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On the #BigWeb, the "rent" would mostly be paid by users "by forfeiting your privacy, freedom of speech, and your other human rights" [1]

"On the #SmallWeb, you (and only you) own and control your own home (or homes)"

This "vision for the future is one where every person owns and controls their own place on our shared global network" [1]

#Reference

[1] Balkan, A., 2023. What is the Small Web? In: Aral Balkan blog. https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
(archived at https://purl.org/INRMM-MiD/z-LPTPLW2U )

@aral

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A definition by @aral on #SmallWeb versus #BigWeb

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110598973780927276

"The Big Web is the centralised web; it is a web in the sense of a spider’s web [...] The Big Web has “users”": one "can fit thousands of users into a single server and Megacorps “scale” to run thousands upon thousands of servers in their farms" [1]

"On the Big Web, you never own your own home. You must rent your home from Megacorps. Most often, you don’t have to pay for your home using money" [1]
#decentralisation

Big Web folks: Performance is the most important thing.

Also Big Web folks: let’s make every web page a real-time auction where you’re sold off to the highest bidder.

You wouldn’t have to be so obsessed with performance if you weren’t trying to hide all the shady shit you’re pulling in the background.

#BigWeb #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #SiliconValley #adTech #VC

Big Web folks: Performance is the most important thing.

Also Big Web folks: let’s make every web page a real-time auction where you’re sold off to the highest bidder.

You wouldn’t have to be so obsessed with performance if you weren’t trying to hide all the shady shit you’re pulling in the background.

#BigWeb #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #SiliconValley #adTech #VC

@jensimmons If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last decade, it’s that’s the Web Industry™ doesn’t like having its hypocrisies pointed out.

(And they will happily ostracise you for it and circle the wagons rather than engage in even the most basic introspection.)

#surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #web #BigWeb

@lightning @w3c Surveillance capitalists, you know, like Google, Meta, Adobe… corporations that make their money by tracking and profiling people and using that intimate insight into their lives to exploit them for profit.

Basically, the corporations that make up the Big Web that the fediverse provides some modicum of respite from.

#surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #BigWeb

@w3c Just out of curiosity, how many of your members would you say are surveillance capitalists?

#mastodon #fediverse #w3c #BigWeb #BigTech #surveillanceCapitalism

@evan @cwebber @rhiaro @erincandescent @tsyesika @Annbass @lehors

Note, I’m talking about design, not decoration.

What’s the difference? Have a watch: https://vimeo.com/281704944

#design #decoration #BigTech #SmallTech #BigWeb #SmallWeb

Do not adopt the success criteria of Big Tech lest you should become Big Tech.

#decentralisation #design #fediverse #BigTech #SmallTech #BigWeb #SmallWeb

Just finished my talk. A panel in Norwegian is now discussing it in Oslo. Will post the recording once it’s up.

#BigTech #SmallTech #BigWeb #SmallWeb

Your daily reminder that the alternative to Big Tech is Small Tech and the alternative to Big Web is Small Web.

Help us make them exist.

https://small-tech.org/research-and-development

#BigTech #SmallTech #BigWeb #SmallWeb