Interesting independent search engine I just found out about - Marginalia Search. Gonna look into enabling it as an engine to aggregate results from in some SearXNG instance, together with Stract and Mojeek, which are already serving me decently and are both independent and not pulling results from Bing or Google.

* Prioritizes non-commercial content
* Find lost old websites
* Custom index and crawler software
* Simple technology -- no AI or cloud
* AGPL license
* Filter out tracking and adtech
* No user or search data shared with 3rd parties
* No long-term retention of queries or IP addresses
https://marginalia-search.com
#Privacy #IndieDev #IndieWeb #DeGoogle

@dadmin2 yeah I see the issue there. But if you go through my feed on my instance you will also find other users. Even though I am a single user. The federation works well and having more servers would not be an issue. Follow packs and such or user directories help here too.

Finding people the old #indieweb way also by finding an identity through their own domain like the net was meant to be, eg: www.samuellison.com

I finished playing the Higurashi When They Cry visual novel series recently and wrote a review about it. Let me know what you think!



https://pixelglade.net/blog/posts/2025-02-04-Higurashi-When-They-Cry-Review.html



#higurashi #whentheycry #visualnovel #vn #retrogame #retrogaming #higurashiwhentheycry #blog #indieweb #smallweb #gamereview

This place we call the web (should be made by and for everyone)

Reminder that I write about a lot of stuff, blindness, life stuff, my author news. I never stick to 1 topic so if you wanna follow, my RSS feed is https://robertkingett.com/feed/ #RSS #Blog #IndieWeb

Looking on IndieWeb's Wiki for resources of where I see if I like blogging without having to jump to deep end. One of them they suggest is Micro.blog which I was wondering how good are they and if I decide to host elsewhere, if I can move content from mirco.blog to another blog.

#IndieWeb

Having been tagged by @shellsharks , here's my entry to the "Music Questions Challenge"

I love any opportunity to tell others about my taste in music, so I appreciate the tag 😄

So it goes, I'm tagging @cashmere_crypt , and @thraeryn to follow suit.

#IndieWeb #blogging

https://vzqk50.com/blog/taste-in-music/

A throwback to a design experiment I played with 5 years ago:

How might a visual layout tool work if the only interactions with it were "edit text" and "split canvas?"

_ _ ✁_ _ https://balintmagyar.com/layout/

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #IndieDev

As you can see from https://cathode.church/fedi-scraper-counter.html they don't respect the #NoBot #NoAI etc. Tags. And in my experience, especially online, people are rarely searching in good faith, they want someone to pick at, but the bigger issue is the above violates consent, so if I have the #NoBot tec tags on my profile, everyone of those would scrape my content anyway. The other half of this is refusing to comprehend that there are a large number of people that don't want to be other's content and want to post among their federated circle and value organic, human, growth over someone just randomly finding them. While this isn't fully me, for example, anyone can see me, but I don't wanna interact with everybody, which is why I don't have #WebMentions on my blog for example. In truth, I don't want any data of theirs on my website, period, and this includes social media replies. I'd like a one way web mention instead, where they know I linked them but interaction is on my terms not theirs, but going back to the above, the above gives examples where consent is violated. Not everyone is worth interacting with online. @miturian

"The #internet was made for connection.Today, it has been colonized by corporations. The #network itself is under attack. Many people spend the majority of their time online using silos that block outbound links to the indie web. Google’s voracious greed is undercutting the value of participating in the #openweb by transforming the labor of writers into generated “answers” rather than connecting readers with websites." (#TracyDurnell)
#socialweb #fediverse #indieweb
https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/27/the-open-web-as-gift-economy-part-4/

🔁 Reblog of Stefan Bohacek:

Reblog via Stefan Bohacek "Relational creation means recognizing the value that others have brought to you, and wanting to acknowledge it publicly. That means crediting… that means linking." #internet #TheWeb #OpenWeb #indieweb #GiftEconomy Esto es una forma específica,…

🔁 Reblog of Stefan Bohacek:

🔁 Reblog of Stefan Bohacek:

Reblog via Stefan Bohacek "Relational creation means recognizing the value that others have brought to you, and wanting to acknowledge it publicly. That means crediting… that means linking." #internet #TheWeb #OpenWeb #indieweb #GiftEconomy Esto es una forma específica, orientada a la web, de desarrollos como los marcos relacionales de contratación entre empresas como Vested Way, de Kate Vitasek…

https://santander-vela.net/2025/02/04/%f0%9f%94%81-reblog-of-stefan-bohacek/

🔁 Reblog of Stefan Bohacek:

Reblog via Stefan Bohacek

“Relational creation means recognizing the value that others have brought to you, and wanting to acknowledge it publicly. That means crediting… that means linking.”

https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/27/the-open-web-as-gift-economy-part-4/

#internet #TheWeb #OpenWeb #indieweb #GiftEconomy

Esto es una forma específica, orientada a la web, de desarrollos como los marcos relacionales de contratación entre empresas como Vested Way, de Kate Vitasek…

#GiftEconomy #indieweb #internet #openweb #TheWeb

🔁 Reblog of Stefan Bohacek:

Reblog via Stefan Bohacek "Relational creation means recognizing the value that others have brought to you, and wanting to acknowledge it publicly. That means crediting… that means linking." #internet #TheWeb #OpenWeb #indieweb #GiftEconomy Esto es una forma específica,…

🔁 Reblog of Stefan Bohacek:

I'm looking forward to today's Homebrew Website Club - Writing Edition

I really struggle with creating interesting content. I've got a lot to learn and I'm hoping to find some inspiration as well.

https://aggrippino.com/2025/02/HWC-writing-edition/

#IndieWeb

Here's my writeup for the #indieweb "Music Questions Challenge".

https://shellsharks.com/music-questions-challenge

I'm diggin' these "viral" blogging challenges. Get in on the fun!

Specifically though, I'm tagging @daemon_nova & @threebees to write somethin' up!

Cheers!

Heyo Fedi folks! Today I'm announcing the launch of my "newsletter"-ish thing I've dubbed "Scrolls". Scrolls is a weekly #newsletter / link roundup / information digest at the intersection of the #IndieWeb and the #Fediverse, with a splash of #Cybersecurity stuff thrown in there just for fun. Check it out!

https://shellsharks.com/scrolls

Direct link to the first issue: https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-02-04

Let me know what ya think, and if there's anything you'd like to see covered in the future, etc... Would love to see it get boosted about so others can check it out too!