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1. Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 23:57:41 JST Lili Saintcrow

   "Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within." https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 23:57:35 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     @lilithsaintcrow @laguiri Well, some of us are trying and it would be amazing if folks actually funded us so we could continue to exist and do our work.

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

     https://small-tech.org

     #SmallWeb #SmallTechnologyFoundation #funding #foss #commons

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 00:00:54 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     @lilithsaintcrow @laguiri Because we’re clearly not getting funded from the EU/ngi/NLNet:

     https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/

     https://ar.al/2022/07/29/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain/

     https://ar.al/2022/09/28/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-first-update-questions-and-answers/

     #SmallWeb #Domain #Kitten #Place #funding #EU #NLNet #NGI #Horizon2020