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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


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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.
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#SmallWeb #foss #technology #freesoftware #tech #opensource #web #dev #SmallTech #funding

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
#SmallWeb #Capitalism #tech #bigtech #SmallTech #ethics #vc #BigWeb

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Hello, new fedinauts, I’m Aral. I live on the Emerald Isle with my partner in crime Laura and our trusty sidekick Oskar the huskamute.

I’m working on building the Small Web¹ as an ethical alternative to the Big Web.

Please feel free to say hi. I don’t bite (unless you’re a proud surveillance capitalist/people farmer or a douchebag billionaire) 😀

:kitten:💕

¹ https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

#twitterMigration #SmallWeb

What is the Small Web?

Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player.
Aral Balkan
#SmallWeb #introduction #twittermigration

Wait, what?… you don’t mean that your all-important secret for your Small Web site is going to be… A STRING OF EMOJI?!*

(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
Screenshot of Kitten running an app at ~/sandbox/kitten-auth-test-1 (git main branch, 62 changes). Alongside the normal output there is a highlighted box labelled IMPORTANT! that reads: “This line of emoji is your secret <line of emoji follows> It will not be shown again. Please save your secret in your password manager.”
#security #SmallWeb #privacy #design #SmallTech #cryptography #kitten

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.

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
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