#smallinternet — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #smallinternet, aggregated by home.social.
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Review: RSS Parrot
★★★★★A simple Fediverse service that follows an RSS/Atom feed and creates an account you can follow from Mastodon or any other ActivityPub site.
https://kvibber.com/reviews/web/rss-parrot/
#Fediverse #RSS #Atom #feeds #mastodon #smallInternet #review
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Review: RSS Parrot
★★★★★A simple Fediverse service that follows an RSS/Atom feed and creates an account you can follow from Mastodon or any other ActivityPub site.
https://kvibber.com/reviews/web/rss-parrot/
#Fediverse #RSS #Atom #feeds #mastodon #smallInternet #review
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The Dillo Appreciation Post https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2026/02/dillo-appreciation/ #tips-n-tricks #smallinternet #web-browsers
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Offpunk 3.0 https://ploum.net/2026-02-09-offpunk3.html #software-development #smallinternet
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Finally wrote a proper #gophermap instead of just using the automatic one generated by #gophernicus.
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Finally wrote a proper #gophermap instead of just using the automatic one generated by #gophernicus.
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Finally wrote a proper #gophermap instead of just using the automatic one generated by #gophernicus.
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A Website To End All Websites https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/ #smallinternet #internet
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New blog post about how I"m using RSS feeds in 2025 and why you probably should, too.
https://blog.k3can.us/posts/2025/dec/rssfeedsin2025/
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In the 1990s, the web felt hand-made and diverse —
a place where people shared raw thoughts,
not personal brands or business or platform bias.
Maybe it’s time to rediscover that slower, smaller web again.
To seek essential, thoughtful information —
not the viral noise of likes, rankings, or social feeds.#SlowWeb #IndieWeb #LoFiThinking #SmallInternet #DigitalGarden
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Meanwhile, all my #selfhosted services are just dandy this morning! This is a useful demonstration of the value of #selfhosting instead of relying on #cloud #vps servers.
Speaking of selfhosting, I transitioned my #blog from #dotclear to #hugo this past weekend. I'm certain that I broke any existing links and probably wrecked havoc on the Google indexing thingie, but whatever, my pages load way faster now. 🙃
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Servers with Personality https://caolan.uk/links/servers/ #smallinternet #web-browsers
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Software review: Postmarks
★★★★☆A self-hosted public bookmarks/linkblogging server (think Delicious or Pinboard) that can interact with Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse. Tags and descriptions, decent search capability, and Atom feeds that you can hook up to other software.
You can follow my linkblog here: @interesting
https://kvibber.com/reviews/software/postmarks/
#Bookmarks #SmallInternet #SelfHosting #Fediverse #servers -
The offpunk-users mailing-list has suddenly seen a dramatic increase in volume. People are really starting to use #offpunk and asking questions, trying to understand how it works.
https://lists.sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk-users
I’m doing my best to answer and helping people getting started. There’s now a "tutorial" command (which is simply redirecting you to https://offpunk.net/ )
People are also asking me about #gemini
Welcome to the #smolnet #SmallWeb #smallinternet #unix , welcome to the #resistance …
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Mastodon is still my favorite social media network. I like the little micro conversations I have with the few people I follow.
Bluesky is a thing. I think it's good for folks who want to be celebrities or have wide reach. But it's a textual battle royale. Overwhelming.
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@knasman Alternate Internet? Well, There's #Freenet and #Tor's Onion pages, but if you're just looking for #smallinternet and #smallweb stuff, there's still plenty of small, personal homepages on this world wide web. From browsing a topical #webring or clicking around random sites on #neocities, there's lots of stuff to see out there.
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Software review: Lagrange (Gemini Client)
★★★★★Lagrange quickly became my favorite Gemini client on the desktop with its clean and convenient UI, stability and speed across platforms, and the mobile version works well too.
https://kvibber.com/reviews/software/lagrange/
#lagrange #geminiProtocol #smallInternet #minimalism #floss #gopher
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Software review: Agate (Gemini Server)
★★★★★A simple Gemini Protocol server for static files. Fast, stable, easy, and running the Gemini version of this site.
https://kvibber.com/reviews/software/agate/
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@APBBlue for me, #ActivityPub is like build your own #SmallInternet. 🥺
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The tyranny of the algorithm. The one last site that I couldn't tear myself away from but had one was YouTube. I recently learned YouTube channels have RSS feeds. I am finally free. There is no algorithm on my social media now. And let me tell you, I am unbothered, moisturized, happy, in my lane, focused, flourishing.
(You all are great here on Mastodon by the way.)
#socialmedia #indieweb #rss #atom #rssreader #youtube #algorithm #internet #smallinternet #fediverse #mastodon #mentalhealth -
Just learned about the #geminiprotocol. I love the idea, but I don’t know what I could possibly contribute. 🤔
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Camp.smolnet.org is a Mastodon server maintained by a group of friends who share a certain weariness of huge internet services that exploit their users. Smolnet has a love for openness, the internet, and pangolins. We hope you enjoy it. We are based in Sweden, you can use English or Swedish on this server.
:Fediverse: https://camp.smolnet.org
You can find out more at https://camp.smolnet.org/about or contact the admin @micke
#FeaturedServer #SmallInternet #Sverige #Svenska #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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The other day I watched this talk by @tomasino (thanks again, btw):
https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-83-rocking-the-web-bloat-modern-gopher-gemini-and-the-small-internetAnd cousin, I soooo fell down the rabbit hole of the #SmallInternet. Exploring #Gemspace as if there's no tomorrow 😃
If you're not afraid of #rabbithole s, check it out, it's cool!
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🚨 Attention Gemini, Gopher, & Finger fans —
Adële ( @adele ) has something to show you:
Adële joins others who argue that — we shouldn't throw out all of the HTML "baby" with the broken-web "bath water" — but that instead —
We should use a restricted subset of HTML — and in particular XHTML.
https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/@adele/110984755396680624
#smolWeb #smallWeb #smolNet #smallNet #smolInternet #smallInternet #WorldWideWeb #xhtml #gemini #geminiProtocol #gemtext #gopher #finger #fingerProtocol
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#SmallWeb and #SmallInternet are experiencing a renaissance. Making #SelfHosted, small and blindingly fast #web pages instead of platform-based lazy loading #JavaScript #CSS transition hellscapes has more benefits than just speed, #accessibility and search engine ranking.
There is a new kid on the block; #LLM #chatbots. They read the web much like #SearchEngines, #crawlers, #scrapers and #indexers do, and are easily foiled by programmatic web pages, interlaced #ads, interstitials, overlays and #paywalls.
The chatbots read the web like blind people do, through plain text. Make your site and your information accessible, and you will do great! Make the information of whatever you want to publish available in easy, clear tables instead of whatever that is that is in vogue now.
If you stop defaulting to hostile design, and consider accessibility, the information you want to publish will be available to chatbots when they advice their users.
Do you think chatbots will know about recent history and current events by reading the #news sites? Think again! If they even get through the paywalls, they are foiled by interlaced ads and other hostile design. Whatever we consider current events won't be read or learned by chatbots because we have made the information super highway into a huge pile of toxic waste where information goes to die in the complex tangle of copyrights, licenses and DRM.
The chatbots will not trawl social media either, although that would likely be a good source for data. Companies doing this sort of training won't want to take chances of personal data of non-celebrities ending up in the models.
I asked #LLaMA model for a text completion of a random thing. You know how the completion ended? "Download EBOOK ... Online free".
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CW: It's probably time I did an introduction:
I'm roughly aligned with #socialart, i.e I think an art practice that primarily aims at personal success is bullshit. I am increasingly horrified by a lot of what goes on under the aegis of digital art.
I don't really like doing things I'm good at, I prefer learning how to do things. Things I'm trying to learn about include: #lowtech, #SmallInternet, #accessibility, #disabilityjustice, #placemaking, #decolonisation, #anticapitalism, etc.
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Using a DNS SRV record instead of a DNS TXT record —
To make it so you can change the TCP-port and host of a finger-protocol request —
Seems like a reasonable modification to what I was proposing.
( #finger #fingerHole #fingerProtocol #fingerverse )
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The finger-protocol could make use of DNS TXT records.
You could use it to change the TCP-port connected to for a finger-request.
You could use it to change the host connected to for a finger-request.
This has a lot of potential!
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( #finger #fingerHole #fingerProtocol #fingerverse )
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Some other relevant tags for your thread:
https://fosstodon.org/@orangeacme/109483350342825311
#finger #fingerHole #fingerProtocol #fingerverse
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https://learn.adafruit.com/intro-to-mastodon-api-circuitpython
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The more I think about what the best next step for #PicoGopher could be, the more I believe implementing some decentralised protocol to exchange info would be super useful: what is more decentralised than a bunch of personal servers people can physically bring around with them? 🙂For this reason, I find any effort into implementing parts of #ActivityPub on small devices super interesting!
What are your thoughts about it? #askfedi #selfhosting #SmallInternet
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What is Gemini?
I have seen more than one person ask that question recently.
So here is a thread explaining — what Gemini is.
But I need to give a bit of historical context to make Gemini make more sense.
Here goes —
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( #gemini #geminiProtocol #gemtext )
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"#PicoGopher Part 6: here comes the sun", or where I harness the power of a flaming star to server gopherholes from a thumb-sized server.
gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/mala/phlog/2022-12-04%20-%20PicoGopher%20-%20here%20comes%20the%20sun
https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=gopher.3564020356.org+70+302f70686c6f672f323032322d31322d3034202d205069636f476f70686572202d206865726520636f6d6573207468652073756e#gopher #SmallInternet #raspberryPi #raspberryPiPico #SelfHosting
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The #SmallInternet should move away from Internet domain names.
At least as the primary way of addressing content.
Internet domain names —
• can expire,
• can be taken away from you,
• cost you money each year.This results in URLs breaking — which contributes to one of the scourges of the Internet — Link-Rot 🔗
We are loosing large parts of human culture , human knowledge, and human history as a result of this!
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Do you want to create your own Mercury browser, or server? —
Mercury Protocol + TLS = Gemini Protocol
Use this library —
go-hg — provides ☿ Mercury Protocol client and server implementations, for the #golang programming language.
https://github.com/reiver/go-hg
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( #gemini #geminiProtocol #geminiSpace #gemSpace )
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You could use #finger as a mirror & a CDN —
The type of #fingerProtocol request many are used to —
finger [email protected]
I.e., ask "example.com" for joeblow's content.
But you could request someone else's from a different server with:
finger [email protected]@changelog.ca
I.e., ask "changelog.ca" for the content for "joeblow" from "example.com".
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( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )
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I heavily used #finger back in the 1990s.
People are starting to use finger again!
The new finger community should be open to creating new #fingerProtocol ‘switches’.
For example “/PULL”, “/PUSH”, “/BANANA”, etc.
You could even make ‘switches’ that look like file & directory paths — “/path/to/a/file.ext”.
(Finger ‘switches’ are recognized by starting with a slash (“/”).)
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RFC-742 & RFC-1288 were always about just documenting what existing software was already doing.
I.e., the people who created the #fingerProtocol clients, servers, and other software (as well as the people who decided to use it) lead — and creating an updated specification comes later.
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.( #finger #fingerHole #fingerverse )
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Two specifications were created for the #fingerProtocol:
• #IETF #RFC742 (published in 1977)
• #IETF #RFC1288 (published in 1991)Neither of them were about creating the finger-protocol.
The finger-protocol existed and was evolving AT LEAST 6 YEARS BEFORE the IETF RFC-742 specification was written!
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.( #finger #fingerHole #fingerverse )
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One way the #fingerProtocol could be extended —
Creating new #finger ‘switches’ —
(I.e., creating new finger-protocol request ‘switches’, in addition to the “/W” (i.e., ‘whois’) switch — )
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Awesome Finger
A collection of awesome things regarding the finger-protocol ecosystem.
https://github.com/reiver/awesome-finger
( #finger #fingerHole #fingerProtocol #fingerverse )
( #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb )
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"#PicoGopher Part 5: take the power back", or where I regret not having named all of my previous posts with song names.
"Today we will finally talk about power: not the one which is abused by billionaires but the one we will unleash to freely share information with others" 😉
gopher://gopher.3564020356.org:70/0/phlog/2022-11-25%20-%20PicoGopher%20-%20take%20the%20power%20back
https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=gopher.3564020356.org+70+302f70686c6f672f323032322d31312d3235202d205069636f476f70686572202d2074616b652074686520706f776572206261636b -
History of the Finger Protocol
by Rajiv Shah
June 2, 2000
https://web.archive.org/web/20230601031958/http://www.rajivshah.com/Case_Studies/Finger/Finger.htm
(original URL, but 404'ing: http://www.rajivshah.com/Case_Studies/Finger/Finger.htm )
#finger #fingerHole #fingerProtocol #smallInternet #smallNet #smallWeb #smolInternet #smolNet #smolWeb
