#bigweb — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bigweb, aggregated by home.social.
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#Development #Analyses
Browsers treat big sites differently · When a site is big enough, the rules quietly change https://ilo.im/16cx88_____
#Quirks #Safari #Firefox #Chrome #Browsers #WebStandards #BigWeb #SmallWeb #WebDev #Frontend -
#Development #Analyses
Browsers treat big sites differently · When a site is big enough, the rules quietly change https://ilo.im/16cx88_____
#Quirks #Safari #Firefox #Chrome #Browsers #WebStandards #BigWeb #SmallWeb #WebDev #Frontend -
#Development #Analyses
Browsers treat big sites differently · When a site is big enough, the rules quietly change https://ilo.im/16cx88_____
#Quirks #Safari #Firefox #Chrome #Browsers #WebStandards #BigWeb #SmallWeb #WebDev #Frontend -
#Development #Analyses
Browsers treat big sites differently · When a site is big enough, the rules quietly change https://ilo.im/16cx88_____
#Quirks #Safari #Firefox #Chrome #Browsers #WebStandards #BigWeb #SmallWeb #WebDev #Frontend -
#Business #Mindsets
The boring internet · “The internet you grew up on is not gone.” https://ilo.im/16cqvt_____
#Internet #Web #History #WebTechnology #AI #Dezentralization #Communities #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb -
#Business #Mindsets
The boring internet · “The internet you grew up on is not gone.” https://ilo.im/16cqvt_____
#Internet #Web #History #WebTechnology #AI #Dezentralization #Communities #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb -
#Business #Mindsets
The boring internet · “The internet you grew up on is not gone.” https://ilo.im/16cqvt_____
#Internet #Web #History #WebTechnology #AI #Dezentralization #Communities #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb -
#Business #Mindsets
The boring internet · “The internet you grew up on is not gone.” https://ilo.im/16cqvt_____
#Internet #Web #History #WebTechnology #AI #Dezentralization #Communities #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb -
“But now things suck even for me and I’m sad!”
Oh, the gravy train ran out of gravy, did it? Something about leopards eating people’s faces?
Here, have a very fucking tiny violin.
🎻
#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism
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“How could we have known?!”
Maybe if you’d listened to those of us warning you – often times your own damn friends – instead of siding with the corporations that paid your salaries/consulting fees/sponsored your conferences/invited you to parties and bought you free booze…
🤷♂️
#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism
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So we can see a path where the web of documents (#4opens #smallweb) is pushed away from the web of apps (#dotcons #bigweb).
This is a functional path for sustaining the alt tech path as the #smallweb is much more #KISS thus #DIY than the mess we have in the "bigweb". We likely need a better framing than this...
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#Business #Analyses
Does Google want to kill the web? · “Google says market forces, I say their misuse of AI.” https://ilo.im/167abv_____
#Google #SearchEngine #AI #Publishing #Content #Website #BigWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #OpenWeb -
#Development #Analyses
Passkeys and modern authentication · Let’s consider whether this is really what we want https://ilo.im/166klm_____
#Business #BigWeb #Gatekeepers #Authentication #Passkeys #PasswordManagers #WebDev #Frontend #Backend #Pitfalls -
🎶 One of these things is not like the other…🎶
Can you spot the difference kids?
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #BigWeb #BigTech #LinkedIn #PersonalWebSite
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#Development #Analyses
The orders of complexity of websites · Why big web features fail small websites https://ilo.im/164nnv_____
#Simplicity #Complexity #WebPlatform #WebTechnology #Websites #WebApps #CMS #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb -
“AI has adopted colonialism as its business model: Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving much back.” — Tim O’Reilly
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#Business #AI #Profits #BusinessModel #BigWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #OpenWeb #Website #Content #Quotes -
#Business #Threats
The new digital world order? · “A new form of power has been quietly taking shape.” https://ilo.im/160022_____
#Internet #Web #Power #Politics #Country #Democracy #Government #Corporation #TechCompany #BigWeb -
#Development #Guidelines
How I ship projects at big tech companies · “The most common error I see is to assume that shipping is easy.” https://ilo.im/160tp3_____
#Shipping #Projects #BigWeb #Leadership #Communication #Collaboration #Deploying #WebDev #Pitfalls #Mindsets -
#Business #Guides
You should be using an RSS reader · “RSS will nudge the whole internet towards a better state.” https://ilo.im/160hnd_____
#SocialMedia #Publishing #Subscription #WebFeed #Syndication #RSS #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb #Enshittification -
Are you a privacy professional? Would you like to work with companies like Google and Facebook to help them continue to violate our privacy? The W3C has a job for you.
Pays well, by the way (violating human rights always does).
https://www.w3.org/careers/2024-privacy-lead-job-posting/
#W3C #hiring #webPrivacy #web #privacy #humanRights #privacyWashing #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #BigWeb #google #facebook
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@w3c You forgot to add that the position will involve privacywashing your surveillance capitalist members like Google, Facebook, etc.
You are the standards body of surveillance capitalism, after all.
#hiring #webprivacy #BigWeb #BigTech #w3c #privacy #privacyWashing #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming
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You’re literally the standards body of surveillance capitalism. Shut the fuck up about privacy. The corporate members that fund your existence violate privacy as the core driver of their business models.
Fucking hypocrites doing fucking PR.
#W3C #privacy #privacyWashing #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #BigWeb #PR https://w3c.social/@w3c/114551380634183119
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I wrote this five years ago:
“Democracy or capitalism? Pick one.
If, like me, you grew up in the 80s, you probably unthinkingly accepted the neoliberal maxim that democracy and capitalism go hand-in-hand. This is one of the greatest lies ever told. Democracy and capitalism are polar opposites.
You cannot have a functional democracy and billionaires and trillion-dollar corporate interests and Silicon Valley’s Big Tech misinformation and exploitation machinery. What we’re seeing is the clash of capitalism and democracy and capitalism is winning.
Are we past a tipping point? I don’t know. Perhaps. But we can’t think like that.
Personally, I’m going to keep working to effect change where I feel I can be effective: in creating alternative technological infrastructure to support individual freedoms and democracy.
We’ve already laid the infrastructure of techno-fascism. We’ve already created (and are creating) the panopticons. All the fascists need to do is move in and take the controls. And they will do so democratically, before destroying democracy, just as Hitler did.
And if you think the 1930s and 40s were something, remember that the most advanced tools to amplify the destructive ideologies of the time were less powerful than the computers you have in your pockets today. Today we have machine learning and are on the brink of unlocking quantum computing.
We must ensure the 2030s are not like the 1930s. Because our advanced centralised systems of data capture, classification, and prediction plus a hundred years of exponential increase in processing power (note: I do not use the word “progress”) mean the 2030s will be exponentially worse.
Whoever you are, wherever you are, we have a common enemy: the nationalist international. The problems of our time transcend national borders. The solutions must also. The systems we build must be both local and global at once. The network we must build is one of solidarity.
We created the present. We will create the future. Let’s work together to ensure that that future is the one we want to live in ourselves.”
– In 2020 and beyond, the battle to save personhood and democracy requires a radical overhaul of mainstream technology
And that’s why I’m working on building the Small Web.
https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
With ZERO funding from the EU and multiple rejections from NLNet/ngi (because they still don’t get it).
https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/
(That’s from 2022. We were also rejected in 2024 for my work on Kitten, Domain, and Place as outlined in my talk, linked below, but I was too tired to write about it again.)
https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/
So for fuck’s sake, if you agree with my vision for a technological (and thus societal) future different from the hellscape we currently inhabit, and want to help us explore one possible path towards it, please fund our damn work. (Because, clearly, the EU is adamant about not doing so.)
https://small-tech.org/fund-us/
Other ways to help:
- If you know of folks that are ethically compatible who offer no strings funding, please try to secure some for us (my time is 100% spent on coding at the moment).
- If you know of conferences that pay their speakers, ask them to have me speak on the Small Web. It can be as technical or non-technical as you like and I won’t do it for free but I’m happy to accept, within reason, what they can afford (in addition to travel and accommodation being covered) and any fees received go to Small Technology Foundation, our not-for-profit.
- Help share this far and wide.
Once Domain is released and we have the first Small Web host running on small-web.org – hopefully the first of many that will be run by other folks in the future – and we start taking commercial sign-ups for Small Web places, we should eventually have the money problem solved (because apparently that’s a problem you have to solve to gain the privilege of working for the common good in our world because our system is unabashedly shortsighted).
So, yeah, anyway, g’morning! How’s your day going so far? :)
(You made it this far? You deserve a hug. And don’t worry, I’m just venting. Things will get better. It’s just frustrating swimming upstream all the time.)
💕
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #humanRights #democracy #anarchy #BigWeb #BigTech #capitalism #neoliberalism #technoFascism #technology #fascism #society #freedom #personhood
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#Business #Trends
The closed web · “The broader trend toward a more closed web remains deeply concerning.” https://ilo.im/161yvz_____
#OpenWeb #ClosedWeb #BigWeb #Websites #Adoption #Visibility #Paywalls #AI #Bots #APIs -
“Friction, in the digital world, is important. Everything is already moving at a pace that’s not really compatible with the way humans work. We need digital speed bumps to remind us that going slow sometimes is preferable.” — Manuel Moreale
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#Business #Friction #HumanWeb #SlowWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb #InstantWeb #Automation #Quotes -
#Design #Inspirations
Making space for a handmade web · Some ideas to inspire a different kind of web https://ilo.im/161rx8_____
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We lost. The big web won. The web is dead. A pessimistic and doomery observation of the state of the web and how it's rotting. Written by an imperfect human who's just feeling this right now.
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Funny how, a decade ago, they called us “tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists” for suggesting such things and we were shunned by “respectable” folks in the web community afraid to lose their favoured status as Big Tech’s bottom feeders.
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #capitalism #surveillance #BigWeb #web #SmallTech #ethicalTech #privacy #humanRights https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/113489107039210087
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“We can return to that place where the web is a place of wonder, where all of us feel that same burning feeling of excitement as we push the web back towards the wonderful, beautiful, joyful place it ought to be.” — Molly White
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#Business #Joy #Creativity #BigWeb #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Web #Website #Blog #Quote -
React + Next.js vs Kitten: developer experience, getting started (cont.)
In fact, it’s even faster if you install Kitten first (the equivalent of installing Node.js first, basically).
Kitten is still up and running with the Kitten Kawaii web site in ~18 seconds.
So that thing about web frameworks and workflows being slow… that’s a Big Web thing.
Full blog post: https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/
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React + Next.js vs Kitten: developer experience, getting started (cont.)
So it takes ~30 seconds to get the React + Next.js web site up and running…
How long does it take for Kitten?
~3 seconds.
Full blog post: https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/
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Are you a privacy professional? Would you like to work with companies like Google and Facebook to help them continue to violate our privacy? The W3C has a job for you.
Pays well, by the way (violating human rights always does).
https://www.w3.org/careers/2024-privacy-lead-job-posting/
#W3C #hiring #webPrivacy #web #privacy #humanRights #privacyWashing #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #BigWeb #google #facebook
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@w3c You forgot to add that the position will involve privacywashing your surveillance capitalist members like Google, Facebook, etc.
You are the standards body of surveillance capitalism, after all.
#hiring #webprivacy #BigWeb #BigTech #w3c #privacy #privacyWashing #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming