Sarthak
JanaI love discovering personal blogs and websites.
No algorithm.
No competing anything.
Just a person, putting out what they want.
It's beautiful.
Wow, that took off and already reached an incredibly diverse group of people.
I freaking love it. I see a lot of you having websites linked, I will make sure to go through those :3!
My toot has completely breached containment, holy heck.
Seems like I'll have a lot of websites and blogs to check out now. Suffering from success, but I am extremely happy about this 
My own instance just rate-limited me, because I was going through all of the profiles of people that boosted the post, to see if they have websites or blogs.
WTF Mastodon? Any why is the limit hard-coded? Not cool
Okay, I compiled a list of all of the websites and blogs that people either send me or that I found in the profile links of the people who boosted the toot.
Seems like I won't get bored the next little while.
If I find anything that particularly peeks my interest, I will make sure to highlight it in some form :3
For anyone interested, I put the list of links to all of the websites and blogs I found here, if anyone else wants to go through them.
I have looked at none of them yet, so be aware, there might be anything behind these links ^^
Have fun!
https://gist.github.com/itz-Jana/eed959341a207c5bf2a3a36914e3a4ea
I will keep the list updated, when I find new ones, so probably another batch added tomorrow :)
The original post has by now reached 410 boosts and 744 favorites. It really feels like it has gone all along the fediverse by now :D
I have no muted this thread, to have my normal notification feed back.
I have collected another 70 sites to add to the list on the Gist, which is now the final list I will going through.
I hope I didn't miss anyone, at some point I felt like Mastodon was messing up the order of the "Boosted" list a bit.
I'm starting to look through the list of blogs.
This will be a long endeavor, but I've already found a few that I really like.
I hope to compile some favorites of mine in the end.
Alex Bissessur@jana I'm sorryyyyy
It was either sacrificing ipv6 or the bragging rights of it being on my own servers in my living room
It was either sacrificing ipv6 or the bragging rights of it being on my own servers in my living room
@AlexB You shall be forgiven :D
Because if you had IPv6 at home I'm sure you would be using it (*right*?) 
Bluewall@Bluewall Definitely not gonna get you unfollowed :D
It's a fair question and sadly a reason why v6 hasn't gotten much traction. There just isn't much benefit to an average user to use it. Sure there is *some* benefits, like a bit lower latency and the ability to port forward if v4 is behind CGNAT,but otherwise most people wouldn't even notice
It matters a lot more in the enterprise and I do it, because I build systems for myself that have a lot of the same properties as those enterprise systems
It's a fair question and sadly a reason why v6 hasn't gotten much traction. There just isn't much benefit to an average user to use it. Sure there is *some* benefits, like a bit lower latency and the ability to port forward if v4 is behind CGNAT,but otherwise most people wouldn't even notice
It matters a lot more in the enterprise and I do it, because I build systems for myself that have a lot of the same properties as those enterprise systems
alan 
@TheIdOfAlan It's become so many and I don't want to miss any :D
Evelyn Estelle@jana Mine is very modest, but check out the gravity simulation: https://dragonfi.github.io
Jacob Urlich 🌍@jana It is nice, but share it in your blog- blogs ARE TO READ!!! Share your butt hole with a tag #socialmedia
deutrino@jana @TheDragon the Mastodon rate-limiting code is some of the dumbest shit I've seen shipped in a long time. it absolutely cripples browsing one's favs or bookmarks as well.
Rose 🔞
joël@jana There is also this cool Streetpass add-on for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/streetpass-for-mastodon/
It saves the fediverse-profiles of the websites you visited (provided they have it on their website).
Xenia 
🇵🇸 
Doggie 
@jana I have one of those!
lunareclipse.zone/
if you like blogs you may wanna look into Atom/RSS readers
lunareclipse.zone/
if you like blogs you may wanna look into Atom/RSS readers
@lunareclipse Oh, I have. Everything that I want to keep reading consistently get thrown right into my FreshRSS feed :3
Though it's growing to a size where I'll soon need to start categorizing it, or I'll loose all sense of who I am even following :D
Alison Wilder@jana same. I wish for a search engine that filters out everything that's not a straight up, non-monetized personal site.
(hoping the Fediverse grants my wish in 3...2..1...)
@alisynthesis Closest thing I know is that Kagi has a Small Web filter, though that is limited to their own index that people can add pages to on Github, so it's kinda limited
https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
And I vaguely remember someone on Fedi creating a search engine which I think had a similar goal, but I don't remember anything else about it anymore, sadly.
Kagi Small Web | Kagi Blog
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. ----------------------- What is Kagi Small Web? ----------------------- To begin with, while there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers to the non-commercial part of the web, crafted by individuals to express themselves or share knowledge without seeking any financial gain.
@jana I actually use Kagi as my daily search engine. I've always wished the small web piece was better...but I somehow didn't realize you could contribute links.
https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb
Also found out that they have their very own StumbleUpon (RIP) clone:
And it even has an RSS feed! Cool! I'm definitely going to subscribe. It will be super tech heavy I'm sure, but it's still fun to see what people are up to.
Daniel Prindii@klausblog I have never seen that one, but it looks really cool. Thanks for sharing!
MaxTheFoxMaking sure you're not a bot!
Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
TeaJay
blindbunnyⓋⒶ@jana oh there's another human that does what I does? Follow.
Eric T. MacKnightIn the old days, blogs had links to other blogs and we followed each other that way.
Here's my blog:
@ericmacknight Every time I find a link collection on a blog that I enjoy, I get excited. Certainly a great way to discover other great content.
Come to think of it, I should probably do something of the sort as well.
Will definitely check it out!
@jana throwing my website to the mix https://danielprindii.com/. Also I have a blogroll: https://danielprindii.com/blogroll
aks@jana 88×31 button walls should make a comeback (e.g. see bottom of https://brianna.town/)
Imran Nazar ~ عمران نزر
he think my tractors faggysome good small web search engines for anybody interested:
https://searchmysite.net/
https://rawweb.org/
https://marginalia-search.com/
https://searchmysite.net/
https://rawweb.org/
https://marginalia-search.com/
Sankeiy tunes not Sankeiy@jana @FunRandWeb is a favourite fediverse account for finding such indie treats
@jana @FunRandWeb yes i am interested! :)
Hey Gus
🐜
Kasper Jordaens@jana what's even more fun is people coming up to me saying, "I saw this on your website" while I'm not tracking anything on my site. This always comes as a complete surprise ans it feels genuine. Less tracking, more fun
@kaotec Yes! I used to play around with privacy-respectiv analytics tools, but I completely scrapped them.
Sometimes I look into the nginx logs and see some RSS readers checking in, which is always fun to see, but don't know anything beyond that.
After all, I do the things I do because I like doing them. Whether someone else takes a liking to them is not super relevant to me.
Skalad@jana "putting out what they want." Absolutely. Even if the subject matter doesn't interest me, genuine enthusiasm is wonderful.
Off The Books@jana maybe you’d be interested in my crazy hand coded, *zero-dependency site.
* Node is a dev dependency for building the pages/RSS for the blog, but I’m using a homegrown generator that uses eval and template strings to render the static pages. 🤪
@OffTheBooks I surely am! Currently compiling a table of all of the sites from people that interacted with this post, so that I can then check them all out at my own pace :3
shellsharks
@shellsharks Oh, very cool, I will check it out!
crazyeddie@jana My blog is constantly being deleted and rebuilt. I'm actually completely redoing it again right now. It's at strange-crew.dev -- it's a technical blog.
One blog I keep running into that really impresses me is this one: https://www.themarginalian.org/
It's about literature mainly and it's really interesting any time I've read it.
