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Might expand this into a proper page/post at some point, but it irks me when people talk about personal sites as the "small web". God, no! If anything, the “small web” is social media, where there are, like, four websites and they're each filled with screenshots of the other three. There's a whole wide world out there; nowt “small” about it
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satyrwoud 1 year ago

The same goes for “the old web” — Facebook is older than half the sites on my linkroll, after all. (If i was the CEO of people-who-still-have-personal-websites-in-2023-for-some-reason i'd call it “the free web” in analogy with “the free world”, but that’s liable to get confusing and honestly i’m not sure it’s a coherent movement in the first place)

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brennholz 1 year ago

I'm not sure if that was ever the intended meaning, but I always thought "small web" referred to the size of the webpage, like the idea being that these are small websites that can be maintained by a single person as a non-job, as opposed to "the large web", consisting of content mills run by professionals and social media sites compiling the work of millions of users

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brennholz 1 year ago

With this definition, I think the term works pretty well. Either way, I prefer it over "old web", because that term is kind of geared towards those pages which persue a retro aesthetic, which is only a fraction of the "small web" or whatever you wanna call it. Plus I'm sick of Nostalgia. I say we just call it the "cooler web" and be real smug about it

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satyrwoud 1 year ago

NOSTALGIA DELENDA EST 😤 The Greta von Fleet-ification of the internet must not be allowed to pass

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pseudocinnabar 1 year ago

ive been using "old web" as the in-universe term for smth ive been working on but i may switch that because its a little lame to tether it to "nostalgia" and shit like that. i definitely second "cool web" as a term for this collective zone of the internet, it's just fun.

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pencilvoid 1 year ago

i figured that "old web" was in reference to nostalgia for "web 1.0"/geocities era, which is clearly what motivates the majority of people who make websites here to be honest

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capstasher 1 year ago

Maybe "the Grassroots Web" is more appropriate here.

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