Is there a good "small web" community here on lemmy/fediverse? (piefed.social)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I have been playing around with https://neocities.org/ and https://techrights.org/gemini/ and found some gemini/gopher links that were pretty cool. I was wondering if we had a community for "small web" sites. AKA sites that are maintained by a small collective or individual hosters.? Or just people wanting to have fun online again?

EDIT: Thanks everyone!

I went ahead and created a super-feed for the communities that were identified below:

https://piefed.social/f/smallweb

~smallweb@piefed.social

If your on piefed, you can subscribe. to the feed.

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[-] nimble 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Do you have a list of communities by topic or do you have an encyclopedic brain? Or just know what to search? I'm always impressed seeing you post in such a variety of places

Regardless, thank you!

[-] cm0002@piefed.world 8 points 2 days ago

I just do a classic search for keywords based on whatever in posting to find the closest match and generally avoid "catchall comms". For example, if I'm posting an article talking about newly discovered animal behavior, instead of shoving somewhere like !interestingasfuck@lemmy.world id put "animal" in the comm search bar and see what comes up which would lead me to !ethology@mander.xyz

Though it works better on lemmy.world than PieFed.world because PieFed isn't nearly as federated with remote comms as lemmy.world is, so sometimes I go back to lemmy.world or use Lemmyverse.net to look up and then back to PieFed.world to subscribe to it

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