Neat, stuff that makes it easier to find small, independent content is great!
Others in the comments also linked aggregators.
I think what's missing a bit in the indie web, is a bit of curation. I think, it'd be great if we had something like music labels, or book publishers, that have a certain taste, and publish certain things. Or on spotify, there are these playlists where new music gets listed, but hand curated by someone with a particular taste.
I want something like that. I want something like a digital magazine, sourced from blog posts, about a particular topic. Hand curated! Not with automatic topic extraction or whatever. That would be cool to have.
Not a wide in the number of sources (yet), but I'm curating a directory/reader/search engine of personal blogs, and the "Global" view shows the latest posts across 1300+ feeds: https://minifeed.net/global
This could be an interesting answer to "what sites are like Hacker News but with more diverse topics". All you'd need is a upvotes/downvotes and a comments section.
I had a Journalism Innovation class in uni in which we had to come up with a news startup idea, and this is exactly what I pitched! Nice to see someone's made it.
I was surprised to find my blog there. I did a git blame on https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb and it was in the initial commit, so I guess I'll never find out...
It's nice to have a lot of small web content laid out like this! Some suggestions to make discovery more palatable:
- 1-2 sentence summaries for the content. most titles are not sufficiently descriptive and clicking on something un-interesting a few times is a sure fire way to get folks to churn
- checks for included feeds that they are correctly configured and the resources load in-browser (not download a random file to my computer)
I really like it! Sometimes I just want to read something random and sampling from small personal websites is a great way to discover new people to follow.
I find the small web feed too noisy without it.
[0]: https://kagi.com/api/v1/smallweb/feed
Others in the comments also linked aggregators.
I think what's missing a bit in the indie web, is a bit of curation. I think, it'd be great if we had something like music labels, or book publishers, that have a certain taste, and publish certain things. Or on spotify, there are these playlists where new music gets listed, but hand curated by someone with a particular taste.
I want something like that. I want something like a digital magazine, sourced from blog posts, about a particular topic. Hand curated! Not with automatic topic extraction or whatever. That would be cool to have.
Shameless plug: for randomly discovering IndieBlogs check out https://indieblog.page/
- 1-2 sentence summaries for the content. most titles are not sufficiently descriptive and clicking on something un-interesting a few times is a sure fire way to get folks to churn
- checks for included feeds that they are correctly configured and the resources load in-browser (not download a random file to my computer)
Unless you're geoblocking?