Ate Bear Fell Into an Indie Web Rabbit Hole

Another site update today…

I created some banners, cards, and logos for this blog with the help of ChatGPT.

I don’t think I’ll use all of them, but somehow I’ve started treating Ate Bear Blog like it’s a real brand. I’m just going with the flow at this point. 🤭

You can visit my Collections page if you’d like to see them.

I also spent some time exploring different websites today.

It’s honestly mind-blowing how deep the rabbit hole goes once you start exploring the Indie Web.

Last month, I discovered Neocities, and through it I was introduced to a bunch of cool and amazing websites. I didn’t even know there was a name for this whole community until today.

Then there are:

SlashPages

Webmentions

Indie Web

Webrings

Nekoweb

Status.Cafe

I’ll leave links to all of them so you can explore them for yourself.

The ideas of owning your own content and decentralization really resonate with me.

What’s funny is that I didn’t realize I had already been doing a little bit of that since 2023 when I started making my own completely free websites.

I definitely want to support and participate in this movement.

For this blog, I’ll probably implement some slash pages—but only the ones I actually need.

That said, I don’t think I’ll be talking much more about Indie Web things in future posts.

This will probably be the last post about it because what I really want to share here are my real-life stories, not my tech-nerd Indie Web adventures.

See you in the next one! 🐻