====== Solarpunk and the Small Web ======

===== What Is Solarpunk? =====

A speculative fiction genre and real-world political/aesthetic movement. Where cyberpunk imagines corporate dystopia and steampunk romanticizes industrialism, solarpunk imagines forward: decentralized communities, renewable energy, mutual aid, technology that serves life rather than exploiting it.

Symbol: a half-gear (technology compatible with nature) and a sun (infinite open potential).

The movement began in sci-fi and migrated into architecture, gardening, political organizing, and Internet culture.

===== Solarpunk Asks =====

  * Who benefits from this technology?
  * At what expense?
  * Does it serve communities or extract from them?
  * Does it distrust monocultures and scale for scale's sake?

These are the same questions the small web asks.

===== The Connections =====

  * **Solderpunk** — creator of [[protocols:gemini:start|Gemini]] — named themselves after the act of soldering: connection with heat and metal
  * **Bombadillo** — developed by ''sloum'' on tildegit, a fellow tildeverse resident
  * **The tildeverse** — shared Unix servers as a commons; home on the Internet without surrendering data or being the product
  * **[[tilde:tools|Botany]]** — a terminal plant-growing game on tilde.town; a small shared ASCII garden
  * These protocols have no pipeline for data harvesting or intrusive advertising. They are structurally incapable of it.

===== The Math of the Small Web =====

Smol Pub charges $5 for a lifetime license. The attention economy's math is engagement, time-on-site, data extraction. The small web's math is different.

===== See Also =====

  * [[protocols:start|Protocols]]
  * [[protocols:smallweb:old_hardware|Low Hardware Requirements of the Small Web]]
  * [[folkzone:permacomputing|Permacomputing]]
  * [[protocols:smallweb:browser_monoculture|Browser Monoculture]]
  * [[tilde:start|tilde.town]]