About

Fossery Tech

Hey! I'm Fossery Tech, a young tech guy, beginner web developer who prefers FOSS technology, takes privacy seriously.

I started this whole Fossery Tech project in September 2022. The purpose of the project is to promote Linux and FOSS. I decided to only use FOSS software to produce and FOSS platforms to share content to prove that it IS possible to live without proprietary services (well, except for some proprietary Linux drivers and news websites for most people).

I started to publish videos on my Odysee channel with various FOSS related topics, including alternatives to common proprietary software. I don't release videos that often though (only 3-4 videos a year lol) because I focus on quality over quantity, and I manage my channel alone.

I also created a Mastodon profile where I share some random FOSS related things (personal experiences, polls, silly memes, and recently Weekly Linux and FOSS News). FOSS can be fun! Right?

In January 2023, I synced my Odysee channel to TILvids which is a PeerTube instance for edutainment (educational-entertainment) content. Conveying useful knowledge in a fun, enjoyable way, just what I do in my videos. Great value match!

By publishing my videos on multiple platforms, I also provide my viewers choice to use whatever FOSS platform they like: watch my Odysee videos from Odysee website/app, LBRY desktop/mobile, third-party LBRY clients etc.; or my PeerTube videos from the website of a PeerTube instance, NewPipe, Mastodon web/clients etc. By using Mastodon for posting random stuff, I also let my followers engage with my posts from all across the Fediverse, no matter which platform/client they use (Mastodon, Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey etc.). It's good to have choice!

And btw I also have a Matrix room and an XMPP group you can join to chat with other like-minded people interested in Linux and FOSS topics.

FosseryWeb and FosseryWeb Min

I started to develop the original FosseryWeb in 2023, as a small hobby project to practice my web dev skills (and also to give something to the FOSS community in return for creating many excellent software). It had/has a modern card design, which works in the mainstream browsers but then I heard quite a few community members using browsers with different engines, started testing my site with those more niche browsers/engines (KDE browsers, Otter, Pale Moon, Ladybird, Servo, NetSurf, Dillo), in most of these browsers there were some smaller issues, but in Dillo and NetSurf, the site's layout is completely broken, and I can't fix it without changing the whole layout and design, due to the limited CSS support of those browsers.

So in 2025, I came up with the idea of creating a separate site, which has a more minimalistic design, which can be made with only basic CSS features which are supported in Dillo and NetSurf too. I decided to call it FosseryWeb Min. I test the site with those 2 browsers to ensure compatibility, but of course it can be used in any (GUI) browser (might consider supporting CLI browsers too in the future, but it's not planned at the moment).

As a secondary goal, I also try to make the site as lightweight as possible, since a minimal site should be lightweight, right? I don't include any images (unless necessary e.g. for some programming cheatsheets), and organized CSS into multiple files to be able to load only the necessary styling for each page (e.g. menu pages only have the global styles from style.css).

And because Dillo doesn't have JavaScript support, NetSurf has it disabled by default, I didn't include all the interactive stuff like utilities and quizes from the original site.

As for tools, I use exclusively FOSS tools for development:

• Code editor: Pulsar

• Website preview: Live Server

• Word processor (for downloadable cheatsheets): LibreOffice
• Markdown editor (for downloadable cheatsheets): MarkText
• Hosting the site: Codeberg (Pages)

(Contributors can use different tools of course.)

Known issues

• Markdown downloads open inside the browser in Dillo (can be saved using right click, "Save link as...").
• Downloads in NetSurf don't always work.
• Downloads in Ladybird and Servo don't work (at least for now).

If you notice any issue not listed above, feel free to write an issue (unfortunately you can't do this in Dillo), or optionally, you can join the Matrix or XMPP group (links in the Related content section below).

Contribute to the project

Do you have some knowledge of web development? Well, FosseryWeb Min is a community project, so you can consider contributing. There are no contributors at the moment, so you can be the first!

Fork the repo, do some modifications (solve some Issues, correct bugs, add content or improve existing ones) then create a pull request . If your pull request gets accepted, you get a mention here and a shoutout on Mastodon!

Note that I won't judge you based on your political views, I'll only review your code. This is a development project, not a political party.