The federated model, absent the “just add targeted ads” panacea, pushes us to rethink constraints like disk space and bandwidth and moderator capacity, and to build things that are much more frugal with those resources than the centralized, highly-capitalized hegemons.
What stuff can we build to help each other, that we can run on our “universal basic hosted servers”?
(This thought brought to you by inspiration from @dansup continuing to tinker with cool things)
Also, yes, @aral is right: the Small Web is a huge part of the vision, I think.
(Cc @Edent)
But also, what if a server was something anyone could run - was as trivial to own and run as your smartphone? What needs to be true for us to upend the ownership structure of most of the internet?
@[email protected] It’s called the Small Web. Been working on building it for the last however many years. (We even ran a prototype a few years ago with the City of Ghent to see what it would look like if a municipality sponsored their citizens’ Small Web places.) https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/ #SmallWeb #UBI
@james ping
This really sounds like "activitypub over veilid."
@thegibson would know more than me about Veilid, as I'm just a Forrest Gump type, finding myself in interesting places at pivotal moments, but it's heartening to know that folks are on the same page with similar ideas.
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