There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites. Unfortunately they are incredibly hard to find. You cannot find them on Google or Reddit, and while you can stumble onto them with my search engine, it is not in a very directed fashion. It is an unfortunate state of affairs. Even if you do not particularly care for becoming the next big thing, it’s still discouraging to put work into a website and get next to no traffic beyond the usual bots.

TL;DR: link to sites. link to communities. don’t just post content, but more importantly make people aware that the community exists.

if you post 10 articles but nobody knows that the community exists, that’s worth less than if you only post 5 articles but 3 people read them.

link to communities that interest you in places where people might want to know about them. sticker some link on your irl shared gardening project. maybe to slrpnk.net or sth. Sticker the links to 3 tinkering/DIY communities on your local bike repair shop.

Links are as important as streets are to traffic. They get us from A to B. don’t underbuild them.

  • korendian@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    7 hours ago

    I believe the fediverse and the indieweb need to be more inextricably linked. Imagine if you clicked a user profile and instead of taking you to their profile on the site with generic stats and posts from the user, it took you to their home page, where they can post blog updates and customize their site/profile to their hearts content.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      i mean you can already put a link to your blog in your user profile on lemmy. in fact many people do it. (i don’t do it myself because i don’t have a good website to link to)