Tech, internet, and blog related resources.
General tech links.
Linux Access is a resource hub for Blind Linux users
- the Melonland Wiki is the funnest place to learn about the indieweb.
- Marigold Town is a web host designed like a small town.
- A giant list of IndieWeb and SmallWeb resources.
- the 1MB Club has many websites that are actually 1 MB or less in size.
- A collection of text first websites and pages, also broken down into categories.
- Wordpress COM Accessibility ready themes and Accessibility ready Wordpress Org themes make your website far more accessible with minimal effort.
- Get RSS feeds finds any podcast RSS feed.
- Text Bundle makes it possible to share bundled Markdown files with images all in one format.
- FeedBase turns RSS into newsgroups.
- 32 Bit Project. Lots of good positive tech resources that tries to keep the tech bros out.
- File converter. Converts many media file type to other media formats.
- SpaceHey A social network similar to MySpace.
- SoundPrint lets you rate places based on noise level and quietness.
- Fedi Garden.
- Postmarks social bookmarking.
Managed Static site hosts or Blogging platforms.
If you want to host a website or blog but hate what the bigger platforms are doing to your blog and user experience, The below managed places are great! If you like using them, pay to get some of the extra features. They are worth it!
- Loforo is another Tumblr alternative.
- Wish Well is a Patreon alternative.
- Tilde Pages hosts static websites from git repos. More technical than most.
- PostCard appears to be yet another Substack alternative.
- Teahouse Cafe is a managed static site service that makes hosting SSG's easy for non-tech people.
- NekoWeb is a static site hosting service.
- PikaPods offers fully managed hosting for open source apps and services, some costing $1 monthly!
- Tiiny web hosting is the easiest way to host a static website until something better comes along.
- Uber Space is similar to PikaPod, but is more terminal based and slightly less managed. You find and install the software, for example.
- Web Haven hosts private blogs only. These can never be accessed publicly.
- Static website hosting provides a small, infrequently updated, places that can host your static site. Some are for free.
- Good Enough's Lab has a bunch of things that will let you host a website or a blog.
- Button Down. A lightweight newsletter service that is far less bloated.
- Post Haven allows you to have a fully featured blog including blogging by email.
- Mataroa. I just love everything about this site. It's everything I need in a blog without all the fluff.
- Blot. Turns any folder into a blog. I had fun playing with it, but I ultimately needed something else.
- ClassicPress. It's what I use because I don't like the direction wordpress is headed. Contact me for a managed hosting referral.
- Dreamwidth. An open source fork of LiveJournal with an accessibility community.
- OMG LOL. A place to host a website, email address, and so much more. Read OMG's detailed help articles.
Other managed blog and static site providers.
The below list contains similar providers but these are ones I don't use or find interesting, personally, but I'm keeping them here for others.
- Scribbles started in 2024.
- Montaigne is a lightweight blogging platform.
- AreNa is a cross between Tumblr and Wikipedia.
- Word Mogul is another minimalist blogging platform. Register and pay for Word Mogul.
- Smol Pub is another blogging platform that also allows you to publish your blog in multiple formats, such as Gemini, without you doing anything extra.
- The Midnight Pub is a space for writers to create any kind of blog/page they want. it's also like an underground digital city and does not have RSS feeds but still worth reading.
- Bloggi is fully managed. Offers a lot of customization options and is mostly accessible with some workarounds like OCRing buttons. Can be used.
- Bearblog is great.
- Micro.Blog. while I dislike the focus on Micro Blogging, you can make this work as a personal website. It's not free.
- WriteFreely. The flagship instance is Write As, which has more features, but is not free. This has some major accessibility problems though so try it only if you're willing to work past the accessibility failures.
- Telescope is a kind of Medium alternative that has fully managed options. When I tried it, many edit fields weren't labeled.
- BlogStatic offers fully managed blogs but BlogStatic is not free.
- Ghost is popular but is not accessible, at all, to blind bloggers.
- Neocities can be used to make a blog but it is more for building websites.
- Ichi Cities is another place that offers blogs and personal websites/journals.
Small search engines.
The below search engines focus on the IndieWeb and the Small web.
- Search my Site is a search engine that crawls small websites.
- I Web directory has blogs and more.
- Curlie is an open database of topics.
- Marginalia favors text based websites.
- wiby.me is a small search engine that focuses on small websites.