Offgrid Holdout

My small outpost beyond the algorithmic frontier.

Tag: smallweb

Where Are All the Americans? Fediverse Adoption and the Missing US Crowd

Spend enough time poking around Mastodon instances, looking at who runs the bigger ActivityPub servers, or reading about governments experimenting with…

activitypub, decentralizedsocialmedia, digitalsovereignty, smallweb, fediverse, mastodon

Federated space and the new gatekeepers

I really thought that I had found a viable home. A place where I could write to my hearts content and maybe actually have it viewed by someone. The #smallweb…

gatekeeping, gemini, gopher, phlog, smallweb, federated, gatekeepers

Another big shout out to Gemcities users!

I started GemCities at the beginning of March 2026. A mere five months ago. I had started really getting into the whole Gemini protocol/small-web thing and…

gemcities, geminiprotocol, smallweb, alternative-web, digital-privacy, independent-web, online-publishing, web-hosting

To publish or not to publish, that is the question

My apologies to William Shakespeare 😂 To publish, or not to publish, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler to dwell within The walled gardens of the mighty…

smallweb, algorithms, humor, parody, shakespeare

Updated offgridholdout.org page is safe!

Pretty much have this website designed and just need to do some minor tweaks and populate some info. The nice thing is that in Brave browser, with Shields Up…

smallweb, ads, brave, safe, tracking, website

Thanks you Gemcities users!

Thank you to the 56 current users of Gemcities! The comments I get are always positive and I love that people are taking back their own voice! #geminiprotocol…

gemcities, geminiprotocol, indieweb, smallweb, slowpint