Dear Aevisia, I saw your article on web revival and on the Fediverse and I couldn’t help, but tell that we must have very similar motives. For instance just like you I also created a step by step guide to get people more into website building. I am currently working on multiple projects involving social networks
and I see your also doing the same, it would be great if we could help each other out.
I see you’ve worked on hard on trying to talk about these social issues as I know it can be really uncomfortable to speak out against what your culture practices from personal experience. It takes a lot of courage and I am glad you’re doing it.
A little bit ago, after the death of the yesterweb community, Eden (https://foreverliketh.is/) suggested the idea of the Personal Web, which was kind of a rebrand of the Web Revival Movement. The goal is still
generally the same, which is to encourage people to write blogs, build/explore personal websites, and share other blogs by and between each other. To help with this exploration, I’m working on this project called The Personal Web Map, where all webrings, website builders/tools/tutorials, blog builders/hosting, and communities will be present. Basically anyone who has the map can access everything and anything the Personal Web has to offer. This will be sort of community project, as I’m trying to get as many people’s opinions and thoughts about this. Link is here (under projects – personal web/web revival) https://psychcool.neocities.org/Personal%20Web%20Map%20(8).pdf and is subject to change. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I’m always updating and upgrading projects and I am extremely open to new ideas.
In any regard, I do love your website and I hope you continue going for what you believe in.
Thank you so much for your kind words and for sharing this project you’re working on! I’d be happy to help out however I can. Online liberation is something I feel quite passionate about as well and would love to see more people leave big tech for these movements. I feel like people who explore outside of big tech for the first time often don’t know where to start, and a lot of people exploring it might not be super techy either. If there’s any way we can make the process of introducing the Personal Web to be easy and uncomplicated, I feel like that could be really effective. I need to work on this section of my site a bit more to organize it because there are definitely some parts I feel could be broken down better or simplified more for newbies.
I checked out the map you’ve created and it’s such a great idea, and easy to follow! Something I’m planning to do for my own site, and you’re welcome to adopt this as well if it’s something you’d also like to do, is organizing sites together so anyone from absolute novice to advanced can easily make their own sites. Essentially, grouping the sites that are the most intuitive and uncomplicated together for newcomers, so even if they don’t have any prior coding experience or experience outside of big tech social media, they can still easily create something wholly of their own. Make it easy for folks to dip their toes into the Web Revival/Personal Web, and get a feel for how much more it has to offer than big tech’s limitations.
At some point, I’d really like to make more tutorials as well to teach what I’ve created here, with displaying RSS feeds on websites, linking to RSS feeds, and adding RSS subscribable interactive activity stream/status wall to people’s sites. Things like that are what people are really used to on big tech social media. With a little learning, the personal web can be everything big tech social media already is, and more, but without all the bad stuff that comes along with big tech. I think that would make for an easier transition, bringing in elements that are already really familiar and intuitive to folks, making RSS more normalized for following friends and our favorite content around the web, etc. and also really showing people that the personal web is anything but isolated and lonely – especially if they know where to go to connect with other people. Webrings, directories, small web search engines, RSS, etc. I’m still quite new to this movement myself, and before this year, I had absolutely NO idea what RSS even was. I’m sure most of my friends have no clue either tbh. It’s such an incredibly useful tool.
Anyways, this is my train of thought for the Web Revival section of my site. I’d love to link your personal web map here, if you’re okay with it! If you have any other ideas, let me know. 🙂 I’d love to bounce ideas off with you and work together to develop more resources for this movement. Thank you very much again, and the feeling is mutual! I’m excited to see you are working towards the same things, and challenging the status quo. I hope you continue going for what you believe in as well. You’re certainly not alone!
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Dear Aevisia, I saw your article on web revival and on the Fediverse and I couldn’t help, but tell that we must have very similar motives. For instance just like you I also created a step by step guide to get people more into website building. I am currently working on multiple projects involving social networks
and I see your also doing the same, it would be great if we could help each other out.
I see you’ve worked on hard on trying to talk about these social issues as I know it can be really uncomfortable to speak out against what your culture practices from personal experience. It takes a lot of courage and I am glad you’re doing it.
A little bit ago, after the death of the yesterweb community, Eden (https://foreverliketh.is/) suggested the idea of the Personal Web, which was kind of a rebrand of the Web Revival Movement. The goal is still
generally the same, which is to encourage people to write blogs, build/explore personal websites, and share other blogs by and between each other. To help with this exploration, I’m working on this project called The Personal Web Map, where all webrings, website builders/tools/tutorials, blog builders/hosting, and communities will be present. Basically anyone who has the map can access everything and anything the Personal Web has to offer. This will be sort of community project, as I’m trying to get as many people’s opinions and thoughts about this. Link is here (under projects – personal web/web revival) https://psychcool.neocities.org/Personal%20Web%20Map%20(8).pdf and is subject to change. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I’m always updating and upgrading projects and I am extremely open to new ideas.
In any regard, I do love your website and I hope you continue going for what you believe in.
Hey Psychcool!
Thank you so much for your kind words and for sharing this project you’re working on! I’d be happy to help out however I can. Online liberation is something I feel quite passionate about as well and would love to see more people leave big tech for these movements. I feel like people who explore outside of big tech for the first time often don’t know where to start, and a lot of people exploring it might not be super techy either. If there’s any way we can make the process of introducing the Personal Web to be easy and uncomplicated, I feel like that could be really effective. I need to work on this section of my site a bit more to organize it because there are definitely some parts I feel could be broken down better or simplified more for newbies.
I checked out the map you’ve created and it’s such a great idea, and easy to follow! Something I’m planning to do for my own site, and you’re welcome to adopt this as well if it’s something you’d also like to do, is organizing sites together so anyone from absolute novice to advanced can easily make their own sites. Essentially, grouping the sites that are the most intuitive and uncomplicated together for newcomers, so even if they don’t have any prior coding experience or experience outside of big tech social media, they can still easily create something wholly of their own. Make it easy for folks to dip their toes into the Web Revival/Personal Web, and get a feel for how much more it has to offer than big tech’s limitations.
At some point, I’d really like to make more tutorials as well to teach what I’ve created here, with displaying RSS feeds on websites, linking to RSS feeds, and adding RSS subscribable interactive activity stream/status wall to people’s sites. Things like that are what people are really used to on big tech social media. With a little learning, the personal web can be everything big tech social media already is, and more, but without all the bad stuff that comes along with big tech. I think that would make for an easier transition, bringing in elements that are already really familiar and intuitive to folks, making RSS more normalized for following friends and our favorite content around the web, etc. and also really showing people that the personal web is anything but isolated and lonely – especially if they know where to go to connect with other people. Webrings, directories, small web search engines, RSS, etc. I’m still quite new to this movement myself, and before this year, I had absolutely NO idea what RSS even was. I’m sure most of my friends have no clue either tbh. It’s such an incredibly useful tool.
Anyways, this is my train of thought for the Web Revival section of my site. I’d love to link your personal web map here, if you’re okay with it! If you have any other ideas, let me know. 🙂 I’d love to bounce ideas off with you and work together to develop more resources for this movement. Thank you very much again, and the feeling is mutual! I’m excited to see you are working towards the same things, and challenging the status quo. I hope you continue going for what you believe in as well. You’re certainly not alone!