Websites I Have Known And Loved
Communities
P2P Marketplaces
- Crowdsupply
crowdsourcing for open hardware products.
- tindie
marketplace for DIY hardware products.
Search Engines/Discovery
- Marginalia
a search-engine that defeats SEO by crawling strictly non-commercial content
- wiby
a human-curated search engine that crawls user-submitted sites. fewer SEO results and more personal blogs.
- Curlie
a human-edited, hierarchical directory of the www.
- Lemmyverse.net
an index for the Lemmyverse.
see also: browse.feddit.de
- search.jabber.net
XMPP chatroom browser and web client
- Repology
track packaging work across nearly every OS, subscribe to package updates.
- Farside
aggregator for public searx/invidious/nitter instances, etc.
Topical/Curated
- Linux Phone Apps
a directory for apps which run well on Linux phones.
- Delightful Apps
a curated, categorized list of open source projects. use this instead of searching "best Linux application for <foo>".
- MuckRock
file Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests with zero expertise through a competent non-profit team that handles the nitty-gritty.
- Yeggi
3d models/stl/gcode for everything under the sun.
- MNT Research
open, hackable, and usable personal computers.
From the Firehose
- Phoronix
newsfeed for everything open source/adjacent
- Hackaday
blogroll for every novel DIY build
- Liliputing
newsfeed for every slightly novel hardware product
Stylishly down the Rabbithole
World's Finest Bloggers
Zines