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Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by TrueDuality on Thursday November 05, 2020 @01:01PM (#25000392)
Isn't this simply talking about personal websites? They haven't gone away, a lot moved to wordpress which gives them a cookie cutter feel, but a lot of other ones are still independent and feel like they're on their own.
Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by SamBam on Thursday November 05, 2020 @02:13PM (#25001004)
From the description, this is more about personal wikis or notebooks. Individual pages may get edited again and again, and nothing is necessarily in a "polished for publication" state.

In exploring new notebook apps -- like Notion, which allows you to publish pages and subpages -- I've found numerous examples of people having basically their own notebooks open on the web, such as https://notes.andymatuschak.org/

Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by tenkabuto on Thursday November 05, 2020 @07:53PM (#25003774)
As someone with a site like that, I've found it to be very freeing to just publish some thoughts and tweak them over time. When I tried to blog, I felt too much pressure to make something super high-quality and definitive, that will stand the tests of time and never be edited... So I ended up publishing nothing besides the "I'm starting to blog again!" posts or something small and safe.

+ By tweaking over time, the work can unwittingly become bigger, better, or more polished than it'd have been if I'd tried to make something so intense from the start.

Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by tvanantwerp on Thursday November 05, 2020 @02:04PM (#25000930)
I think it's a move away not from WordPress specifically, but the kind of structure a "blog" providers. Personal sites for so long have been: home, about, portfolio, blog. Digital gardens seem to be more along the lines of: I'm gonna dump whatever I want here in whatever style and structure I like because it's my site and you can't tell me no.
Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by mikestew on Thursday November 05, 2020 @01:37PM (#25000678)
They haven't gone away, a lot moved to wordpress which gives them a cookie cutter feel

If you come to my WordPress site to ogle my amazing, individual, and unique web design skills, then you definitely came for the wrong reasons.

Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by unicornporn on Friday November 06, 2020 @04:32AM (#25006346)
> They haven't gone away, a lot moved to wordpress

Very dumbed down: the garden is the wiki, the blog is the stream. They both have different roles and many gardeners let them complement each other.

Listen to this if you are interested in understanding more: https://archive.org/details/gardens-and-streams-wikis-blogs-...

Here's very well tended garden: https://philosopher.life/

Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by h0p3 on Friday November 06, 2020 @05:22AM (#25006561)
o7, `/salute`

I am surprised to see this. My name is h0p3. It's a pleasure to meet you.

Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by unicornporn on Friday November 06, 2020 @05:37AM (#25006620)
Life is full of surprises! My name is not unicornporn. The pleasure is very much on my side! Perhaps I should write you a fan mail...
Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by h0p3 on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:54AM (#25007253)
Hai there, ¬unicornporn (forgive the dad joke, por favor). Indeed, life is, nomad. ^‿^

Perhaps it is one of your names? Well, whoever you are, it's my honor. And, for the record, maybe you already have spoken with me, for all I know.

I am, sadly, absurdly slow in my letter-writing (it's downright shameful), and I don't want to disappoint any further than I probably already have. I will continue to work on that front. But, I am also happy to piece together a faster channel. I think we have an enormous amount in common.

As to this account, I have run into it a few times (this is my second time through your account), but I've been too shy to say anything. You are quite a beacon on this forum.

It is very rare for me to speak with my voice to anyone who isn't basically family or in my physical proximity (and even then, I'm often quiet). However, for an irrational reason I can't quite put my finger on, I have a good feeling about you. If you are ever up for it, I would gladly speak in voicechat with you.

Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by unicornporn on Friday November 06, 2020 @03:29PM (#25010824)
I wish I could make one of those blushing emojis. We live in unicode times after all?

Voice sounds great, but English is not my native tongue and you'll probably be disappointed if you expect me to be well articulated in audio. I write English every day, but I speak English about twice a year. Hence, my English mind moves slower than my fingers dance across my mechanical keyboard.

End of disclaimer. I will contact you by other means and many years from now, when someone asks how we me met, we'll just give them this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006561

Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by superkuh on Thursday November 05, 2020 @01:14PM (#25000507)
Yes. It's a rebranding. But I've used the term before myself when trying to highlight the two classes of web that exist today. http://superkuh.com/blog/2020-02-22-1.html
Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by brudgers on Thursday November 05, 2020 @01:12PM (#25000492)
Wordpress is agribusiness that's why Wordpress sites tend toward uniformity.
Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by selfhoster11 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:00PM (#25004150)
They have been largely supplanted by Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. A resurgence in the concept of personal websites/digital gardens and protocols like Gemini is encouraging.
Re:Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of ... by exolymph on Thursday November 05, 2020 @01:56PM (#25000849)
Of course, but doesn't "digital gardens" sound much nicer and friendlier? That's the point.