ekes
@smallcircles @fredsarm @PeterBronez @mitexleo @help @xrobau @aral @laura
Peer-to-peer solutions are not appropriate for social media.
You will always end up building hubs where people want to gather, organize, proxy through, store data, and so on.
A federated network offers the most realistic compromise on this front with incentives for all participating actors.
ekes
@smallcircles @fredsarm @PeterBronez @mitexleo @help @xrobau @aral @laura
Anything decentralized that isn't purely p2p is essentially a federation. As such, small web is just another protocol alternative like Nostr.
Even the marketing language reminds me of crypto and vc startups.
Imho, what we need are better tools allowing the decentralized web to compete with both the established and upcoming businesses, rather than the 15th standard.
smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)
@ekes @fredsarm @PeterBronez @mitexleo @help @xrobau @aral @laura
My view is that hybrid #decentralization is where we'll go. Having both federated services as well as #p2p cients and they each have their own use cases where they shine.
Aral Balkan
@ekes We’re the exact opposite of crypto and VC startups so I’m sorry you feel that way. Our “marketing” is just two people trying to explain what they’re building.
If that’s not your cup of tea, that’s perfectly fine.
We’re building what we’re building and the only thing I can promise you is that it’s going to exist.
What happens after that is anyone’s bet.
@smallcircles @fredsarm @PeterBronez @mitexleo @help @xrobau @laura
smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)
@ekes @fredsarm @PeterBronez @mitexleo @help @xrobau @aral @laura
I see #SmallWeb more as a philosophy. A means of approaching technology and build things in ways that are more in tune with what people actually need. The human-scale web.
Aral is building comprehensive and intuitive tools that conform to this philosophy. That's all. This is not about the Nth protocol.. that's tech details.
Might have a look at the #SmallTech principles at https://small-tech.org if you hadn't seen them yet.
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