"Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within." https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
We Need To Rewild The Internet
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.NOEMA
Aral Balkan
in reply to Lili Saintcrow • • •@laguiri Well, some of us are trying and it would be amazing if folks actually funded us so we could continue to exist and do our work.
https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
https://small-tech.org
https://small-tech.org/fund-us
#SmallWeb #SmallTechnologyFoundation #funding #foss #commons
What is the Small Web?
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@laguiri Because we’re clearly not getting funded from the EU/ngi/NLNet:
https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/
https://ar.al/2022/07/29/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain/
https://ar.al/2022/09/28/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-first-update-questions-and-answers/
#SmallWeb #Domain #Kitten #Place #funding #EU #NLNet #NGI #Horizon2020
NLnet Grant Application for Domain
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