open web love / save the internet
indie web manifesto
lu.tiny-universes.net
The indie web, it’s these thousands of websites delivering millions of pages, built up with passion, opinions and information by Net users assuming their rights as citizens. The indie web is a new type of link between people, it’s a free and open space of shared knowledge where vanity has no place.
indie web manifesto
These days many of the best online social experiences happen in very small-scale environments. A few friends, a loose microcommunity, a cozy corner with the right vibes.
It's in the air, thick with it, even, in certain places — the cozyweb, the indieweb, the slow web; tiny internets and run your own social; independent creative communities, local le... See more
It's in the air, thick with it, even, in certain places — the cozyweb, the indieweb, the slow web; tiny internets and run your own social; independent creative communities, local le... See more
Towards Small-Scale Social
Digital Gardens Let You Cultivate Your Own Little Bit of the Internet
technologyreview.comtechnologyreview.com
“The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet’s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge fortunes for a tiny few.”
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
For tech giants, the long period of open internet evolution is over. Their internet is not an ecosystem. It’s a zoo.
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
Ecologists know that diversity is resilience.
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
“With blogging, you’re talking to a large audience,” he says. “With digital gardening, you’re talking to yourself. You focus on what you want to cultivate over time.”