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Yeah but we need a name and a recognizable advocacy position. The open web, the indie web, minimalists, even luddites are related terms, but nothing really fits
by simpaticoder 3y ago
Yeah but we need a name and a recognizable advocacy position. The open web, the indie web, minimalists, even luddites are related terms, but nothing really fits. Then there is the community, the scene - like a webring, but better. Dignified, driven by a simple, solid technical aesthetic, capable, self-sufficient, independent, rational, (classic) liberal, etc. Those are some adjectives I associate with these ideas. I don't know the answer, I'm thinking out loud. (I was excited by the indieweb label but it sounds good but its off-putting with levels of compliance and weird microformat stuff. It's not focused on the important universal qualities and distracted by details of technical implementation.).
- CuriousSkeptic 3y agoHow about “sustainable web”? It could surf a bit on already established efforts in other domains and the narrative seem to fit with those ideas I think.
- stavros 3y agoThe small web?
- jack_riminton 3y agoThe basic web? hear me out... why has hacker news remained steadfastly under the radar? in part because it looks like an academic message board of the 90's If intelligently produced text content is what is needed then perhaps we need to design a format that excludes, if not automatically diminishes, images and videos
- jack_riminton 3y agoHow about non-ad web? imo all of the ills come from misaligned incentives to extract ad/marketing money
- flenserboy 3y agoThe Useful Web.
- lowtech8 3y agoHow about Real Intelligence web (RW) or Human Web (HW)?
- simpaticoder 3y agoSlept on it. How about "No Web". It's a pun in english (no and know) and also an oblique reference to Herbert's Dune universe "No Ships", who's interiors are invisible to prescience. A fleet of no ships on an internet with ~6 kwizatz haderachs captures a resistance element. The name is a bit strange, too, attracting the intellectually curious.
- ftigis 3y agoweb0? Edit: I have not heard of it before this suggestion, but it turns out that this is something that already exists.
- simpaticoder 3y agoThat term leads me to a handful of related sites put together by a 2-person web agency in Ireland. It's the right direction! https://small-tech.org/ https://small-tech.org/ https://web0.small-web.org/ https://web0.small-web.org/