open web love / save the internet
“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
Digital Gardens Let You Cultivate Your Own Little Bit of the Internet
technologyreview.comtechnologyreview.comThe 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
some of what we need is already here, especially on the web. Look at the resurgence of RSS feeds, email newsletters and blogs, as we discover (yet again) that relying on one app to host global conversations creates a single point of failure and control
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
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... 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... See more
Towards Small-Scale Social
“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.”
technologyreview.com • Digital Gardens Let You Cultivate Your Own Little Bit of the Internet
For tech giants, the long period of open internet evolution is over. Their internet is not an ecosystem. It’s a zoo.