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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 12:22:50 UTC Aral Balkan

   The people who don’t want you to run your own servers are the ones who want to run the servers.

   People will happily run their own servers if it’s so simple to do that they don’t even know they’re doing it.

   https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

   #SmallWeb #web0

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 12:23:12 UTC Aral Balkan

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     You want people to run their own servers? Design and build servers for individuals, not communities and let communities arise from the interconnections between those servers.

     Why?

     Because that’s the only way we can compete on ease of use with centralised systems. Not by mimicking their complexity but by side-stepping it. There is orders of magnitude difference in complexity between a system designed to serve just one and one designed to serve one, two, or a hundred thousand.

     #SmallWeb #web0

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 20:47:11 UTC Aral Balkan

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     Centralisation thrives on complexity; decentralisation on simplicity.

     #design #SmallWeb #web0

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 20:47:11 UTC Aral Balkan

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     If we want everyday people to seize the means of communication, we should ensure that those means are easy to hold.

     #design #SmallWeb #web0

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   • CC (kino@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 08:37:21 UTC CC

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     @aral

     ...People will run their own servers.... if ... . they don't even know they are doing it...."
     
     You mean like JS cryptominers running on a webpage, or any peertube instance... 😉

     [Obviously I know you don't mean either of those things, nor do I intend to associate them in any way.

     I'm just trying to be witty, and make a point.]

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 08:42:47 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @kino @aral You are right! If covert cryptocurrency miners needed the victim to set up and configure them, not much CPU would be stolen at all!
     
     So maybe there is something to learn there in terms of seamless (all the way to downright sneaky) deployment and operation! 🤣