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What is the Small Web? (ar.al)
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Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player. Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about:

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[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit.

  • tell me you're literally making shit up without telling me.

actual, reliable source

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah I had to do a 'wtf' then as well. We had 'users' before we had internet -_-

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly, "users" goes back to the main frame days of the '60s when the users were all part of a company or university.

[-] sik0fewl@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

While I have no doubt that that etymology is completely made up, Wikipedia is not an "actual, reliable source".

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia is not an "actual, reliable source".

Why not? It has been more reliable than most anything else for more than a decade.

What is a reliable online source for you?

[-] yaomtc@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia is not itself a source. It's a way to get a summary of a topic and to get the actual sources

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

True but that is its strength and makes it a defacto source.

The references provided to back the statements in the articles are its real raison d'être.

Combine that with its editing practices, and we have the reason it has maintained its reasonably good quality for so long.

It is not always the answer, but it is the best place to start looking for the answer.

[-] sik0fewl@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It was linked to as an "actual, reliable source" when it is likely a tertiary source at best.

I did skim the references and there was nothing to support any other claim on the etymology. If I missed something, please let me know.

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As I said before, it is not perfect, but it is better than anything else.

[-] LostXOR@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

It's certainly more reliable than "ar.al".

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