Jo BagerOct 24, 2023
Aral Balkan

On the Internet, public space is not a place like Facebook or Xitter. It is the sum total of the interconnections between individually owned and controlled places.

This is why I’m designing the Small Web to enable everyone to have their own place on the web.

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

And if you want to help us continue to exist, you can fund our work (because folks like the EU sure as hell aren’t).

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

#publicSpace #internet #digitalNetwork #SmallWeb #SmallTech #funding

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
Oct 24, 2023 at 12:02pmWeb
Show threadJulian FietkauOct 24, 2023

@aral Hey Aral, I gave you a shout out while talking to @fediversereport about the philosophy behind my recent weekend project Pinhole  https://fietkau.software/pinhole and why I built it to be anti-scalable. Thanks for the inspiration! 🙂 If they end up using the full quote, your name should appear in their next newsletter.

Edit: Announcement post here: https://fietkau.social/@julian/111280305609770072 (If you're about to boost this post, it'll probably be more useful for your followers to see that one instead)

Pinhole

Pinhole is a tiny single-user Bluesky→ActivityPub one-way bridge. It can be self-hosted to provide a mirror bot for exactly one Bluesky profile followable by exactly one ActivityPub (e.g. Mastodon) account.

Julian Fietkau
Show threadAral BalkanOct 24, 2023

@julian Thank you. That’s lovely to hear.

💕

@fediversereport

Show threadAndy WoottonOct 24, 2023
@aral "The Internet is a conversation", not a room in a conference centre, hired by the hour. Africans meet in the shade of the largest tree in their area and it's free. Ubuntu. The conversations can be just as valuable. They generate the wealth.