Andrew Adams @adamsandy@librem.one

So, yeah, regardless of whether we receive any funding or not I’m going to keep doing the only thing I can, which is to keep working on making the Small Web exist (https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/).

And the goal is that once we get to the point where we (and anyone else who wants to) can host Small Web places, that will hopefully make us sustainable (because clearly we can’t depend on public funding).

But it sure as hell would be nicer if we didn’t have to keep living a precarious existence until then.

Folks: where’s the alternative to the trillion-dollar surveillance capitalists you’re working on? Why isn’t it ready yet?

Also folks: Here’s your €457/mo war chest… don’t spend it all in one place now!

(I can’t express how grateful I am to our patrons over the years but how the fuck do we compete when we live in a world where some random techbro raises $2.6M to build a people farming social network where you can only say “Yo!“ while we struggle to pay the rent?)

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

Spoke with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch yesterday about Small Tech, Small Web and more for FLOSS Weekly.

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/753

#SmallTech #SmallWeb #Kitten #FOSS #FLOSSWeekly #Twit #interview #viseo

Big Tech went to shit.
Big Tech was always shit.

#BigTech #SiliconValley

Mozilla is a for-profit not-for-profit. And that’s all you need to know to explain everything that doesn’t seem to make sense about the chasm between what they say and what they do.

#mozilla #hypocritical #bullshit

The Small Web is the personal web. It’s the peer-to-peer web.

There’s no concept of ‘users’ on the Small Web. You own and control your own place on it. With your place, you can be public should you so desire and follow each other’s activity but you can also be private – actually private, i.e., communicate via end-to-end encrypted messages.

It’s very early days and it’s not ready for use yet but you can find out more and follow along:

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
https://ar.al/2023/02/20/end-to-end-encrypted-kitten-chat/

#SmallWeb