If, on the other hand, maybe we’d like more folks to contribute to the commons and maybe not even be captured by Silicon Valley how about this radical idea: Fund them so they can live (at least as well) as any mediocre yes-person at a mainstream tech company.

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@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

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What is the Small Web?

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