Why not both? I love my site and always work to make it unique. But I also like to write and have “useful” content. Check this out to find more cool things on the IndieWeb https://shellsharks.com/indieweb#explore-the-indieweb
I’ve always considered that I make my personal site for me and write for my own knowledge management. So a lot of my writings are guides on how to do something so I won’t forget.
I’m also not a great writer so I don’t know if I would want the wider internet looking at my stuff
Yeah that’s definitely how I approached my site to begin with. A. a place for me to write about stuff I personally want to remember and go back and look at. and B. a place where I could share information I have that I repeatedly tell others. Over time though, I found that people did indeed like to read what I had to say and found it useful. This is always a bit shocking for people who write, it’s a great feeling to know others read your stuff haha. I think I’m an OK writer but I certainly have a unique-ish style. The world needs more indie writers with unique voices and styles. Too much of the Internet has become SEO farming trash and AI generated nonsense. Us “real”, authentic humans have to take it back.
I absolutely agree on that last point. The web has become so SEO and algorithmically focused and that’s why I’m so all in on the fediverse to put power back into the hands of the people and not whoever can use an LLM to crank out content to exploit the algorithms
When I’ve got some time to kill, I like to browse kagi.com/smallweb/ occasionally. It’s sort of a curated random list of personal blog posts.
That’s pretty cool. I’ve recently started a little blog thing myself too. It’s pretty shit but I think I’m getting the hang of it. Looking at other blogs certainly help as well.
Blog: https://liluzibird.github.io
Rss feed: https://liluzibird.github.io/index.xml
Edit: hmm my rss feed is cut off for some reason. Might need to find a way to fix that.
I read about your home partition troubles. I ran in to that recently as well. Similarly I thought I would quickly try stable diffusion. Ended up not being as quick as I had hoped. I had to boot gparted and resize root and home. I had done that before at some point; but I keep forgetting how to do things. I was unsure if it is safe to do that without the latest version of gparted, so to be safe I redownloaded it and updated my system as well. Of course I have some old Nvidia hardware that tend to make my upgrades painful, so that took not so little time too.
I’m not really sure why having a separate home partition is even beneficial to begin with. Next time I make an install, I might just go without that.
Rofl these are great.
Came here to suggest exactly this. I’ve been really enjoying it. It’s like a priority version of StumbleUpon from back in the day
I found this search engine that helps find non commercial sites. www.marginalia.nu
Might be useful for finding those kind of sites again.
Intersting, I searched for myself and didn’t find myself but other people related to the Indieweb community mentioning me there.