...the kind of web they define themselves against; that kind of bloated, corporate, algorithm-ruled and ad-ridden mess that constitutes the majority of highly-trafficked websites these day.

...for me, the term “Small Web” refers to a couple of main things: independence from tech giants, and websites that are lightweight and high-performance.

Related concepts:

• A late 90s-style, hand-crafted web
• Alternative protocols, like Gemini
• An independent web