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   Molly White (molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 05:52:18 JST Molly White

   Many 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/

   #web #newsletter #CitationNeeded

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 15:10:59 JST Aral Balkan

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     @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).

     #SmallWeb

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:41:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ollie Boermans

     @ollicle The two are not mutually exclusive. With today’s web standards Google and Facebook and every other surveillance capitalist out there is helping build a global corporate panopticon. Entirely standards compliant (it helps that they’re the ones writing the standards).

     Web standards are great but they do not imply any ethical framework to what is produced.

     So I’m more interested in how we learn from the past to go forward differently and create a fairer and kinder world.

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     Ollie Boermans (ollicle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:41:54 JST Ollie Boermans

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @molly0xfff I’m not remotely interested in the web past compared to what we can make with today’s web standards.

     I have faith that community can help us bypass the AI rubble.

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     chx (chx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 22:44:39 JST chx

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     @molly0xfff but ... the problem is those spaces were populated with likeminded people because , well , there was nothing else there. What if we build a better mousetrap and the world does not beat a path to our doors? https://smallformfactor.net/forum/ is a practically unique space still with devout followers and yet posts dwindled to so little by now. The halls of the venerable SPCR forum https://silentpcreview.com/forums/ echoes with emptiness too. I do not know how could we rebuild.