A Better Internet
Currently, it feels like most of the internet is a machine designed to destroy peace, joy, sanity, and democracy. That's because it kind of is. Businesses that rely on ad revenue and/or selling user data (it's usually both) are inherently, inevitably, in a race to the bottom. Giant platforms invest billions into being maximally engaging, everything platforms we can never leave, no matter the cost.
And it's not good for any of us.
What's more, I don't like it. That's what brought me here to the indie web, the personal web, the small web, web 1.5, whatever you want to call it. I'm glad you're here, too. I hope you'll find something valuable out here, outside the purview of the billionaires and hedgefunds and planet-and-soul-gobbling elites who control far too much of our day to day.
If you'd like to learn more about this website, check out the webweaving links I've shared. If the topic of what the internet is and how to do it better interests you, you might find some of these resources helpful:
- Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shosana Zuboff - still on my TBR
- What Is To Be Done by CJ the Hex
- Webmaster: A Manifesto by Brennan.Day
- The definitive guide for escaping social media (and joining the indie web.) - checking this one out
- The Opt Out Project