Personal-Websites Index

[erlend-sh]

As a moonshot idea, I hope we will one day have created a multi-million-entry index of ‘People’s Personal (but public) Websites’.

There are many precedents to this kind of thing:

https://indiemap.org/
https://github.com/snarfed/indie-map

https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb

https://ooh.directory/
https://ooh.directory/blog/2024/blog-pages/

What’s a little shocking is that we don’t yet have a good map of the Personal Sites of the world wide web. In grand total, how many people have established an independent web persona?

Meta knows exactly how many people are on Instagram, and we have a pretty good idea of it as well.

Personal sites though? Maybe there’s a million of them, maybe 20? (wouldn’t that be nice). We truly don’t know.

I think there’s power in knowing our own network size, so we can see ourselves on the map and fully appreciate our network-power.

https://www.deviantart.com/jaysimons/art/Map-of-Social-Media-Forums-and-Imageboards-877912094

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-online-world-mapped-2021/