Sharing Moments

Although this site is brand new and almost empty, besides some entries in my rolls and zines sections, I have been thinking about and planning in my head what I wanted to have in it for a long time.
Those intentions were probably the ones holding me back; the main reason why the site was never up was because it never looked like how I imagined.
And it still doesn’t look like that, but at least it’s up and running!
One of the most important things that I wanted to do or have in my page was a section to share my photos. I don’t consider myself a photographer, but I have been taking photos as hobby for many (many) years by now. This has been an activity mostly for myself and the closest people around me, but at some point I wanted to share a bit more of it. Maybe someone will find it interesting. Maybe not, and that’s also OK.
As many others, I’m a bit tired of Instagram’s algorithm and related social media. I still use it but I share almost nothing in there.
While visiting random sites from the indie web, I came across some nice looking photography-oriented sites (and I plan to share some of them at some point) and motivated by them my own /rolls sections was born.
But yesterday, I came across this post where Peter describes the same desire and need of a photoblog-like place, something simple and straight forward, exactly the same way I envisioned it. And he went ahead and created Moments.

Moments is a quiet photoblog for people who take photos as part of life.

I decided to give it a try as it sounds exactly what I wanted as well! I jumped straight into it landing page, navigated some community moments and created my own account with a couple of “moments”.
I like the way it looks.
I like it has no likes, no followers.
I like the concepts of “moments” which more or less relates to the “rolls” I have on this site.
I like it has RSS! That’s the way I’ll follow other people moments as well.
I like you cannot do much in there! You go there to appreciate the pictures someone took the same way you go to a blog to read what a person wrote.
I even decided to setup the subdomain, so now I have https://moments.rufex.cc/ and also my /rolls section. I’ll probably experiment with both and see what makes the most sense in the future and how they grow.