Issue 18 (Vol 2) of Ctrl-ZINE (^Z) hits the server at midnight. A zine me and all of us at Ctrl-c.club run, publish, maintain - by and for all on the Smol Web! There are boatloads of discussions...
Issue 18 (Vol 2) of Ctrl-ZINE (^Z) hits the server at midnight. A zine me and all of us at Ctrl-c.club run, publish, maintain - by and for all on the Smol Web! There are boatloads of discussions therein this issue and the previous 17 issues. A monthly tech-chew about alternative forms of communication, Web-adjacent protocols, programs one has written, games one has made, book reviews - anything tech-related but really just whatever one wants to write about.
I mention it here because this is the 10 Year Anniversary of Ctrl-c.club (well, Dec 14 - I am writing this entry here at 10 PM Dec 13). Ctrl-c has been my daily go-to for all things community and communication online for close to two years now. Iris message boards, IRC, e-mail, even on-server blog platforms (h/t slog). So this is sort of a love letter for the nix and all the folks there. And also for the Tildeverse in general. The Smol Web has made a big impact in my life, the migration from large social media platforms starting in 2019 for me (well, closing the last acct on Twitter in 2019), and via blogging and zines and the Ctrl-c server and other methods of communication and discovery, it truly it a new/small(ish)/better Web these days than just five years ago. Instead of just a social feed, there is more to explore. Webrings, blogrolls, independent sites and software - all existed prior, but so many more exploring these things now, as free(dom) time away from centralized platforms has sparked individual's interest in wanting to create, and belong, to a cohesive "greater" WWW and have a hub and home of their own on the Internet.
Anyway, sorry if this is too long. Or spam (idk how sites like this work, I'm still green). But I wanted to share, see what anyone/everyone thinks of Netizens descent from large/corporate sites and re-creating, re-joining the individual Web/blog/portfolio/landing page/personal site Internet that started it all and continues.
From Tildes Code of Conduct: So you're fine, as long as you don't exclusively post self-promotion for your own stuff, and you try to participate elsewhere on the site in good faith.
Anyway, sorry if this is too long. Or spam (idk how sites like this work, I'm still green).
If you have your own site/project/channel/etc. that you'd like to share on Tildes, that's generally fine (in moderation), but it shouldn't be the primary reason that you post on the site. Tildes is a community, not a free advertising platform. Sharing your own content is welcome as long as you're involved in the community, but don't just treat Tildes as a source of an audience.
So you're fine, as long as you don't exclusively post self-promotion for your own stuff, and you try to participate elsewhere on the site in good faith.
I read issue 18 and found it an enjoyable read. Bit weird to read a piece that write very compassionately about blogs in a PDF from a site without a RSS feed. Though I understand that Ctrl-C is a...
I read issue 18 and found it an enjoyable read. Bit weird to read a piece that write very compassionately about blogs in a PDF from a site without a RSS feed. Though I understand that Ctrl-C is a different type of community and I understand the novelty of the classic fanzine formula. I still receive a PDF science fiction fanzine every once in a while from a mailing list.
The whole small web thing is a thing I still find great in theory and I am technically part of it with two self hosted blogs, but I still haven’t found that sense of community that existed with blogging 15-20 years ago, because interactions and discussions about topics I am passionate about have moved to sites like Tildes for me, whereas blogging in itself is mostly just a process to enjoy but it feels mostly posting to the void.
Issue 18 (Vol 2) of Ctrl-ZINE (^Z) hits the server at midnight. A zine me and all of us at Ctrl-c.club run, publish, maintain - by and for all on the Smol Web! There are boatloads of discussions therein this issue and the previous 17 issues. A monthly tech-chew about alternative forms of communication, Web-adjacent protocols, programs one has written, games one has made, book reviews - anything tech-related but really just whatever one wants to write about.
I mention it here because this is the 10 Year Anniversary of Ctrl-c.club (well, Dec 14 - I am writing this entry here at 10 PM Dec 13). Ctrl-c has been my daily go-to for all things community and communication online for close to two years now. Iris message boards, IRC, e-mail, even on-server blog platforms (h/t slog). So this is sort of a love letter for the nix and all the folks there. And also for the Tildeverse in general. The Smol Web has made a big impact in my life, the migration from large social media platforms starting in 2019 for me (well, closing the last acct on Twitter in 2019), and via blogging and zines and the Ctrl-c server and other methods of communication and discovery, it truly it a new/small(ish)/better Web these days than just five years ago. Instead of just a social feed, there is more to explore. Webrings, blogrolls, independent sites and software - all existed prior, but so many more exploring these things now, as free(dom) time away from centralized platforms has sparked individual's interest in wanting to create, and belong, to a cohesive "greater" WWW and have a hub and home of their own on the Internet.
Anyway, sorry if this is too long. Or spam (idk how sites like this work, I'm still green). But I wanted to share, see what anyone/everyone thinks of Netizens descent from large/corporate sites and re-creating, re-joining the individual Web/blog/portfolio/landing page/personal site Internet that started it all and continues.
Stay well, all
From Tildes Code of Conduct:
So you're fine, as long as you don't exclusively post self-promotion for your own stuff, and you try to participate elsewhere on the site in good faith.
thank you. Yes I will keep promote-y things under wraps. Justw anted to share this. And I DO need to make more of an effort to particpate here
I read issue 18 and found it an enjoyable read. Bit weird to read a piece that write very compassionately about blogs in a PDF from a site without a RSS feed. Though I understand that Ctrl-C is a different type of community and I understand the novelty of the classic fanzine formula. I still receive a PDF science fiction fanzine every once in a while from a mailing list.
The whole small web thing is a thing I still find great in theory and I am technically part of it with two self hosted blogs, but I still haven’t found that sense of community that existed with blogging 15-20 years ago, because interactions and discussions about topics I am passionate about have moved to sites like Tildes for me, whereas blogging in itself is mostly just a process to enjoy but it feels mostly posting to the void.