Dillo directory
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.
- Invidious.f5.si
- Invidious instance (alternative to YouTube).
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".
- Blogosphere
- "Discover the latest posts from independent blogs across the web".
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 ¹
- 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
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).
- Godbolt Compiler Explorer
- Interactive online compiler which shows the assembly and output of compiled C, C++, Rust, Go (and many more) code.
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!).
- The Hacker Webring
- Collection of personal and project webpages of fellow hackers.
Footnotes
- Let me know if you know more sites to buy goods that work without JS, they are very hard to find.
