#Business #Outlooks
Endgame for the Open Web · A call to reclaim web sovereignty https://ilo.im/16bqrz

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#Threats #AI #Web #Community #OpenWeb #BigWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Websites #Content

Endgame for the Open Web

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash

“But now things suck even for me and I’m sad!”

Oh, the gravy train ran out of gravy, did it? Something about leopards eating people’s faces?

Here, have a very fucking tiny violin.

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#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

“How could we have known?!”

Maybe if you’d listened to those of us warning you – often times your own damn friends – instead of siding with the corporations that paid your salaries/consulting fees/sponsored your conferences/invited you to parties and bought you free booze…

🤷‍♂️

#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

@oblomov @howard

So we can see a path where the web of documents (#4opens #smallweb) is pushed away from the web of apps (#dotcons #bigweb).

This is a functional path for sustaining the alt tech path as the #smallweb is much more #KISS thus #DIY than the mess we have in the "bigweb". We likely need a better framing than this...

“I gave the world wide web away for free because I thought that it would only work if it worked for everyone. Today, I believe that to be truer than ever.” — Tim Berners Lee

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#Business #Web #Sharing #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb #Centralization #SocialMedia #AI #Quotes

#Business #Analyses
Does Google want to kill the web? · “Google says market forces, I say their misuse of AI.” https://ilo.im/167abv

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#Google #SearchEngine #AI #Publishing #Content #Website #BigWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #OpenWeb

Does Google want to kill the web?

The closer you look, the more this seems like a reasonable question.

Computerworld

#Development #Analyses
Passkeys and modern authentication · Let’s consider whether this is really what we want https://ilo.im/166klm

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#Business #BigWeb #Gatekeepers #Authentication #Passkeys #PasswordManagers #WebDev #Frontend #Backend #Pitfalls

Passkeys and Modern Authentication

Some thoughts in support of simple solutions.

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
Web's End

The internet has increasingly become a series of oligarchic obstacles to work around, in contrast to the humanistic ideals it was founded upon. To support this work and receive my weekly newsletter...

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🎶 One of these things is not like the other…🎶

Can you spot the difference kids?

https://defuse.ixd.ie

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #BigWeb #BigTech #LinkedIn #PersonalWebSite

#Development #Analyses
The orders of complexity of websites · Why big web features fail small websites https://ilo.im/164nnv

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#Simplicity #Complexity #WebPlatform #WebTechnology #Websites #WebApps #CMS #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb

The orders of complexity of websites and what they imply for the design of web platform features