Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes(theindex.fyi) I saw a comment here about how there are so many indexes of indie sites, blogs, etc but there wasn't an index of all the indexes. So I built it. It doesn't require a log in, just go browse! I've curated about 30 or so, but there is a submission form if there are ones I am missing. Also happy to take UI improvements because I am not great in that area! |
I have a very similar list:
- indieblog.page, gossipsweb.net, html.energy, yesterweb.org, xn--sr8hvo.ws, personalsit.es, readsomethinginteresting.com, ooh.directory
- indieweb.org, handmade.network
- 1mb.club, 512kb.club, 250kb.club, 10kbclub.com, 1kb.club
- no-js.club, js1k.com, js1024.fun
- nocss.club
- uses.tech, nownownow.com, aprilcools.club
- whimsical.club, brutalistwebsites.com, spaghetti.directory
- neocities.org
Not sure if these are all still online since it's an old list
"Are there any indexes which index all of these too?" - (comment written by me at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069558)
I am not exactly sure if it was my comment itself which helped in it but no matter what, this is exactly what I was talking about and I am so glad that you made it!
Really awesome work! Definitely gonna add my blog site into a few of these and just gonna scroll it, ah this feels so good, i really appreciate your effort and I hope more people share even more indexes and it becomes an even more complete index of all indexes and we preserve the spirit of the open internet! This feels really good to me! :-)
I am right now thinking of connecting all these indexes within the list as much as I can into rss files and going to hopefully tinker around with some rss with all these indexes listed within your website and this has certainly brought me a bit of hope regarding the open internet if enough people use such indexes or index of indexes :-D
Edit: The rss section within your website has been really helpful in finding websites which are doing what I am talking about and so many other things, its been so good delving in these things and I find it really nice :-)
Nice project also! Bookmarked.
In the same vein; I stumbled upon Wander (pun intended) by browsing a HN post from yesterday. I really like that take on discovery of smaller curated websites. https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#readme
I'm always amazed when people go through the trouble of adding a light/dark theme switcher rather than just respecting the user's system preference with `prefers-color-scheme`[0].
[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...
Like I prefer to read prose and literary website content in light mode while keeping my OS in dark mode.
Admittedly it's a niche use case.
https://blogroll-network.alexsci.com/blogrolls/
I'd recommend looking at anything with "planet" in the name, there are a bunch of tech communities that manage community feeds and they are high quality. There are also a ton of personal blogroll recommendations via micro.blog too.
And https://brisray.com/web/indiedirs.htm, which has some other great indieweb indexes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089823
I also have a separate list of my favorite parts of the internet I plan to eventually turn into something like this: https://wilderness.land/ (my inspo)
A way of saying "you know what, I've seen what Google has wrought, but they had some good ideas and utility at the start so I'd like Kagi to still crawl my site but no one else".
I don't know if that's even technically possible.
* I say Kagi here since they're the most prominent one I know of that are thinking about this problem. I am aware that that they too can change in the future.
At least this way the site owners get to choose their monopoly master. So in a way it's democratized. If Google can be blocked successfully (big IF), then Kagi can as well if they change their tune.
I'm hoping one day the entire internet forks
It would just have one link to this site.
I've added three :)