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

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 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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[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I mean your complaints are valid, but even if you're using a VPS, it shouldn't cost you not than $5-10/mo. With self-hosting probably even less.

We're not talking like a lemmy or masto instance here.

I have several personal websites on the small web, and people do visit. It's actually lovely.

[-] Truscape 2 points 3 days ago

I self-host my own game servers for my friends and communities, so I know it's definitely possible to run stuff on a budget. I'm just thinking a forum or blog/message board site, even for niche subjects, will get scraped to death and may outpace your initial resources allocated, so the only way to sustain that is having a benevolent owner.

Then again, I could be thinking way larger scale than what OP is thinking.

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