A Website To End All Websites
A Website To End All Websites
The article critiques the current state of the internet, likening its industrialization to the negative effects of widespread automobile adoption, drawing on Ivan Illich's concept of "radical monopoly" from 'Tools for Conviviality.' It advocates for a return to personal, hand-built websites, leveraging IndieWeb protocols like RSS, Webmentions, POSSE, ActivityPub, and microformats, to foster greater autonomy, creativity, and ownership for users, contrasting this with monolithic social media platforms and the commercialized web.
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i'm all for leveraging platforms and technologies that are more open and represent non corporate interests.
i'm not sold on it bringing about some utopia though. i'll settle for "better".
i did appreciate the education on Illich's writings and the notion of "tools for conviviality". mapping concepts to bikes, bike pumps and wrenches to open web tools provides a good roadmap as we look to try and rebuild the web.
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