The Rewild Philosophy

17 Feb 2025 - Esti

We live in the 21st century under techno-oligarchy.

We benefit from instant communication and connection with any human being alive who has an internet connection. This is a divine power never before experienced by any of our ancestors. It should be appreciated as such! Unfortunately, most of that interaction happens on the handful of platforms owned by the richest men in the world.

Musk owns Twitter.

Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp.

Most internet traffic is routed through Jeff Bezos’ monstrous AWS Cloud.

While AWS (and other cloud services1 like it) have served an integral part in the continued growth of the internet, they are still too technical, expensive, and evil for the average person to use. These multi-billionaire world-eaters are blatant in their desire to implement post-nation-state-neo-techno-feudalism-you-will-own-nothing-and-be-happy ideology.

We must act.

Rewild seeks a democratic internet. An egalitarian internet. An independent internet.

Rewild will allow anyone not only to build their own website, but host it from their own computer! This means you don’t have to pay another provider, be it Amazon, Microsoft, or even one of the smaller players, to host. It also means you are not dependent even on other altruistic people, like the one guy who runs neocities.org. If that site stops being supported, then millions of independent pages are at risk of loss.

We are seeking to make this as easy as possible for the average computer user. This project is still early days, but we already have two sites up!

  1. re-wild.ing
  2. This site, FlintaForum!

Stay tuned, and stay connected.

Find Rewild on Github

  1. “Cloud services” is a pleasant euphemism for the data centers that gobble up valuable resources, and their supporting infrastructure. There is now a lot of capital betting that many expensive new data centers will be built in the coming decade, complete with new or recomissioned nuclear power plants, and probably dirtier energy sources as well, if we’re being real. If they use renewable energy, it’s a bit better, but still the resources that go into the thousands of computers in that center, and the infrastructure to keep it all running with 99.999% uptime, range from the land appropriated to the site, to sites across the globe where exploited people mine the metals found in every single chip and motherboard, meanwhile the environment becomes increasingly polluted and in danger of collapse! ↩