I have been playing around with https://neocities.org/ and https://techrights.org/gemini/ and found some gemini/gopher links that were pretty cool. I was wondering if we had a community for “small web” sites. AKA sites that are maintained by a small collective or individual hosters.? Or just people wanting to have fun online again?

EDIT: Thanks everyone!

I went ahead and created a super-feed for the communities that were identified below:

https://piefed.social/f/smallweb

~smallweb@piefed.social

If your on piefed, you can subscribe. to the feed.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
    3·
    5 days ago

    I mean your complaints are valid, but even if you’re using a VPS, it shouldn’t cost you not than $5-10/mo. With self-hosting probably even less.

    We’re not talking like a lemmy or masto instance here.

    I have several personal websites on the small web, and people do visit. It’s actually lovely.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      5 days ago

      I self-host my own game servers for my friends and communities, so I know it’s definitely possible to run stuff on a budget. I’m just thinking a forum or blog/message board site, even for niche subjects, will get scraped to death and may outpace your initial resources allocated, so the only way to sustain that is having a benevolent owner.

      Then again, I could be thinking way larger scale than what OP is thinking.