big web → → small web
long overdue: i’m making the moves to ween myself from big tech — less of a boycott, more a reorientation. hyper-focusing or aggrandizing individual action can not be seen as a long-term or effective solution. i’m not yearning for a bygone web; lurking on ICQ, playing muds, and running Heretic II clans and DBZ fansites on geocities but maybe there’s something to these essays and findings: The small web is beautiful, The dark forest theory of the internet, Artificial influencers and the dead internet theory, and just plain slowing down the fire hose and surveillance.
- mail and calendar → Fastmail (secure email isn’t a thing)
- maps → OsmAnd
- search → Marginalia, Perplexity
- ig → Retro (vc backed so i’m expecting this to die / get bought)
- rss / blogs