mainstreet &mdash; Micro Matt https://micro.baer.works/tag:mainstreet Micro thoughts and mini posts. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:41:26 +0000 https://i.snap.as/4R3vdrBj.png mainstreet &mdash; Micro Matt https://micro.baer.works/tag:mainstreet My thinking lately has started drifting to businesses outside of my own. https://micro.baer.works/my-thinking-lately-has-started-drifting-to-businesses-outside-of-my-own?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[My thinking lately has started drifting to businesses outside of my own. https://twitter.com/ilikebeans/status/1426201706036187141 This “main street” idea is particularly interesting to me, because I think it’s the start of a path that can actually lead to meaningful resistance against the tech-giant-dominated web we live on. I still dream of the early web days, with less rampant commercialism and more free-flowing humanity and knowledge. That side of the web is still alive and well, and will always be around. But it feels pushed to the fringes, and left out of all the mainstream conversations on today’s privacy violations, “misinformation,” and social ailments caused by the “big web.” I think it’s all pretty ironic when this old, human web holds solutions to all these problems. The answer is right in front of our faces, yet we blindly look past it. I’m not sure what this all looks like in practice. Somewhere in it, maybe, there are organizations providing funding for small businesses that need it. Perhaps there’s a curated, social marketplace only for small businesses, where everyone in it can get to know each other. Or a federated network of these independent bazaars, naturally powered by communal, open source software. Just thoughts for now. #web #business #mainStreet Thoughts? a href="https://remark.as/p/micro.baer.works/my-thinking-lately-has-started-drifting-to-businesses-outside-of-my-own"Discuss.../a]]> My thinking lately has started drifting to businesses outside of my own.

This “main street” idea is particularly interesting to me, because I think it’s the start of a path that can actually lead to meaningful resistance against the tech-giant-dominated web we live on.

I still dream of the early web days, with less rampant commercialism and more free-flowing humanity and knowledge. That side of the web is still alive and well, and will always be around. But it feels pushed to the fringes, and left out of all the mainstream conversations on today’s privacy violations, “misinformation,” and social ailments caused by the “big web.” I think it’s all pretty ironic when this old, human web holds solutions to all these problems. The answer is right in front of our faces, yet we blindly look past it.

I’m not sure what this all looks like in practice. Somewhere in it, maybe, there are organizations providing funding for small businesses that need it. Perhaps there’s a curated, social marketplace only for small businesses, where everyone in it can get to know each other. Or a federated network of these independent bazaars, naturally powered by communal, open source software. Just thoughts for now.

#web #business #mainStreet

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