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A community dedicated to discovering and sharing blog posts from indie web authors. Could serve as a "comments section" if your blog doesn't have it. Talking about meta and posting tutorials is also welcome :)

If you don't know anything about the Indie Web, consider reading this blog post, written by a fellow community member.

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Do not copy and paste titles of the blog posts you share, try to rephrase it at least somehow (this rule does not apply to any other type of stuff you share)
Keep content related to the Indie Web
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Blog posts should be in English
No far-right authors
Titles should be titles, not some lazy stuff like a call to action ("yo, check this out!!"), a no-brainer ("Interesting post title") etc.

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Help making a lightweight blog. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by SomeBloke@lemm.ee to c/weblogs@lemm.ee

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Well I did it, I registered a domain, got a host, and my website is technically live but all I have is a single test page and only now do I realise I'm pretty much in over my head because I've never done anything like this before. Oh well, sink or swim innit.

My first port of call was bearblog which appealed to me with how excruciatingly lightweight and simple the pages it produced were. I don't want something with bells and whistles, just simple pages that load easily and can be collated in a list.

Unfortunately you can't self-host with bearblog so that went out the window. A lot of other blogs seem to require Python which I have no idea how to use... And I'm overwhelmed and honestly a little bit anxious.

I'm half-tempted to put my minor html + css skills to use, act like it's 1998 and simply write out my blog as static pages. I realise how foolish it is but that's the sort of simplicity I'd be looking for. I don't want any bloat, really.

Any advice for someone in over their head would be appreciated, thank you.

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