Explore the smol web with Bubbles
All Aggregators Are Equal but Some Aggregators Are More Equal Than Others
Bubbles is a new, brilliant, blog aggregator.
Bubbles combines the power of RSS feeds with the power of voting. Of course there is lobste.rs, but that has a focus on technical publications.
Non-tech blogs
Hacker News and Lobste.rs have community voting figured out, but non-tech content gets drowned by the tech majority.
Bubbles aims to (also) promote non-tech content.
RSS and voting
Bubbles monitors thousands of independent, personal blogs via RSS. Every post starts equal. Peoples votes decide what rises.
Everybody can vote, but you need some Fediverse account for that.
As a result, truly interesting posts bubble up.
Categories
Bubbles offers about a dozen of categories to choose from.
Select the categories of your interest to get a more focused list of smol web publications.
Explore the smol web
There are tons of great independently made personal websites out there. Blogs, digital gardens, and what not.
The enshitification of the search engines makes these website undiscoverable. There is no money in it, so they will only show you AI-slop and other SEO-infested garbage.
Ignore their search results, take back the web, and start exploring the smol web!
Reach out
I discovered Bubbles through the LinkDump on 82Mhz.net.
When you have a website, consider doing something similar. Set up a Blogroll, create a links page, or be creative and create something new.
Whatever you do to let other smol websites be discovered helps! Only together we can keep the smol web alive.
Use an RSS feed reader
Don’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. No matter how you explore the smol web, when you have discovered an interesting blog, personal website or other kind of smol web instance, add it to your RSS feed reader!
Show your appreciation
Whenever you read a piece on a smol web website, give the creator some feed-back. Just a simple email showing your appreciation can make a big difference!
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Don’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read — use an RSS feed reader.
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