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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/

@aral I believe every household should have a server, and for most services you'd access your own server from anywhere rather than someone else's. In a world where governments and big tech believe censorship is their right and duty, we have no choice but to own the infrastructure together.
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@aral I think that is something that can be the next big thing.

I've got a NAS that has a bunch of pacakages you can install including nextcloud. It doesn't include what I think you'd need, but something like what you're talking about would be perfect -- it's a big change in looking at the world realizing that our Internet connections are 2-way.

Best of luck to you on that!

@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.

@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.

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