Old but timely piece, related to the NOSTR philosophy, I believe.
On the Big Web, you never own your own home. You must rent your home from Megacorps. Most often, you don’t have to pay for your home using money. You pay for it by forfeiting your privacy, freedom of speech, and your other human rights. Collectively, we pay for it by forfeiting a democratic future.1
The mass surveillance and factory farming of human beings on a global scale is the business model of people farmers like Facebook and Google. It is the primary driver of the socioeconomic system we call surveillance capitalism.
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The Small Web is Your Web The Small Web is for people (not startups, enterprises, or governments). It is also made by people and small, independent organizations (not startups, enterprises, or governments2).
On the Small Web, you (and only you) own and control your own home (or homes).
The Small Web is the Single Tenant Web Small Web applications and sites are single tenant. That means that one server hosts one application that serves just one person: you. On the Small Web, we do not have the concept of “users”. When we refer to people, we call them people.
Another fundamental difference between the Big Web and Small Web is that on the Big Web we trust servers and distrust clients whereas on the Small Web, we distrust servers and trust clients. We treat servers as dumb delivery mechanisms. The client – under the control of the person who owns the site or app – is the only trusted environment.
The piece then goes on to describe Kitten. Although the approach is not exactly the same, the ideas agree quite well with NOSTR where you are the owner of your identity. Servers in NOSTR are like the relays, they are supposed to be dumb (to a certain extent, some have moderation policies), and the clients are where the magic happens. You can choose the client you want that fits your purpose. You own it, although on NOSTR it doesn't seem like you have your own domain.
Maybe someone more knowledgeable on Kitten can explain the differences and similarities with NOSTR.
This sounds complex. But I do like the public key and Nostrs way of doing things.
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