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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.
@aral Why can't anyone self-host a dozen services?They don't even all need to be uniformly up and secure all the time.
Our goal should be to automate the running of 1 svc so a dozen doesn't seem daunting to anyone.
@drewp Yes, if we do latter (and if we optimise such services for ownership and control by individuals, not corporations or governments) then there’s no reason why you can’t.
My point was that you cannot expect everyday folks to self host a dozen of today’s multi-user services that are, for the most part, facsimiles of big-tech design, including all their complexity.
@aral Agree! But even one big-tech-style multi-user svc is probably too much.
We need to change expectations and highlight good examples of projects optimized for self-hosting. E.g. home automation may have an advantage, since at least part of it *has* to be self-hosted.
Also, bring back 'home pages' and let them be self-hosted.