So, if Twitter goes to hell and just becomes defunct, we’re going to lose entire chapters of recent history — including evidence of war crimes, human rights violations, and more. I hope we’re all paying attention to this and considering what we need to do to ensure that a billionaire can’t decide which parts of history to retain — and which parts to erase forever.

@rvawonk 16 years of tweets (most of them likely of no consequence) was the only reason I was keeping my account going. All the more validation that we – and not some corporation somewhere – must own and control our own content.

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

What is the Small Web?

Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player. Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about:

Aral Balkan

@aral @rvawonk Cool article.

I think until deploying single instance is as easy as installing app adoption will stay low.

Years ago I ran my own email server. Eventually it got to be a hassle so I stopped.

I kind of feel that way with Mastodon & Pixelfed, I *could* install and run single instances but do I want to deal with the hassle.

Small instances like the one I'm on feel like a happy medium. There is implicit trust b/c I know the admin. Portability makes it easy to leave.

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@aral @rvawonk which is what has me intrigued about site.js.

If you could build tooling around installing single instance apps that are one click installs that could be something.

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A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

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