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Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 01:04:55)
"Popular IndieWeb bloggers have been talking about "Hardcore IndieWeb" recently. The idea is doing everything yourself: building a site with pure HTML and CSS using a text editor on your laptop and hosting it... from any cheap web host, or even from a cupboard at home.

Nothing wrong with that if you have the time and the patience, or if you need complete control over everything on your site, but I'd argue against doing this in the general case."

https://olly.world/hardcore-about-the-indieweb-ethos

#blogging #indieweb
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Sylvia@sylvia@social.lol (2026-08-21 03:27:44)
@olly I love it, but NOT for blogs. I have a hardcore website, with a lot of things on it, but for blog posts it's just too much of a fuss. 

I did do a workaround though, I automagically post the RSS to my website :)

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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.