Invasive tracking and pay-for-play search engines has broken the internet. It’s time to reclaim our independence with the Small Web.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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Well, we're totally doing this and it's working quite alright if you ask me.
"We" have been battling giants and absolute war machines for decades and...we're still here, right? Open source software is running 90% of servers, and driving the innovation faster than ever. It's supporting their shitty techbros empires and letting them live their wicked dreams just because the anarco-communist principles put freedom as the centermost value of all of this. Isn't it?
All the while, aren't we totally enjoying our small web world already? As many of us have pointed in the comments? We won't cure tiktok adrelin addicted kids by inviting them into a webring. And I don't think I even want them in before they're cured anyway. Prohibiting greedy capitalist from poisoning our children isn't our technological endeavour. We fight back, protect ourselves, and prepare the world after. But it's a bigger problem than the fediverse, isn't it?
Anyway, I propose we selfhost a lot of good stuff and get kids addicted to robbing giants, waddaya think? Yar