everyone calls it the “small web” or “indie web” or whatever because anarchists are terrible at branding

@Lady Back when the "indie web" branding was starting, "indie" was a popular genre of music too. It feels like it's still *vaguely* popular, but not quite as much, so there's not as much resonance there. Do you have other preferences?

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@aschmitz i have strong feelings about indie haha as someone who comes from the northwest

(and actually i think indie web could have been a great name if the movement itself were better, but i’ve found it to be consistently disappointing personally)

mostly my feeling though is that people have difficulty articulating or capturing the political aspects of what is, in essence, a push back towards the democratization of the internet and a levelling of the field of power

and i think that this difficulty is something that anarchists in general have struggled with across a lot of venues, not limited to just the web

so no, i’m not sure i do have a better label, but that’s kind of what i’m saying

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