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WHAT IS THE SLOW WEB?

• The Slow Web Initiative
• Slow Web Manifesto Collection (yesterweb.org)
• How the Blog Broke the Web - Stacking the Bricks
• a zine for the digital disillusioned (neocities.org)
• Digital Garden
  • 🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog (joelhooks.com)
  • A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden (maggieappleton.com)
  • How to set up your own digital garden - Ness Labs
  • How to build a digital garden with TiddlyWiki - Ness Labs
  • Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet | MIT Technology Review

My Reasons to Embrace the Slow Web

• I'm too drained and tired to keep up with most social networks
• I hate how great content gets replaced in five minutes with random content. 
• Algorithms recommend me random stuff and stuff I don't care about, I don't find it as addicting as others. Maybe I'm just too much of a weirdo.
• The way I consume content isn't "the right way" and its off-putting. I'm not a hardcode stan and most social media cultivates that for profit. Great creators that don't cultivate a cult of personality suffer. Maybe I'm petty but its insulting to both creators that are intelligent, creative and genuine and us fans. Shoot the whole subscribe and be a fan culture. Sometimes I don't want that.
• Live scroll is unaccesible to me some days. Sometimes it makes me dizzy and nauseous.
• I miss the randomness and creativity of the old web. Content wasn't created for a search engine on a timetable. People made things and search engines helped you find it.
• Less harrassment.
• ~*~FUN~*~

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A Slow Life, DIY Media and the Indie Web

A Manifesto since all the cool kids have one

This isn't purely about the smol web, however it is the most visible and intentionally expressive part of me strangers will see. So what am I about? What is this space about?

My Priorities:

1. "Bad Art"
   1. Make
      1. zines (physical and digital)
      2. learn more skills like HTML/CSS
   2. Why
      1. creativity
      2. relieve stress
      3. learn new skills
      4. freedom to drop things that aren't working or that I don't like
   3. By Others
      1. Love it, pay for it, boost it, archive it
      2. Art from "the top" is not for me, not for most people, aims to instill values that propogate things that do not benefit me and mine, and a lot of it sucks
      3. There is such much beautiful art I will never see, stuff not made coporate execs
   4. For the young kid who saw the wonder and creativity of the old web and wondered what would be possible decades down the line. Most of that stuff is in the indie/diy/bad art scene, not corporate art.
   5. Links
      1. DIY Media – ~ajroach42.com - It’s not just entertainment, it’s a movement.
      2. One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
      3. You Should Check Out the Indie Web - by You've Got Kat on YouTube
      4. 🛋 SOFA (tilde.town) 
      5. LOOSE POOPS | artist collective (tilde.town)
      6. coolguy.website
      7. Home Sweet Homepage
2. DIY/smol/indie/community Web and Tech
   1. Why
      1. I'm tired of tech designed to be thrown away
         1. Framework
         2. The Repair Association
         3. LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
            1. How to Build a Low-tech Internet
            2. How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops
            3. The Right to 35 Mobiles
            4. Why We Need a Speed Limit for the Internet
            5. The 4G Mobile Internet That’s Already There
      2. Web 2.0 triggers my nausea and Web 3.0 ain't fixing it
      3. I didn't really enjoy Web 2.0 like everyone else did. Web 3.0 looks worse.
   2. Because anyone can:
      1. Multiverse
      2. Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks
      3. Status Cafe
      4. Smol Pub
      5. Bear Blog
      6. Neocities - Tutorials
      7. HOTGLUE.ME :: unique tool for web publication & samizdat
      8. https://growyourown.services/
      9. Internet Manifestos (yesterweb.org)