No. You have a toolbox, it's called a web browser. To unite the particular websites you have a web ring, or your own bookmarks. There were also web catalogues.

Bookmark at not intuitive enough to me and RSS feeds are still feeds that have no interaction features like the writer of this article like.

I am always for giving the most power to users. I like compromises like user settings so people who want a feed with interactions can and who doesn't can disable it

I think I wrote this. This is my philosophy for how the web should be. Social media shouldn’t be the main Highway of the web. And the internet should be more of a place to visit, not an always there presence.

But why do we need interactive crap for everything. Comments and etc for articles are the worst. Not everybody needs to hear you, sometimes you’ve just gotta take in information and process it.

Like I literally Maintain my own fleet of apps that give me just the article body images, in a sorted feed. No ads. No links. Nothing. Even the links to other articles, etc in the middle of an article is too much. I hate that shit. Modern web page design is garbage and unreadable.

I don’t need to know stacy from North Dakota’s thoughts on an article because 99% of the time it’s toxic anyways. Or misinformed.

One of the things I miss about web rings and recommended links is it's people who are passionate about a thing saying here are other folks worth reading about this. Google is a piss poor substitute for the recommendations of people you like to read.

Only problem with slow web is people write what they are working on, they aren't trying to exhaustively create "content". By which I mean, they aren't going to have every answer to every question. You read what's there, you don't go searching for what you want to read.

Modern web page design is garbage and unreadable.

Because it's a "newspaper meets slot machine" design. Kills two birds with one stone, hijacking media (censorship is invisible) and making money (invisible too).

I don’t need to know stacy from North Dakota’s thoughts on an article because 99% of the time it’s toxic anyways. Or misinformed.

And also because not every place is supposed to be crawling with people.

Interactiviry seems to be a good thing. What brings you to participate here on Lemmy?

Reading content. I'm more of a lurker compared to most users.

I like your pictures!

Well...

Maybe that’s a dark mode thing? I know Dark Reader breaks almost anything with an already dark theme.

With respect to the presentation of your site, I like it! It's quite stylish and displays well on my phone.

Lol, no. I made a usercss for this (currently not released) but explicitly disabled it here. But that one uses a base style that switches via @prefers light/dark:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --text-color: #DBD9D9;
    --text-highlight: #232323;
    --bg-color: #1f1f1f;
    …
  }
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
  :root {
    …
  }

Guess your site uses one of them too.

Something that I have enjoyed recently are blogs by academics, which often have a list of other blogs that they follow. Additionally, in their individual posts, there is often a sense of them being a part of a wider conversation, due to linking to other blogs that have recently discussed an idea.

I agree that the small/slow web stuff is more useful for serendipitous discovery rather than searching for answers for particular queries (though I don't consider that a problem with the small/slow web per se, rather with the poor ability to search for non-slop content on the modern web)

I admit I used Publii for my builder. I can’t program CSS for crap. I’m far more geared towards backend dev.

If you don’t mind me asking, how do you host your site?

I host it via docker+nginx on my own hardware.

I’m in the same boat (sorta)!

Follow up question, did you have trouble exposing port :80 & :443 to the internet? Also are you also using Swarm or Kubernetes?

I have the docker engine setup on a machine along side Traefik (have tried Nginx in the past) primarily using Docker Compose and it works beautifully on LAN however I can’t seem to figure out why I can’t connect over the internet, I’m forced to WireGuard/VPN into my home network to access my site.

No need to provide troubleshooting advice, just curious on your experience.

Buy the cheapest laptop you can find, with a broken screen it's fine.
Install debian 12 on it
give it a memorable name, like "server"
go to a DNS registrar of your choice, maybe "porkbun" and buy your internet DNS name
for example "MyInternetWebsite.tv ", this will cost you 20$/30$ for the rest of your life, or until we finally abolish the DNS system to something less extortionnate
Install webmin and then apache on it
go to your router,
give the laptop a static address in the DNS section
Some router do no have the ability to apply a static dhcp lease to computers on your network, in that case it will be more complicated or you will have to buy a new one, one that preferably supports openwrt.
then go to port forwarding and forward the ports 80 and 443 to the address of the static dhcp lease
now use puttygen to create a private key, copy that public key to your linux laptop's file called /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
go to the webmin interface, which can be accessed with http://server.lan:10000/ from any computer on your PC
and setup dynamic dns, this will make the DNS record for MyInternetWebsite.tv change when the IP of your internet connection changes, which can happen at any time, but usually rarely does. But you have to, or else when it changes again, your website and email will stop working.
Now go to your desktop computer, and download winsshfs, put in your private key and mount the folder /var/www/html/ to a drive letter like "T:"
Now, whatever you put in T: , will be the content of your very own internet web server enjoy