Today seems an apt day to repost this: proposals for how to rebuild a web for humans, by humans.

https://taggart-tech.com/human-web/

And a small realization of part of the dream: Ringspace, a protocol for cryptographically-verified webrings:

https://ringspace.net

Meditations on The Human Web

To save the internet, we may have to rebuild it.

@mttaggart I've missed this until now. It resonates. In particular, I cannot agree strongly enough with the emphasis placed on identity; it's the thing I contend is the most valuable to a person acting on the web.
@mttaggart Ringspace is such a cool name

@mttaggart I like the "Human Web" idea. I had a lot of those same thoughts in my mind when I was designing Diskuto (https://github.com/diskuto/diskuto-api/#diskuto-api)

But, you touch on aggregators being part of the problem, which it unfortunately took me a little too long to learn.

Aggregators have their purpose, of course. But the more you automate/aggregate things, the more it gets exploited for attention.

I wrote a bit on it here: https://nfnitloop.com/blog/2025/07/smallweb/