Independent blog posts, ranked by the community. Good stuff bubbles up. The rest pops.
This appeared in my feed today and I like the idea of it. Bubbles seems to be a “Hacker News but for non techy blogs”, that curated a bunch of RSS feeds from blogs and every post is shared, but some float to the top (the ones that have votes), and some sink down. Nice analogy, hopefully it ends up a successful project 👍
Bringing the IndieWeb and the Fediverse together
An interview with Benjamin Behnke, the creator of Bubbles.town, a community-driven aggregator for independent personal blogs. After controversy on Mastodon and 32-bit Café over his use of Anthropic's Claude to categorize blogs and bypass robots.txt signals, Ben responds about the mistake, the removal of the AI classification pipeline, a locally-trained Naive Bayes replacement, and stricter robots.txt enforcement. A reflection on software harm reduction, forgiveness, my Grandma Bubbles, and the fragile labours of love making the IndieWeb.