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Yes, by all means let's get back to a more decentralized and distributed web. But providing a service where you are still hosting your site on someone else's servers and on someone else's domain and calling for values is just digital green-washing.
Would a "small web" require giving up search, recommendation engines, upvotes, etc. Doesn't something like hn necessarily require centralization?
I think HN is still small web. It's custom-written by one or a few people, doesn't make money, isn't trying to take over the world.
This is the same guy who ran that complete shambles of a vapourware project a few years back to build a smartphone right? This sounds exactly the same in that it's some vanity project under the guise of being indie or privacy focused but all he's really looking for is some more cash. I'd probably continue to steer well clear.
There are so many ways to get money, I fail to see this route as a cash-grabbing attempt.
I, for one, like his ideas and attempts at building something with meaning. Even if he fails at every single project, the ideas are here and that's good, I guess.
At least we're talking about it around something, not just words.
I'm generally on board with the sentiment, but some of this rhetoric is a bit much, even for me. > The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit. Come on now, "user" as in "computer user" was a term in use since long before the web.
They requested their account deleted. I deleted it.
The article is entirely confusing. The web is intrinsically 'small' - anyone can register a domain name and run a server. And link to Github, arguably more 'big' than 'Big Web' as defined in the article. iOS apps? Centralising around site.js?
Makes no sense.
As an independent owner of a few web properties, this provides a solution, and not much of a solution, to a problem that's entirely self-prescribed.
I also noted, as there's nothing like a needle in a haystack, small-tech.org is registered via 1api.net, never heard of them before despite
> 1API GmbH is one of Europe's s leading domain name registrars and is recognized as a preeminent developer of world-class domain name platforms. 1API currently manages more than 3,000,000 Domains.
Yet Terms of Service notes
> Prices. The prices charged to you for the Services are published on the Website (“Pricing Schedule”) and are subject to modifications at 1API’s sole discretion. Unless otherwise specified, all amounts are stated herein are in Canadian Dollars.
German-Canadian registrar. Interesting.
I'm generally on board with the sentiment, but some of this rhetoric is a bit much, even for me. > The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit. Come on now, "user" as in "computer user" was a term in use since long before the web.
This is the same guy who ran that complete shambles of a vapourware project a few years back to build a smartphone right? This sounds exactly the same in that it's some vanity project under the guise of being indie or privacy focused but all he's really looking for is some more cash. I'd probably continue to steer well clear.
So he failed a project, an idea and a huge one at that with every possibility to fail. There are so many ways to get money, I fail to see this route as a cash-grabbing attempt. I, for one, like his ideas and attempts at building something with meaning. Even if he fails at every single project, the ideas are here and that's good, I guess. At least we're talking about it around something , not just words.
I’m not sure if I’m 100% sold on this. The service sounds like ( in their own terms ) “Big WEB” but the in a server that is... “owned”? By the user renting that server. Honestly it just sounds like every other server farm out there. Rent a server, put your data on it, hope the service doesn’t go down and trust that the company isn’t selling your data behind your back. Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea they propose.…
It's less convenient that renting a VM or VPS somewhere and that is again less convenient than a fully managed web presence, but you can do it.