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So did I mention that no company or government pays me for the work I do?
But you can support my work if you want to live in a world where we have the Small Web as an alternative to the Big Web of Google, Facebook, and other people farmers.
https://small-tech.org/fund-us
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #funding #foss #freeSoftware #openSource #web #dev #tech #technology
Fund Small Technology Foundation
We’re a tiny team of two funded by individuals like you. Your patronage goes towards keeping a roof over our heads as we build a better future for the Internet.Fund Small Technology Foundation
I love how this “Created by AI, edited by humans” summary of the chat I had with Doc this month starts off mildly enough with “A great chat on FLOSS Weekly regarding alternate funding models to support ethical tech projects…“ and ends a few paragraphs later with “…Balkan provided an urgent call to action to avoid extinction at the hands of unchecked capitalism.”
Well that escalated quickly!
😬 👍
https://twit.tv/posts/inside-twit/aral-balkan-calls-new-funding-models-support-ethical-tech
#tech #ethics #BigTech #SmallTech #BigWeb #SmallWeb #VC #capitalism
Aral Balkan Calls For New Funding Models to Support Ethical Tech | TWiT.TV
On a recent episode of FLOSS Weekly, hosts Doc Searls and Dan Lynch spoke to open-source advocate Aral Balkan about the need for alternate funding models to support ethical technol…TWiT.tv
Self-hosting anything is incredibly stressful, often requiring you to be skilled as a system administrator to the point where you could make a living off of it.
I know why, of course.
Capitalism rewards enclosure. Money flows to companies who want customers on their terms, so solutions are designed to service thousands of people and for professionals to operate.
We need #SmallTech.
(Why yes, yes it is…) :awesome:
* Or, if you want to take all the fun out of it, a base256 encoding of your ed25519 private key that is purposefully impractical to write down somewhere or type in so you’ll be forced to practice good security hygiene and store it in your password manager.
#design #security #privacy #cryptography #kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech
Currently most documentation is poor or already expects a certain level of understanding.
I should be able to ask "How does my system manage audio?" and be guided through a giant yak-shaving exercise without any former knowledge of audio systems
Can we document software that well?
#CooperativeTechnology #SmallTech
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.
https://small-tech.org/research-and-development/
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #SingleTenant
R&D
Building the Small Web: a public space of individually-owned and controlled places.Small Technology Foundation