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Kitten is a new devkit to create self-hosted, peer-to-peer web applications, using HTML/CSS and Javascript. I can't attest how well it works but it's a step in that "small web" direction.
Because, like, Gemini is cool. But sometimes you want something more than just a capsule.
It's both, in a vicious cycle. At the same time that big tech herds passive people into walled gardens, it also passivises the people inside them even further. And those walls are not just between different feuds - they're also between customers and developers, making sure that each knows their place as serfs and vassals of big tech respectively.
The main problem with the current internet is that it has no mechanism against a commercial/hostile/corporate takeover, like the one that we saw. As you said it was made to connect people and computers; it is not like this any more.
(Sorry for not deepening the subject further. I'd need to get into political matters to do so, and doing it in this comm leaves me a sour taste in my mouth - as if distorting an environment supposed to be refreshing into the same stuff we see in 90% of Lemmy. )