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- Jan 2022
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maya.land maya.land
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https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/17/altweb-indieweb-squabble.html
This week on soap operas in the small web....
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- Jul 2021
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www.jayeless.net www.jayeless.net
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A great overview of some of the various definitions of small web and what it might entail.
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Another interpretation of the “Small Web” concept is that it refers to the use of alternative protocols to the dominant HTTP(S), lightweight ones like the older Gopher and newer Gemini. For example, the blog post Introduction to Gemini describes these collectively as “the Small Internet”.
Maybe the idea of a "personal internet" is what we're all really looking for? Something with some humanity? Something that's fun? Something that has some serendipity?
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I’m quite interested in concepts of the “Small Web” and adjacent topics, but it is definitely true that “small web” itself is a vague term that different people use to talk about different kinds of projects. What unites all these different concepts is the kind of web they define themselves against; that kind of bloated, corporate, algorithm-ruled and ad-ridden mess that constitutes the majority of highly-trafficked websites these days.
It would definitely be better if there were also a proactive, positive definition of what the small web were for rather than against.
It's better to have definitions in both directions to better delineate what's included and what's excluded.
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- May 2021
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crookedtimber.org crookedtimber.org
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A former FB executive and long-standing friend of Zuckerberg emailed him in 2012 (page 31) to say “The number one threat to Facebook is not another scaled social network, it is the fracturing of information / death by a thousand small vertical apps which are loosely integrated together.”
And this is almost exactly what the IndieWeb is.
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