A term for the part of the internet built in good faith — broader than the IndieWeb, though it contains it.
<mark>The Good Web</mark> is any part of the internet built in good faith, in the specific contractual sense:
The Good Web is not a technology, not a protocol, not even a community — though it contains all of those things. It's a disposition toward the person on the other end of the connection.
The difference between a neighbour who bakes you bread and a supermarket that puts the bread at the back because they know you'll buy chips on the way. Both offer something. Only one gives a shit whether you leave full.
The Good Web is not innocent or pure. Its failure mode is human failure — thoughtlessness, clique formation, accessibility gaps. Not structural failure. Nobody built the Good Web to extract from you.
People know something is wrong. The dissonance is not channelled into finding something better — by design. Learned helplessness. The belief that migration would take too much effort. But these beliefs are manufactured.