Jeez, either they are high, or I am! What an unsubstantiated load claims.
> You hear a lot of talk about blockchains and proof of work but this is not what the Small Web is about. Having a billion copies of the same database is not decentralisation. That’s centralisation. If you have a billion people having [...] unique databases is decentralisation.
Really? This ignores the hard learned facts that, despite the claim that "on the Small Web, we distrust servers and trust clients", clients in reality can be malicious. Sitting in a circle and singing kumbaya does not prevent from attackers. Best case is, it slows them down, because they have to shake off the laughter first.
> Currently, all our developer tools and technical infrastructure comes from Big Tech and the Big Web.
Well, that is obviously not true! The foundation of the web stems from military and academic origins. The open source movement is strong, Linux is the most used OS for servers. The list goes on.
The list of claims on could debunk is too long for my cup of coffee!
If that's what they refer to as vision, then count me out. I must be miles away from that level of "enlightenment"!
Just to make clear: I am all for people hosting there blogs and webpages themselves. Medium is awful, blogger does not even load with the browser plugins that I use. I am all for distrusting servers, using uBlock Origin, uMatrix, a big hosts file and your brain are good first steps. But I also am all for distrusting the client. What I can't stand is blog posts like these, throwing around half-truths, claims, and unreflected ideology for the purpose of money (they want donations) and publicity (they want donations). \s