Bookmarked: What is the Small Web?

Bookmarked What is the Small Web? (ar.al)

The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit. We farm users in server farms.

The Small Web is for people (not startups, enterprises, or governments). It is also made by people and small, independent organisations (not startups, enterprises, or governments2).

I got site.js up and running on my raspberry pi for a while. Pretty straightforward (I managed the certs stuff eventually).

The idea of The Small Web is the sort of thing I’ve been interested in since I started blogging. I’d love Glow to do something like this for educators (Glow Blogs is part way there, government hosting for some (educators) of its citizens).

Hope to dig into this some more. All the ideas are just lovely!