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My experience with the indie web
I started getting into this recently, and it's actually nice. While major platforms are bot-infested, predator-infested, AI-clogged and keeping up with recycled UIs and an awful moderation, these websites are just sitting there - clean and entirely powered by humans. These are niche communitiees, which are often ran by a small group of devs, and they don't actually wanna be large companies or compete with major media. So, I'll put here the categories and my experience with them.
Old websites.
Perhaps the mot famous example here is Newgrounds, and the only one of this category I've been to. Around since 1999, and they've survived a lot of events, like the death of flash and the AI invasion. It's mostly where you can upload blogs, animations, games and digital art. A thing is that when you upload something there, it goes to the portal; if it gets many positive votes, it stays on the website forever (protected). But if it gets many negative votes (below 2.0), it's wiped out of the platform (blammed). I have two pictures and a text post there, but I'm not that active there. Fun fact: when you work in a team with a game, the game appears in everyone's profiles, not just yours. Plus, you can make some bucks with it.
Revival websites.
The most popular type of indie social media. Basically remakes of modern websites in their old layouts. For example, SpaceHey (revival of old MySpace). Everyone's out here roleplaying pretending it's the late 2000s and going crazy with their profile layouts. I have a page myself, and I even found a group of someone's hardcore band there. another example is BitView (revival of 2008 YouTube). I tried signing up there, but they were having problems with their email confirmations, which is something they've addressed in August 2025. Since there are a bunch of old yt revivals I chose KamTape (formerly EpikTube, revival of 2005 YouTube). Altough you can't set a profile picture, it's a nice one. They're a larger community, but a bit aggressive when protecting their code/community. SilasTube got taken down because of them. There's even a 2009 twitter revival (Blips), by the same group as BitView, but I don't really know about it.
Transformative websites.
Modern indie media. Not old, but not pretending to be old either. Neocities is one that has many debates due to some people considering it a revival website, because of Geocities. Basically you can make your website, customize it (which you'll have to learn about HTML/CSS, and maybe a bit of JavaScript) and check out on other people's websites. Also I'm writting this on Neocities right now. Another one I've been to is Aftersleep, which is a webforum that you can discuss a few topics and have your own website linked, however it's been down since Christmas due to a 509 error. I only have two posts there in case if you wanna know.
And that's it for today. Expect more things to come on this section soon.