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I’m quite interested in concepts of the “Small Web” and adjacent topics, but it is definitely true that “small web” itself is a vague term that different people use to talk about different kinds of projects. What unites all these different concepts …

The danger and irritations of the modern web have unleashed a movement dedicated to creating a safer and simpler alternative. The old Gopher networ...

When social media gets to be too much, Neocities is there

It’s not what technology does that matters, but who it does it for and who it does it to

My first online interaction, circa 1992, fascinated but also terrified me. I should have taken it as a warning. At the time, computers were just machines you had in your basement. They had programs in them, and you would sit in a chair and use those programs for a while, then go do something else. The whole time you used

Let's use the internet like it's 2005

AndreGarzia.com website

Thanks to the increasing disillusionment with today's Internet, many individuals are creating their own websites. Though some are specifically designed to look like websites from the 1990's, all are original, creative expressions of their owners' personalities, something that is rarely tolerated on the websites of the corporate Internet.

While I don’t care too much about ideas and projects that I believe to be dead ends or maybe even doomed to fail eventually, a recent interaction on Superhighway84 got me to write down a few thoughts on why I believe Project Gemini is a really bad idea.

Hello! We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We are building the Small Web.

End-to-end encrypted IPv6 networking to connect worlds

As I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy and decentralization lately, I had a conversation with a colleague this week, and he commented about how loss of privacy is related to loss of …

I’m going to lead with the technical punch line, and then explain it: Yggdrasil Network is an opportunistic mesh that can be deployed privately or as part of a global-scale network. Each node…

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Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about: The Small Web. To understand what the Small Web is, let’s compare it to the Big Web. In other words, to the centralised Web we have today. The Big Web You are allowed to rent space on Megacorp’s servers in exchange for giving up your privacy, freedom of speech, and other human rights.

In my search to better understand the effects of …

Decentralized certificate authority and naming

USENET-inspired decentralized internet discussion system - GitHub - mrusme/superhighway84: USENET-inspired decentralized internet discussion system