"Just make something, even if it’s laughably bad. Make it yours."
Great piece by @j
this is it, folks! we are in the final week before submissions are due for GOOD INTERNET, a new print periodical magazine about all the things that make the #web fun: things like the #smallweb, the fediverse, the #indieweb, and efforts to actively fight #enshittification. submissions are open until MARCH 15.
check the submission guidelines or sign up for email alerts to be notified when we publish in may!
https://goodinternetmagazine.com
if this is your first time hearing about this, you still have enough time to come up with and write an article or complete a digital #art piece, if you're passionate about the #internet and want to write about it! :) bloggers, it's your time to shine!~
i can't wait to show y'all the incredible stories that have been submitted from all over the 'net, and some of the coolest art i've seen about the web!
thank you to everyone who's been so supportive of this project already. this is why this side of the internet is amazing. 
thank you! 
original post: https://tilde.zone/@xandra/113913277766098384
Via Porkbun's website, small price increases for certain (niche) TLDs coming April 1 (and no, it doesn't appear to be an April Fool's joke 
Great new piece by @Daojoan - Why personal websites matter more than ever https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-personal-websites-matter-more-than-ever
"Social networks came along with the seductive - and entirely bullshit - promise of 'easier publishing.' Running a website is too hard, they told us (it’s not), it’s too expensive (it wasn’t), and finding an audience is impossible (never true). In the world they promised us, backed up by a credulous media that breathlessly and unquestioningly reported on their Fauxtopian visions, we could replace our websites with their tools and thrive. By abandoning our properties for Facebook pages and channels, we could tap into a global audience with the potential to become household names on a web that would connect every human being.
It was a vision they had to sell us at any cost. Why? Because the venture capitalists who funded these platforms - Facebook, Twitter, and their ilk - needed a return, one way or another. The path to that return was forced centralization, bringing in every creator and user and eliminating any other channel or option."
I was so inspired by @sophie's excellent write-up that I wrote one of my own. It mostly echoes what she said, since we share a similar history with the web, but I wanted to add my own perspective.
The true form of decentralization through the bliss of personal websites
https://rolle.design/the-true-form-of-decentralization-through-the-bliss-of-personal-websites
this will likely be a recurring reminder as the weeks go by, but i'm so excited about this project. i have to share! (this is the first time i've been nervous to announce something on this side of the web!)
i'm combining my 10 years of journalism experience with my love for the #indieweb by launching GOOD INTERNET, a regular periodical magazine in both print and digital formats. and this is a non-profit, completely independent endeavor!
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/
ultimately, Good Internet will cover a lot of different aspects of the small web: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting #enshittification, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. it will be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned indie web travelers!
the #smallweb can be hard to keep up with if you aren't "plugged in," especially if you want to find other hobby website owners, folks coding for fun, weird web projects, or artists taking back their digital ownership. it's overdue that this side of the web has an analog publication!
having a central publication about the decentralized parts of the personal web makes me even more excited to share this hobby with those who might not even know about it--all within beautiful, high-res, high-quality pages.
the idea here is to have a physical celebration of this hobby in addition to being informative, helpful, and accessible.
consider signing up for email notifications when we launch the first issue in may 2025:
https://goodinternetmagazine.com
(if you're interested in #writing an article or op-ed about this side of the web/personal websites, coding an interactive article, or want to know what that even means, send an email to hello@goodinternetmagazine.com! taking pitches for may 2025!)
Such a beautiful way of separating external and internal hyperlinks at @joshavanier’s site https://avanier.dev.
Internal links are underlined, external links are overlined.
Even though I’ve never come across this before (that I know of), it intuitively made immediate spatial sense (to me).
I think separating the two link types makes sense for sites that are rich in internal links (like wikis).
Would anyone be interested in contributing to this interactive guide + WYSIWIG editor that lets you make simple web pages and shows you how to host them for free?
More about the project: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/a-simple-page-builder-app/
Repo + open issues: https://github.com/stefanbohacek/simplepagebuilder/issues
Today's just full of great finds and inspiration. Super impressed with https://simplepagebuilder.app/ by @stefan and the tutorial as well. https://simplepagebuilder.app/tutorial/ #indeweb #personalwebsites #nocode #openweb
Many great points in this @pluralistic thread on achieving meaningful change through joining a movement, but I wanted to highlight this note on "infrequently updated sites":
"I follow a bunch of people via RSS who only update a couple times per year."
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113317953289922474
Not having "a lot" to say shouldn't stop you from sharing your thoughts and experiences in a blog. And you didn't "fail" if you only have one or two posts.
I mention it in the article, but one experiment I've been working on is https://simplepagebuilder.app, which lets you make a simple web page, and shows you how to host it on Glitch or Neocities.
I also opened a feature request to have something like this integrated on Glitch, so if you use it, and like the idea, go give it a vote!
https://support.glitch.com/t/a-visual-editor-for-glitch/67029
Inspired by @bw's "HTML for People"*, I'm putting together a short list of resources for making and keeping the web free, open, and poetic.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/resources-for-keeping-the-web-free-open-and-poetic/
On the topic of sharing articles on social media, I think it would be great if we had a dedicated meta tag for text that gets prefilled.
Let me see if I can explain better. 1/n
Do you have blogroll on your website/blog?
(Feel free to share links!)
"Use WordPress if you want. Use Blogger. Hell, use Frontpage 98 if you want. Or learn some HTML and CSS and type it all up in notepad.exe. Or just HTML, don't even bother with the CSS. Just make it yours."
IndieWeb vs. indie web https://fyr.io/post/indieweb_vs_indie_web
EDIT: This excellent post is by @fyr
Congratulations to this year's winners of Tiny Awards!
Main award: One Minute Park by Elliott Cost
https://sites.elliott.computer/one-minute-park/
Multiplayer Award Winner: One Million Checkboxes by Nolen Royalty
https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/
Results: https://tinyawards.net
Nice to get a brief mention in @jnv's excellent write-up on the web we've (never) lost.
"But after spending years in apps and on social media which actively discourage us from posting and clicking on links, one can get easily lost. I mean, it feels like the web became much smaller.
But the websites are still there – if you know where to look for them."
Porkbun has a great domain service over there, and today (June 21) is the last day to get a .net domain for $3.51 (for a year) during this flash sale they've been having. Not that their prices aren't always low. But that's a killer deal if you wanna make a lil site.
