If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.
Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.
In our new place and I’m looking forward to finally getting back to working on the Small Web¹ with Kitten², Domain³, and Place⁴.
Only a few bits left to implement in all three before there is a minimum working implementation that others can also easily deploy and play with.
And, hopefully, with the launch of our own Domain instance at small-web.org in 2024, Small Technology Foundation⁵ can start down the road of becoming sustainable (or at least covering our mortage payments) eventually.
Just discovered the concept of "small tech" / "small web" boosted by @laura and @aral :black_bloc_blob:
More interesting than "low tech" or "low web" fashion, powered by and for privacy, interoperability, inclusion with non-colonial nor non-commercial ideas.
Some fights and ideas picked from libre and ethical software movements, cool and mandatory nowadays :blobnomcookie:
Good morning everyone. Some time ago I said that the left needs to stop idolizing the GDPR.
I decided to elaborate on that and explain how and where the political economy of neoliberalism is alive and kicking in the GDPR, how alternatives would look like and how we (don't) get there 👇
Ukraine sees record high number of small, medium sized businesses registered (kyivindependent.com)
In the month of September, 35,587 new small and medium sized businesses were registered in Ukraine, a three-year-high, Opendatabot said on Oct. 11.