Yesterweb
Yesterweb is an archived website and was a community (Discord, Mastodon, Hubs, Gemini, Minecraft instances) that “focused on nurturing creativity and diversity in web pages and digital social infrastructure”, with a number of member contributed manifestos, some of which referenced IndieWeb.
Shutdown
Several aspect of the community have shut down due to stress on the organizers in the face of rapid community growth[1].
- 2023-01-09 The Future of the Yesterweb
- 2023-02-20 Discord server becomes read-only
- 2023-03-25 The webring is shutting down
- 2023-04-05 The forum is shutting down
- 2023-05-01 Forum becomes read-only
Culture
It's fun to be nostalgic about old design choices and aesthetics. There’s a lot of comfort in nostalgia, but’s more of an 'icing' than a 'cake'. We aren't blind to the shortcomings of the early web, instead we see the potential that was lost. And sometimes we just want to dress up our websites!
- What happened to yesterweb
...based on The Document it really seems like it collapsed under the weight of its lofty ideology amid rapidly-rising user counts. the complex community-building and moderation processes the staff developed and described in The Document were too time-consuming to perform at scale...
- https://toot.garden/@moonview/110667602359898976)
finding out that #yesterweb blew up due to a 'digital guerilla' manipulating things behind the scenes, trying to make YW into a 'post-marxist' movement based in the #indieweb while keeping all of that on the down-low to attract regular nostalgic webdevs into the community was... Not on my 2023 bingo card frankly!