This is a site encouraging people to make their own independent online services such as social networks, personal clouds, independent websites and more. You don’t need Google, Facebook, Twitter etc in your life, and you don’t need to be rich or a tech nerd either! Growing your own services is much easier and cheaper than you think.
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops: "How you used to get people looking at your websit…" - Mastodon
How you used to get people looking at your website before "going viral" was a thing, in the Web 1.0 days when people surfed the information superhighway by clicking on links to go from site to site. 1. The "Links" page! Every site had a page that was just links to other websites that the site owner thought were cool. You could email other site owners whose sites you thought were cool and ask if they thought your site was cool too, and they'd link back to you.
How to run a small social network site for your friends
This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.