Aral Balkan
I’m a cyborg rights activist, designer and developer at Small Technology Foundation (https://small-tech.org).
Small Web
Small Web
Small Web
Small Web
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Small Web
= peer-to-peer web
Small Web
= peer-to-peer web
A personal web of places owned and controlled by everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.
Small Web
A personal web of places owned and controlled by everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
Small Web
A personal web of places owned and controlled by everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
Small Web
A personal web of places owned and controlled by everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
The goal: Make owning your own place on the web require no technical knowledge and take under a minute.
10 seconds.
Small Web
A personal web of places owned and controlled by everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing.
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
Three interrelated apps.
The goal: Make owning your own place on the web require no technical knowledge and take under a minute.
10 seconds.
Small Web
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
The goal: Make owning your own place on the web require no technical knowledge and take under a minute.
10 seconds.
Three interrelated apps.
Kitten
Domain
Place
A 💕 Small Web development kit
Small Web
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
The goal: Make owning your own place on the web require no technical knowledge and take under a minute.
10 seconds.
Three interrelated apps.
Kitten
Domain
Place
A 💕 Small Web development kit
Developers
🎯
Small Web
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
The goal: Make owning your own place on the web require no technical knowledge and take under a minute.
10 seconds.
Three interrelated apps.
Kitten
Domain
A 💕 Small Web development kit
Developers
🎯
Place
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
10 seconds.
Kitten
Domain
A 💕 Small Web development kit
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
Place
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
10 seconds.
Kitten
Domain
A 💕 Small Web development kit
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
A 💕 Small Web hosting platform
Place
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
10 seconds.
Kitten
Domain
A 💕 Small Web development kit
A 💕 Small Web hosting platform
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
Organisations
🎯
Place
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
10 seconds.
Kitten
Domain
A 💕 Small Web development kit
A 💕 Small Web hosting platform
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
Organisations
🎯
codeberg.org/domain/app
🌍
Place
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
10 seconds.
Kitten
Domain
A 💕 Small Web development kit
A 💕 Small Web hosting platform
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
Organisations
🎯
codeberg.org/domain/app
🌍
A 💕 Small Web personal social network app.
Place
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
10 seconds.
Kitten
Domain
A 💕 Small Web development kit
A 💕 Small Web hosting platform
A 💕 Small Web personal social network app.
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
Organisations
🎯
codeberg.org/domain/app
🌍
Everyday people
🎯
Place
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
10 seconds.
Kitten
Domain
A 💕 Small Web development kit
A 💕 Small Web hosting platform
A 💕 Small Web personal social network app.
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
Organisations
🎯
codeberg.org/domain/app
🌍
Everyday people
🎯
…
🌍
Place
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
10 seconds.
Kitten
Domain
A 💕 Small Web development kit
A 💕 Small Web hosting platform
A 💕 Small Web personal social network app.
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
Organisations
🎯
codeberg.org/domain/app
🌍
Everyday people
🎯
…
🌍
Place
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
10 seconds.
Domain
A 💕 Small Web hosting platform
Organisations
🎯
codeberg.org/domain/app
🌍
A 💕 Small Web personal social network app.
Everyday people
🎯
…
🌍
Kitten
A 💕 Small Web development kit
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
Place
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
10 seconds.
Kitten
Domain
A 💕 Small Web development kit
A 💕 Small Web hosting platform
A 💕 Small Web personal social network app.
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
Organisations
🎯
codeberg.org/domain/app
🌍
Everyday people
🎯
…
🌍
Place
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
10 seconds.
Kitten
A 💕 Small Web development kit
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
Small Web
Domain
A 💕 Small Web hosting platform
Organisations
🎯
codeberg.org/domain/app
🌍
A 💕 Small Web personal social network app.
Everyday people
🎯
…
🌍
Place
Must be: easy, affordable, and useful.
10 seconds.
Small Web
Kitten
Domain
A 💕 Small Web development kit
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
Organisations
🎯
codeberg.org/domain/app
🌍
Everyday people
🎯
…
🌍
A hosting platform
A 💕 Small Web personal social network app.
Place
Small Web
Kitten
Domain
A 💕 Small Web development kit
Developers
🎯
kitten.small-web.org
🌍
Organisations
🎯
codeberg.org/domain/app
🌍
Everyday people
🎯
…
🌍
A hosting platform
A 💕 Small Web personal social network app.
Place
Small Web
By Aral Balkan
Small Web
The Small Web is a web where each one of us can own and control our own places. At these places, we can choose to either be public or, importantly, communicate with each other privately. This decentralised, peer-to-peer web of sovereign individuals stands in stark contrast to the Big Web we have today which – at least in the experience of most everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing – comprises a tiny number of centralised trillion-dollar corporate silos heavily influenced by the whims of a handful of billionaires. As such, the Small Web is an effort to encourage a separate evolution of the web that empowers individuals (instead of corporations and governments) in an effort to safeguard human rights and democracy in the age of the global digital network. In this talk, I will introduce you to the Small Web (including how it differs from the mainstream Big Web), explain its challenges and potential, and demonstrate how Small Web sites can be built using Kitten and hosted using Domain (both experimental tools I’m developing at Small Technology Foundation).
