So I'm having a very large, very slow clearout.

I want to get rid of my stuff with minimal use of evil corporate platforms so I'm trying out listing it on my own website.

My sale site is here: epic-attic.co.uk

I've got about 35 items listed so far, maybe 100 or so more to come, once I've taken photos and so on.

This is a real #smallweb project! You have to email me to buy/claim stuff there's no checkout and no tracking or scripts of any sort. EDIT( I just remembered there is one js script to run the image gallery, but it is entirely local and doesn't send or request data anywhere.)

I think we need a hashtag for selling and giving away stuff in the UK (for non business stuff)

What about #SecondHandUK ?

I thought ukForSale initially but that sounds like a political statement.

Is anyone else selling off their excess stuff in the UK? Should we start a #webring?

#ForSale #freecycle #fleamarket #flohmarkt

If you or anybody you know in or near #Mayo #CoMayo that is interested in #solar #smallsolar #SmallWeb installs, please join this workshop

remote.wilderland.ie/events/pe…

To figure out what is needed for a solar install, and how to size it. I have a few examples of some mini wind turbines I'll put up as well, for kicks

More workshops being announced soon! See remote.wilderland.ie

Cambiar Internet desde lo sencillo, desde lo pequeño
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Ante la toxicidad de las redes digitales hay otras formas que visibilizar, que practicar

La web pequeña. Sí se puede!

#ComunalidadDigital #DerechosDigitalesColectivos
#SmallWeb

sursiendo.org/2024/07/cambiar-…

Food for thought: The bigger mastodon.social gets, the less successful the #fediverse is.

Sadly, the fundamental design of Mastodon mirrors the design of Big Tech (a server architecture that can support hundreds of thousands of “users”) and thus inherits its success criteria.

I feel it’s time we at least started thinking about what the web would look like if we all had our own place on it and what it would take to get there from here.

#decentralisation #centralisation #fediverse #SmallWeb

We should not be optimising Mastodon so it can handle more people per server. We should be optimising Mastodon so it incentivises more serves with fewer people.

(And if you take that line of thinking to its logical conclusion, you arrive at the idea behind the Small Web: ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-s…)

#decentralisation #federation #fediverse #SmallWeb

What is the Small Web?

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.

^{Aral Balkan}

Just finished my talk. A panel in Norwegian is now discussing it in Oslo. Will post the recording once it’s up.

#BigTech #SmallTech #BigWeb #SmallWeb

web0 manifesto

“…web0 is web3 without all the corporate right-libertarian Silicon Valley bullshit.”

web0.small-web.org

Sign your name and join me in starting the year as you mean to go on: without tolerating any bullshit.

Happy New Year! 😀

#web0 #SmallWeb #SmallTech

The Small Web isn’t about going back to the days of GeoCities. It’s about going forward differently, using modern tech in a non-colonial manner.

It’s not about building clones of Twitter, YouTube, etc. There’s no way anyone can self-host a dozen different services. Instead, it’s about having a single-tenant place on the Web that you own and control without technical knowhow; a place you can add Twitter, YouTube, etc., *features* to.

small-tech.org/research-and-de…

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #SingleTenant

R&D

Building the Small Web: a public space of individually-owned and controlled places.

^{Small Technology Foundation}