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The Smol Web
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Community for the appreciation and sharing of links, resources, and culture of: the smol web / small web / ~(w)~ / the indie web / or even the non-www internet (gemini, gopher, etc).
Back of a napkin definition, subject to change: if it's internet accessible and is maintained by a person, especially for non-commercial aims, then I would consider it smol. There are, however, much stricter definitions.
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- https://smolweb.org/
- https://indieweb.org/
- https://smallweb.page/
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/IndieWeb
- https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/small-internet.html
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I'm not sure if I ever thought of RSS as a full on email newsletter replacement, but it makes sense. I like email for direct correspondence, like oh someone has reached out and wants my attention even though most of the communications come in like a constant feed of updates, a drip.
The security aspect is huge too. I like writing much of my tooling myself, but being responsible for stewarding people main emails is just too much โ I can just barely start a docker container without it punching a hole through my firewall and announcing itself to the world, nevermind my keeping up to date with every single new security patch and cero date.