Citation Needed

Don't worry about the small web. Most people running the small web don't do it for others but themselves. They don't care whether they have 5 visitors or 1 million. Visitors are just the cherry on top, my main reason for maintaining a small web page is to put down my thoughts, organize them, go back to them if I need to, and helping whichever stranger stumbles upon them along the way.

The small web and indie web audience doesn't use google. They use RSS readers:

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me-more-traffic-than-google/

https://matduggan.com/you-can-absolutely-have-an-rss-dependent-website-in-2026/

Small web is there to stay, big tech can't do much about it:

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

The only threats to small web are:

* the lack of net neutrality

* lack of competition in the the PC component industry which is the backbone of cheap VPSes and hosting services

* browser monopoly, as any monopolistic browser could impose their small-web-unfriendly version of the web

> a top crypto priority sponsored by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.).

These three Dem clowns deserve derision, but for full context, this is a GOP sponsored bill, with a full-on cryptocurrency sponsored GOP government in complete control of the country. Scourge of SV, David O. Sacks is "Crypto Czar," while POTUS is circulating his own shitcoin.

For more information on this topic, check out Molly White's "Citation Needed." She is truly excellent at her job.

https://www.citationneeded.news/

https://www.youtube.com/@molly0xfff/videos

Molly White, a prolific Wikipedia editor, has written a good overview of how information source reliability is handled in practice: https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/. There's a process for how decisions about source legitimacy and reliability are made, and these "decisions aren’t made lightly and are frequently revisited: there have been over fifty discussions about the Daily Mail’s reliability, for example, with both sides being vehemently argued".

Related, from Molly White's excellent review of Chris Dixon's Read Write Own [1]:

> RSS is dead, he repeats endlessly throughout the book.[...] It's profoundly weird to read RSS's obituary as a person who checks her very-much-still-alive feed reader several times a day to get everything from cryptocurrency news to dinner ideas, and who rarely encounters a website that doesn't provide a functional feed.

[1] https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/