Dillo directory – Directory of useful sites that work reasonably well on Dillo
Source: Hacker News
Directory of useful sites that work reasonably well on Dillo with a focus on human crafted content. Typically with no JavaScript and modest use of CSS. No affiliation.
Alternative Frontends
Farside Alternative frontends to many sites.
Archives
Usenet Archives Articles saved from Usenet newsgroups by Norman Yarvin Textfile directory BBS text files archive 1980-1995. Web Textfiles BBS text files archive post 1995. Archive Team Loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage.
Blog Aggregators
Bearblog “Discover articles and blogs on Bear”. Bubbles “Independent blog posts, ranked by the community. Good stuff bubbles up. The rest pops”. CAPCOM (proxy)
“CAPCOM is a public aggregator of subscribable Gemini pages and Gemini Atom feeds”.
Blog Platforms
Bear “A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform”. Mataroa “Naked blogging platform, for minimalists”.
Books
Project Gutenberg Online library with over 75,000 free eBooks (example). Standard Ebooks High quality free public domain eBooks (example). Wikipedia Book Search Search a book using the ISBN in multiple sites and databases. Open Textbook Library Library for textbooks with an open license.
Fediverse
Smolfedi A smolweb Fediverse client.
Forums
MelonLand Forum Forum for art and creative topics (closed on mondays). 32-Bit Cafe “A community of like-minded website hobbyists and professionals helping to make the web fruitful and bountiful again”. Privacy Guides “Socially motivated website that provides information for protecting your data security and privacy”.
Magazines
Low Tech Magazine Solar-powered magazine covering low technology solutions. Good Internet A magazine for the non-corporate and independent web. Phrack Computer security and hacker culture magazine since 1985. Paged Out! Programming, security, electronics and similar topics. ELPiS Magazine exploring the small web, indie web, and digital minimalism.
Marketplace
Epic Attic Marketplace listing with no checkout or shopping cart (UK based).
Newspapers
NPR text Text-only version of National Public Radio (US). CBC Lite Text-only version of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. NewsWaffle (proxy)
News aggregator via Gemini. Timef News aggregator (US centric). Slowernews Hand crafted news updated when relevant.
Research
arXiv Open-access repository of electronic preprints. dblp Computer science bibliography database.
Search Engines
Marginalia Small independent search engine. Wiby Search engine for older style and lightweight pages. DuckDuckGo Lite Lightweight version of DuckDuckGo search engine. Mojeek Independent search engine.
Software
ArchWiki Arch Linux curated documentation (applicable to many other distros). Awesome Self-Hosted Comprehensive list of free software for self-hosting (big!). Let’s Decentralize Alternatives to the standard internet stack. POSIX.1-2008 Specification POSIX.1-2008 official documentation (see table of contents).
Sustainability
Earth Notes Practical steps to reduce carbon footprint. Permacomputing “Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture”.
Technology News
Lobsters Computing-focused link aggregator with moderated discussion. LWN Reader-supported news for Linux and free software development. Blue Dwarf Link aggregator with a small social network hosted on a RPi 3. Altershash Unofficial Slashdot digest.
Web Directories
Plaintext World “A collecton of plaintext (and mainly text) websites”. UnScripted “A guide to navigating the web without JavaScript”. Greycoder text-only news “A list of text-only & minimalist news sites”. BMK Lite & Text Only News and other Websites “A List of text only & lightweight, News, Sports, Weather, Search Engines, Cooking, Tech News, News Aggregator Websites, and other stuff”. Cheapskate’s Guide “Resources page for the Cheapskate’s Guide to Computers and the internet”. Marginalia Links “The Internet is not much without links. We should link more”. XXIIVV Bookmarks “The Bookmarks is a curated list of websites”. マリウス Bookmarks “Collection of all bookmarks that I used to save across multiple browsers and devices”. Seirdy Search Engines “A look at search engines with their own indexes”.
Webrings
Merveilles Hand-crafted wikis and portfolios for artists and developers. IndieWeb Webring Blogs and personal sites from IndieWeb (many images!).