Molly WhiteMany yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/
Aral Balkan@molly0xfff Excellent article, thank you for writing it, Molly.
Although I do wish I didn’t feel like we didn’t exist while reading it.
This is the Small Web—what Laura & I have been specifically working to realise for the past six years at least (if not closer to a decade if you count our work on the problem before settling on one possible solution):
https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
We do this as a self-funded (read; struggling) tiny not-for-profit (https://small-tech.org).
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:
Jenna 🇨🇦I love this so much!
When your developer tools become everyday (and every person) tools, I want to be part of the small web!
@jenna Thank you! 💕
I’m very much looking forward to they day when I can tell you that time is now :)
*gets back to writing code so that hopefully happens sooner rather than later*