Dissolving GAFAM, a bit at a time

“We need to re-decentralise the web” @TimBl, 2014

“You are never too small to make a difference”
Greta Thunberg, 2018, Katowice






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Situation 2018

Core Problems with those monopolies

Interlude I: Conways law (1968)

Interlude II: Hammer finds Nail

Response

I do microblog with mro.name/shaarligo, thoughts appreciated.

Addendum I: Simplicity & Empowerment

indieweb.org, self-hosting, solid, libre software (fsfe.org), ‘lean software’ (N. Wirth, 1995), suckless.org, ‘a domain of ones own’, vernacular web, pinboard.in, ‘complexity is killing us’, ‘website obesity crisis’ (2015)

just to name a few.

Addendum II: Self-hosting

The 4 essential ‘easies’, inspired by the freedoms of software: