@simeon @pavsaund You’ll get no argument on that from me ;) ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-s…

(Apart from perhaps that we should also be looking at designs that aim to make doing what you describe as easy as possible. It’s much easier to set up a system that’s explicitly designed to serve one person than one that is designed to serve 1-100,000 people. The complexity involved is orders of magnitude less in the former.)

#singleTenant #SmallWeb #decentralisation #federation

What is the Small Web?

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: The Small Web.

^{Aral Balkan}

PS. This isn’t some new revelation; I’ve been advocating for this from the start :)

mastodon.social/@aral/2160843

#mastodon #federation #decentralisation #centralisation #design #singleTenant #SmallWeb

The Small Web isn’t about going back to the days of GeoCities. It’s about going forward differently, using modern tech in a non-colonial manner.

It’s not about building clones of Twitter, YouTube, etc. There’s no way anyone can self-host a dozen different services. Instead, it’s about having a single-tenant place on the Web that you own and control without technical knowhow; a place you can add Twitter, YouTube, etc., *features* to.

small-tech.org/research-and-de…

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #SingleTenant

R&D

Building the Small Web: a public space of individually-owned and controlled places.

^{Small Technology Foundation}

Only I’m not an admin. It’s an instance of one. The only person I’m administrating is me. (As it should be.)

#smallWeb #smallTech #singleTenant #personhood

PS. I’m the only person on my instance. It’s an instance of one.

#smallWeb #singleTenant #personhood