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A World-Wide Web made by real people, for real people, instead of profit-seeking corporations selling ads and hunting for your attention. Human-scale solutions and technology.
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Is there a smolnet search engine/search aggregator for multiple protocols at once? (gemini, gopher, nex, etc) β I was wondering if there were a multi smolnet protocol search engine I could set as default for Lagrange.
π¬ 5 comments Β· Jun 20 Β· 2 weeks ago
Help me figure out titan please? β I wrote a link like titan://localhost/file;size=0; and according to the titan's specification this is supposed to mean "file deletion". And technically it works, but when I press the link in Lagrange it opens up the file upload dialog anyway. Is it a Lagrange-specific behavior or am I missing something?
π¬ 15 comments Β· Feb 04 Β· 5 months ago
Thoughts on nomadnet as gemini competitor? β I've spent almost the whole day researching reticulum and nomadnet, and here are my thoughts: I initially was interested in it to see how hard it is to host your own pages over it, configure and connect to the whole thing. However, the whole stack is written primarely in python (that scares me in terms of reliability because no offence but python is a trash language for that purpose), and clients are bretty basic. There's no search on page...
π¬ 29 comments Β· 4 likes Β· Feb 01 Β· 5 months ago Β· #nomadnet π³οΈ #reticulum
My Gemini Capsule on Ctrl-c β Not exactly a new Gemini Capsule. However I had left it in updated for a while, so it is new in that I finally dusted off and have been trying to review links and keep it updated. Originally it was hosted on flounder.online both because free, and flounder gas an unbuilt https proxy to host Gemini content. now it is on ctrl-c.club. I have tried to keep to the idea that Gemini needs content that isn't about Gemini on it. [gemini link] in addition to my blog entries...
π¬ 5 comments Β· 1 like Β· Jan 22 Β· 5 months ago
Is there a SmallWeb service for identity? What's the smallest viable protocol? I'm thinking if I use the same cert on two sites, and I voluntarily publish two triples (username/site/cert) to an identity service, then it should be possible. If someone knows me on Site1 and they log in to Site2 they could find out my user name on Site2. I can think of a couple of twists to keep people from just harvesting all the data willy nilly. Is there someone like that already? Or a decent proposal?
π¬ 7 comments Β· 2024-11-10 Β· 8 months ago
Small Internet protocol roundup β [gemini link] Mentions gemini, mercury, spartan, and titan, in addition to several others I had not heard of. Found on tilde.news Update: I should have mentioned that the text in question was authored by zzo38. The linked version is a copy available over gemini.
π¬ 6 comments Β· 6 likes Β· 2024-09-07 Β· 10 months ago
slcl 0.3.0 release β I have just released slcl 0.3.0. This version provides several bugfixes and improvements from libweb 0.4.0 and fixes a bug when uploading files. It is recommended to upgrade existing instances to the lastest version.
π¬ 7 comments Β· 1 like Β· 2024-08-22 Β· 11 months ago
Eploring Gopher β Hi guys, since Gemini I heard about Gopher so many times but I've never dug into a Gopher hole... Can you share with some Gopher holes to learn and understand more about it? Thanks... π
π¬ 2 comments Β· 2024-06-22 Β· 1 year ago
Running Gemini and HTTP from a 12US$ SBC β I am proud to have migrated my Gemini capsule and web blog into an Orange Pi Zero that I bought years ago and never really knew what to do with because it was so underpowered. However, hosting both protocols is requiring only a handful of megabytes of RAM, so I am eager to think about more use cases for it!
π¬ 9 comments Β· 11 likes Β· 2024-06-03 Β· 1 year ago
post-web zine vol 1.1 β I stumbled upon the Post-Web Zine. Its authors clearly want out of the status quo web. Notably, they also see "web3" and related efforts as insufficiently concerned with interoperability. I think folks interested in permacomputing and the smol web might find something interesting here.
π¬ 5 comments Β· 3 likes Β· 2024-05-27 Β· 1 year ago
Looking for an alternative, smolweb inspired, web browser... π β Hello folks, I am currently using LibreWolf but unfortunately it is still Firefox. I tested other alternative browsers and the best one I found has been: Surf; however it didn't match all my needs, which are: smaller footprint fast & light, alternative UI toolkit tab support ADS & Tracker block sock5 support easy bookmarking JavaScript support Usually lightweight browsers, like Dillo, does not support JavaScript therefore it is...
π¬ 45 comments Β· 2 likes Β· 2024-05-25 Β· 1 year ago
Analytics for the smol web and geminispace β Is there a software for analytics that is suitable for the smol web and geminispace? Something as simple as analyzing Nginx/Molly Brown logs and building static HTML with charts, maybe using client-side JS, and running periodically with Cron. Preferably to be in the Debian repositories, but I also consider other options. Free and open-source, of course. I am able to create something like this myself, but I hope to save time and get something well...
π¬ 4 comments Β· 2024-02-18 Β· 1 year ago
Which parts of the web want saving? Which can we do without? β Letβs have an unrealistic hypothetical here. Suppose the http web were replaced entirely by a new protocol (or maybe set of protocols?) which allowed for client side scripting, unrestricted styling, and all the other aspects of the web which make it distinct. Except this time, everything was being built from scratch, with person-first values in mind, like privacy, accessibility, ease of use, etc. The designers of this protocol are...
π¬ 24 comments Β· 2 likes Β· 2024-02-18 Β· 1 year ago
Question about the Small Web β I'm not sure about a lot of the benifits of the small web. Like there's nothing to stop web crawlers from mining data and using LLMs to associate a user name to a legal name, there's very few people that share the same life story. I bet the archives in Textfiles.com has pointed what a kid said 35 years ago to his late 40's legal name by some Pinkertons. There's also nothing we can do about if one day there's spam like there's Spam in usenet now. There's also...
π¬ 17 comments Β· 2024-01-14 Β· 1 year ago Β· #bloat #privacy #spam
A humble website list (An interstring experiment) β Like many people here I suppose I'm feed up with the "current" state of the web. Tracking is ubiquitous, you have no expectation of privacy and search results are most of the time utter crap. So I started to simply make manually a list of website I find interesting. I just enter them in some very simple cloud note app so I can get them whenever I need to. In a way its similar to bookmarks but I prefered the "full page" list experience, and...
π¬ 2 comments Β· 5 likes Β· 2024-01-13 Β· 1 year ago
superTXT β so I'm trying to wrap my mind around this SuperTXT protocol but I'm just not understanding it all that well. It seems to be a version of gemtext that is accessed via SSH based tools. I haven't tried the graphical browser but was wondering if this is the basis of it?
π¬ 24 comments Β· 1 like Β· 2024-01-09 Β· 1 year ago
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