is a stretch goal, but I believe you could be the one […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/09/make-afucking-website/Leitura Intermitente
https://curadoria.bearblog.dev/leitura-intermitente/
#livros #leitura #blog #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #SurfandoWeb #BlogsBR @blogsbr #CuradoriaDaInternet
POSSE 1.1.2 brings social interaction syncing, webmention replies, and unified responses. Plus a teaser for ownpost.app, a native iOS/macOS Ghost authoring app (691 words)
#webmention #opensource #ghostcms #smallweb #indieweb #indiewebnews #posse
🔗 https://behindtheviewfinder.com/posse-1-1-2-bringing-the-conversation-home/
The #SiteDesign changes I’m planning for the Magical Renegades site tie into the new story being a #Webnovel.
I can put a chapter and the notes for it all on the same page. Separate trivia and notes pages came about because the format was previously a webtoon on another platform and I wouldn’t have been able to fit all the notes in the author comment section.
The redesign is still in-progress and I'll also adjust the colors to improve readability.
With this chapter, I put the commentary for each in a section on the chapter pages so it should be a smoother reading experience. I added a navigation section at the top but should try to make it more polished and visible.
Before the relaunch, I put all of the commentary on a separate page divided into sections.
I might also put any trivia in a trivia section on the chapter page instead of having a separate page as before.
Announcing the release of #offpunk 3.0
https://ploum.net/2026-02-09-offpunk3.html
#smallweb #smolnet #python #cli #gemini #geminiprotocol #gopher #offlinefirst
📝 New Post: Fresh 88x31 Buttons
I created a set of new animated 88x31 buttons for Flamed Fury using Dan's Button Creator from the 32-Bit Cafe community.
I had the privilege of penning an article for the latest issue of Good Internet Magazine!
It is all about the process of making and experiencing art and how friction and inefficiency needn’t be dirty procurances to avoid and evade.
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/rebelling-against-efficiency/
If you enjoy this article, you might consider picking up the physical print copy of the magazine, which you can buy on the site. A proper palpable paper printing of passionate prose for your pleasant perusal.
> "Many personal website owners
deliberately choose inefficient methods
for updating their sites. They write
HTML by hand, upload files directly
via FTP, or maintain static sites that
require manual intervention for even
simple changes. These choices would
be considered backwards in a
professional context, but they serve
important psychological and creative
functions"
by @vale, in the current #GoodInternet issue.
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/tDrmZKJQ2Tm9xidxbKzW2m
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://p4u.xyz/ID_45A1SP6F/1)
Un exemple pratique de l'alternative légère et éthique du petit web.
✨ La Publication d'un Article BGP sur le #Geminispace
Un exemple pratique de l'alternative légère et éthique du petit web.
🔗 https://p4u.xyz/ID_45A1SP6F/1 (🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷)
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/pUGP64mKBkChrh43prNtKD
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://p4u.xyz/ID_45A1SP6F/1)
A technical document exemplifies the small web's philosophy of minimalism and user sovereignty.
✨ The BGP Article on #Geminispace
A technical document exemplifies the small web's philosophy of minimalism and user sovereignty.
🔗 https://p4u.xyz/ID_45A1SP6F/1 (🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷)
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/2H9YWS7E8yc1WM7AkEQpsh
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://p4u.xyz/ID_45A1SP6F/1)
Ein technischer Artikel über Border Gateway Protocol findet seine Nische im dezentralen, minimalistischen Gemini-Netzwerk.
✨ Das BGP-Artikel-Phänomen im #Geminispace
Ein technischer Artikel über Border Gateway Protocol findet seine Nische im dezentralen, minimalistischen #Gemini-Netzwerk.
🔗 https://p4u.xyz/ID_45A1SP6F/1 (🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷)
The BGP article is also available on the Geminispace for those who prefer the lightweight web:
gemini://gemini.hofstede.it/bgp_routing_asn_freebsd.gmi
No tracking, no JavaScript, just text. Accessible via clients like Lagrange or Amfora.
A new issue of https://goodinternetmagazine.com means we get to read interesting articles and explore the writers’ awesome personal websites. My favourites this time around
- https://sephlow.net - a digital apartement with a view
- https://webb.page - horizontal layout ftw
- https://elpis.ws / https://web1.0hosting.net / https://old.net.eu.org - web 1.0 vibes
Enjoy!
Finished rebuilding my website. I now have a quick workflow from markdown to html (an achievement for me, I assure you). Only hosts my Journal and a rudimentary Gallery (analog gravefield stones / flora prints / multiple-exposures) right now, but I'm happy to have my own easily maintainable corner of the web again.
Plans include figuring out how to get an RSS feed up for my Journal posts, and making the gallery lighter (maybe 7mb isn't that heavy? I don't know anymore, where should my limit be?). I'm also considering starting a small Wiki section and a mountain work Photolog (forest / garden / meadow). Word Hoard too.
so i'd love an open discussion about something that i don't have much vocabulary for, if only because there are so few examples of it on the world wide web. anyone/everyone is welcome to chime in.
back in the mid/late 90s there were some attempts at turning web forums and chat interfaces into virtual worlds. beyond all of the 3d chat rooms and telnet muds, there were some 2d graphical sites like moo.ca. The Canada SchoolNet moo was a mud/moo that allowed users to add/remove/modify rooms in real time, in-browser.
snapshot archived here - click 'Web Walkthrough' to walk around:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010417181313/http://www.moo.ca/home
Furcadia went a hundred steps further and integrated a 2d tile-based world with a world editor *and* script editor, so you could build your own "dreams" (multiplayer instances) within the shared game world. the entire game was built around socialization.
both of the above games are not just fancy web chat terminals. building and decorating the game world is a critical part of the social experience. you create a dining room, put chairs in it, program the chairs to allow players to use the 'sit' command, and then invite people into your dining room for a make-believe dinner party.
we now have reddit and various web forums. they're effectively the same threaded conversation that has been around since the usenet days.
what i *don't* see anymore are graphical WWW virtual worlds built around socialization. we either lock down everything and only allow chat. are there web-based MUDs/MUSHes/MOOs that allow for both world building *and* conversation?
one project that comes to mind is @raphkoster's criminally underappreciated Metaplace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaplace
it was a little like being able to build your own 2d graphical MOO/MUD, but strongly bent towards the web. it had a scripting language and a flash-based graphical editor. i wish there was more info out there about it.
(Re)Coucou ! Moi c'est Minybol (il/any?) Ici je vous montre mes créations goofies (mais pas que), numérique, tradi, 3D, web ou vidéo, … et je partage ce que les bg's du fedi font aussi ! En ce moment je me remet au dessin et j'essaie de faire mon site web auto-hébergé J'adore les jeux vidéo, j'ai une obsession pour Deadlock (pour les persos surtout Sinon je suis rookie au Roller Derby et végan ! Je m'intéresse aussi au web et logiciels libres. Il m'arrive de cartographier sur Open Street Map ! Vous pouvez me retrouver sur mon site (en travaux) →
un bidouilleur touche-à-tout !
J'aimerai bien faire plus de fanarts (Deadlock, Twin Peaks, Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, … j'en ajouterai avec le temps) et me lancer dans les zines !
Aussi, ça fait un moment que j'ai lâché les lives mais je vais essayer de me relancer cette année.
Been a while since I've shared updates about the Smallweb Subway webring network. It's grown a lot!
If you have a website that matches one of the themes and would like to join, let me know!
https://gusbus.space/smallweb-subway
#SmallWeb #webring #webdev
Publiqué "El olvidado oficio de enviar y recibir cartas"
Una reflexión sobre la práctica de escribir cartas.
https://martinvukovic.com/pages/posts/2026/02-07-cartas.html
My article is out in the latest issue of Good Internet Magazine! It’s about using the web browser as a web design tool and how anyone can do it, no matter their level of knowledge.
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/web-design-without-design-software/
#indieweb #smallweb #personalwebsites #webdesign #html #css
New post on chronosaur.us - redscale. https://chronosaur.us/redscale/
#blog #blogging #indieweb #smallweb
I completely forgot this was happening until @amin pointed it out to me... But the new issue of #GoodInternetMagazine actually features an article of mine! It's about Markdown :3
I am a published writer now I guess, thanks for letting me participate @xandra
I completely forgot this was happening until @amin pointed it out to me... But the new issue of #GoodInternetMagazine actually features an article of mine!
I am a published writer now I guess, thanks for letting me participate @xandra
I completely forgot this was happening until @amin pointed it out to me... But the new issue of #GoodInternetMagazine actually features an article of mine!
I am a published writer now I guess
Que Bruxaria é essa, Tom Morello?
https://curadoria.bearblog.dev/que-bruxaria-e-essa-tom-morello/
#TomMorello #RATM #Musica #Music #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #SurfandoWeb #CuradoriaDaInternet #BlogsBR @blogsbr #blog