An IndieWeb reader: My new home on the internet • Aaron Parecki

I see more developers homebrewing their own spaces as the enshittification of the common internet only accelerates. We all have our specific tastes, and the general cost of hosting a small site is, based solely on my personal experience, nearly free. Even non-developers are getting into the fad, with many using sites like Bear Blog and omg.lol to host super custom fast personal home pages. It's almost like how podcasts came back into fashion a decade ago. The personal home page is next. Still, there is the problem of discoverability.

What's hard about hosting your own software is finding helpful, modern guides on how to do it. My team and I spent an inordinate amount of time researching and hosting a Lemmy instance, only for it to tear itself apart twice until we got it right. Now, partially this is because Lemmy itself is a bit of a mess, but mostly its because the documentation surrounding the project is underbaked. If the developers spent as much time writing technical docs as they did developing, I'd bet that the number of Lemmy instances would be double.