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I’d like to offer an alternative: people who still write on personal blogs and like to interact with each other.

https://ooh.directory is constantly growing if you want to look for things to read.

https://kagi.com/smallweb Is a fun alternative way to discover new content.

I started a series almost a year ago to help people discover interesting humans and their blogs: https://peopleandblogs.com/

Bearblog has a discovery section: https://bearblog.dev/discover/

The spirit of the old web is still alive and thriving in places that are now no longer mainstream. It takes some effort to find them but great sites are still out there.

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I'll add some more "small web" links, for those interested. Thanks for yours!

* https://search.marginalia.nu/

* https://wiby.me/surprise/

* https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/

* https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3hn0a7/what_smal...

EDIT: and because this one just brings me joy, that it exists, with such excruciating detail (:

* https://www.trilobites.info/

If I'm gonna be honest, I never liked blogs. Never liked reading them and never liked the idea of writing one.

Forums were the cornerstone of the old internet and more or less completely extinct today.

And that’s totally fine. Forums are still out there and still a viable option.

> https://kagi.com/smallweb Is a fun alternative way to discover new content.

Thanks for this. It's the best thing since webring. I recently switched to Kagi. I didn't know they were patrons of the spirit of the old web too. That makes me even happier to be giving them my money.

As others have noted before, [0][1] the ideals of the 'small web' movement are essentially just a subset of the much older IndieWeb movement, which is more deserving of the credit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24269071

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790502

One more:

https://www.leanternet.com/

(Scroll all the way down; HN is mentioned first).

Great list until

> 8. Ads can be good

No they absolutely cannot. Ads skew the incentives whether they are intrusive or not. Also the entire point of ads is to get the user to do something aside from his own goals so they are in direct opposition of point 1.

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