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Shannon Kay@shannonkay@bookstodon.com (2026-08-21 16:44:33)
@sylvia @olly 
I agree, a service or premade software is definitely better for most people who want to make a blog.

But for a non-blog website, the barrier to entry is quite low, even for a fairly "hardcore indie web" standard.

I guess I'm hardcore indieweb myself on my personal website. It's static, handwritten, and hosted from home. I use Jekyll for my blog, though.
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Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 17:33:46)
@shannonkay @sylvia My piece was certainly with blogging in mind, for sure, but I think the point still stands for basic websites. I use Jekyll for one of my own sites, pretty complex imo. The point about no dependencies also isn't true since you need a 3rd party web host unless you have an always-on server with a static IP in your closet 🤷‍♂️

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Shannon Kay@shannonkay@bookstodon.com (2026-08-22 02:00:19)
@olly @sylvia 
Oh, there are never no dependencies. I do host from a NAS in my living room, but I rely on DDNS service, the local ISP, etc. 

Jekyll is relatively complex, and sometimes I do wonder if I should move my blog to something with less barrier to update.

What I meant for a non-blog static site was that it's much simpler to write some basic HTML/CSS than to run a static site generator, and a relative beginner can write a basic page and upload to a web host.