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Arcane curation from the IndieWeb, Fediverse and Cybersecurity realms
The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies - Island in the Net
islandinthenet.comCoyote’s essay reframes the indie web as an anti-corporate project — but the movement was built by people who owned their data and built their own tools, not by people writing manifestos.
[Favorite] Re; The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies
I concur with Khürt Williams’s argument that the independent web should be defined by what it is for instead of what it is against, and offer additional thoughts.
How LLMs & Chatbots Are Bad For the Indie Web
Large language models and their associated bots are bad for the indie web in at least three ways: 1) their logistical consequences are bad for bandwidth, 2) their social consequences are bad for guides, and 3) their citational consequences are bad for surfability.
Decontextualising the indieweb isn’t being positive, it’s a form of tech fundamentalism
You can hold political thought in contempt as much as you want, but the indieweb can be a response to the threat of tech, and not just a playground for tech-savvy folk.