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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 18:48:46 JST Aral Balkan

   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

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 18:48:43 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Thomas H Jones II

     @ferricoxide Not slagging it. (I was on it.) Just stating that the goal is to go forwards differently, not backwards.

   • Thomas H Jones II (ferricoxide@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 18:48:45 JST Thomas H Jones II

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     @aral '

     C'mon, now, don't slag GeoCities: it and its contemporaries had a certain quaint, DIY charm to them.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 21:11:57 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Elan Hasson

     @elan Yeah, distributed search is hard. And even harder to do while respecting the wishes of those being searched. It would be an interesting use case to explore for peer topologies. Would a whisper-like approach work, entwined with different access criteria for different relationships (friends vs not, etc.) 🤔

   • Elan Hasson (elan@publicsquare.global)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 21:11:58 JST Elan Hasson

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     @aral I'd love to chat with you about taking one of the biggest things from big tech and bringing it closer to small tech: Search.

     While it's impossible for everyone to "have their own Google search", I think a coalition of small web folks could get together and build a system that isn't owned by big tech, all sharing the costs of resources.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 18:59:29 JST Aral Balkan

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     • NotSoOldHippy

     @NotSoOldHippy It is silly, isn’t it? Hadn’t considered that. Hmm… Good thing I haven’t devoted my life to building it and actually making it happen or anything. Hehe.

     👋 :awesome:

   • NotSoOldHippy (notsooldhippy@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 18:59:30 JST NotSoOldHippy

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     @aral

     :) But this is silly. :) There's no reason to pretend that one can overlay clones of corporate social media and even remotely compete or, for that matter, interest even a dozen people to join what one creates.

     I'd love to see Twitter die, for example, but it won't happen.