What Is the Small Web?

• FreeTube

  497 11,709 9.9 JavaScript

  An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

  

On Mastodon you can choose among dozens of servers, you can decide to change server and still be able to use Mastodon. Now compare that with Youtube or Twitter. You can fix some aspects using browser extensions[1] or clients[2] but by and large, if you don't like something about the platform, the only available choice is leaving.

[1] e.g. https://www.undistracted.app/

[2] e.g. https://freetubeapp.io/

• Sandstorm

  51 6,634 5.4 JavaScript

  Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.

  

Interesting to see no one mentioned https://sandstorm.io/ yet, to really get to the small web, we would not only need each user to "serve their own site" but also buy in to self hosting other services, google docs, trello etc

Getting this right at scale is super difficult for many reasons, but the biggest one I can think of is "ease of use" for the general user, and not building things only developers or "tech savvy" users can use.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

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