Elena. (she/ her)
One of the first pages I look for when I visit a personal website is "Links". A good links page is like a web directory without being a web directory. It's amazing what you can find there. The web is fucking amazing!

🤔 Maybe I should add a section to my own links page called "Other poeple's links pages". That could be fun. I think I'll actually do that.

#personalWebsite #personalWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb
Mar 25 at 7:11amWeb
Show threadAndreas (82MHz)1d ago
@theresmiling
Linkception! 😁
Do it, I like the idea 😊
Show threadElena. (she/ her)2h ago
@82mhz Linkception! Haha, that's a good title.
(I still haven't seen the film though! 🫣😅)
Show threadhackbyte #antifa #friendica 13HB123h ago
@theresmiling Maybe try to establish "link-rings" ... like the webrings of old times. ;)
Show threadElena. (she/ her)2h ago
@[email protected] There are hundereds of webrings already. But this one would be a fun one. 🤔
Show threadmemo21h ago
@theresmiling it's always fun to have others' buttons on your own page. It creates an interstected network of some sort.
Show threadElena. (she/ her)2h ago
@serimemo Exactly. That's the great thing about the web, isn't it.
I'm totally fine with shouting into the void; or at least not getting a lot of reactions to my blog posts. That's not why I blog anyway. But links are what makes the web the web. And link hopping - or rather the good old web surfing - is so much fun.

BTW, I really like your site. I'll subscribe to your RSS as soon as I'm at my home computer again.
Show threadshellsharks20h ago

@theresmiling Gold mines f’sure! I like to think most of my blog posts are link pages given how much I tend to link during my writing process. I also have a lot of lot of pages on my site that tend to be lists of links to other things too, not just inline linking. For example, I have this link dump of other sites link dumps https://shellsharks.com/link-dumps 🤭. I also have think like a blogroll and a bookmarks page 😎

- https://shellsharks.com/blogroll
- https://shellsharks.com/bookmarks

Links are pretty great 🥳

Link Dumps

An introduction to blog-bourne

shellsharks
Show threadElena. (she/ her)2h ago
@shellsharks A link dump of links dumps. 🤩 I'm bookmarking that page - and maybe even link to it if (when) I make my list of links to links pages. 🤓

Going through the link dumps you link to is great. There are so many different ways to do them as there are people who do it. Which was helpful to see. Because up to this point I didn't think I wanted to do link dumps myself. Because my blog is hand coded HTML with no database or something like that in the background, and therefore I don't have tags (and wouldn't want them anyway), I thought that they would just vanish with time in the depth of my blog archive. But I could have an extra page where I collect the links to all the dumps. 💡
I still don't know if I want to do link dumps in the future, but at least that problem is solved now.