# List of Delightful Manifesto's **URL:** \ **Category:** Delightful commons\ **Tags:** list\ **Created:** [May 11, 2024, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551 "2024-05-11T06:13:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/system/32/929_2.png) [@system](https://discuss.coding.social/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/1 "2024-05-11T06:13:22Z")
There’s many manifesto websites dealing with various aspects of better technology alignment to people and society. This list topic is meant to keep track of them… ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 6:21am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/2 "2024-05-11T06:21:28Z")
## [Humane Web Manifesto](https://humanewebmanifesto.com/) ![OpenGraph image of the website, showing the title and flower graphics around it](https://discuss.coding.social/uploads/default/original/1X/1b14a73e5dfe68eed092e5d51a92311f62172830.png) _Created by [Michelle Barker](https://front-end.social/@michelle/112415487942645730)._ > We need a web **by and for humans**. > > The good news is, rebirth is possible. A humane web can rise from the ashes. Life can flourish in the dirt. By tending our safe havens in our own corners of the web, and by sharing with our friends and neighbours, away from the gaze of monolithic corporations, a new web can thrive. We can rewild the internet[4](https://humanewebmanifesto.com/#ref_4). > > If what we **don’t** want from the web is increasingly clear, perhaps it’s time to identify what kind of web we **do** want. How do we define a humane web? > > This manifesto is intended as a personal response to the current state of the web. It is a statement of intent and a call to arms, inviting you, the reader, to go forth and build humane websites, and to resist the erosion of the web we know and love. It reflects my thoughts and feelings at the time of writing, but it is not “complete”. The definition of a humane web should grow and evolve over time. ---
**Author:** ![Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/ryuno-ki/32/44_2.png) [@Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/u/Ryuno-Ki)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/3 "2025-05-02T16:20:38Z")
[Sustainable Web Manifesto](https://www.sustainablewebmanifesto.com/) Created by [Wholegrain Digital](https://www.wholegraindigital.com/). > **We need a sustainable internet** > > We all share and use the web, just as we all share and live on this planet. This manifesto is a public declaration of a shared commitment to create a sustainable internet. > > The planet is experiencing unprecedented climate change and the Internet is both part of the problem and the solution. From websites to cryptocurrencies, the Internet consumes large amounts of electricity in data centres, telecoms networks, and end user devices. If the Internet was a country, it would be the 4th largest polluter in the world and is expected to grow considerably by 2030. > > If we embrace sustainability in our work, we can create a web that is good for people and planet. By signing this manifesto you declare your commitment to create a greener web. ---
**Author:** ![Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/ryuno-ki/32/44_2.png) [@Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/u/Ryuno-Ki)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/4 "2025-05-02T16:25:39Z")
[Death to Bullshit](https://deathtobullshit.com/) Created by [Brad Frost](https://bradfrost.com/). > It’s quite simple really: > > - Respect people and their time. > - Respect your craft. > - Be sincere. > - Create genuinely useful things. ---
**Author:** ![Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/ryuno-ki/32/44_2.png) [@Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/u/Ryuno-Ki)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/5 "2025-05-02T16:28:11Z")
[manifestos [MelonLand Wiki]](https://wiki.melonland.net/manifestos) lists many more (most of them I have never heard of before). ---
**Author:** ![Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/ryuno-ki/32/44_2.png) [@Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/u/Ryuno-Ki)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/6 "2025-05-03T12:00:49Z")
Somethign I struggled to remember yesterday: > **[Frugal computing: developer perspective • Wim Vanderbauwhede](https://limited.systems/articles/frugal-computing-developer/)** > > On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and what developers can do about it. Created by [Wim Vanderbauwhede](https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/) ([published on Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/wimvanderbauwhede/pages/src/branch/main/articles/frugal-computing-developer/index.html)). > **The problem** : > > The current emissions from computing are about 2% of the world total but are projected to rise steeply over the next two decades. By 2040 emissions from computing alone will be more than half the emissions level acceptable to keep global warming below 1.5°C. This growth in computing emissions is unsustainable: it would make it virtually impossible to meet the emissions warming limit. > The emissions from production of computing devices far exceed the emissions from their electricity usage, so even if devices are more energy efficient producing more of them will make the emissions problem worse. > The CO₂ emissions from the internet infrastructure resulting from individual internet usage are also very large and growing steeply because of the increased use of higher-resolution video and VR/AR. > > **The solution** : > > As a society we need to start treating computational resources as finite and precious, to be utilised only when necessary, and as effectively as possible. We need frugal computing: achieving the same results for less energy. > > **Developer actions** : > > - Make software that works on older devices, the older the better. > - Make software that will keep on working for a very long time. > - Make software that uses the least amount of total energy to achieve its results. > - Make software that also uses the least amount of network data transfer, memory and storage. > - Make software that encourages the user to use it in a frugal way. Thanks, @onepict, for bringing this to my attention. ---
**Author:** ![Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/ryuno-ki/32/44_2.png) [@Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/u/Ryuno-Ki)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/7 "2025-05-26T16:28:46Z")
Keith Kurson added a note on [keith is a web developer](https://keith.is/link/the-internet-used-to-be-fun/) linking to [The internet used to be\* fun • Kwon.nyc](https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/) by Rachel J. Kwon with the comment: > Excerpt: > > > Personal website manifestos > > This is an example list of links to personal websites making the case that the internet used to be more fun, and that it can be again. How to build, how to enjoy, and how to internet in general. ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/8 "2025-05-31T11:02:34Z")
## [Data-centric Manifesto](https://datacentricmanifesto.org/) _“We have uncovered a root cause of the messy state of Information Architecture in large institutions and on the web today. It is the prevailing application-centric mindset that gives applications priority over data. The remedy is to flip this on its head. **Data is the center of the universe; applications are ephemeral**.”_ ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/9 "2025-10-03T15:03:31Z")
## [HTML First](https://html-first.com/) _HTML First is a style of writing web software that favours using the native capabilities and languages of the browser and reducing layers of abstraction (languages and toolchains) on top of them._ #### HTML First Best Practices These Practices are not Dictatorially Prescriptive. You don’t have to strictly follow them all in order to be “Doing HTML First Right”. - [Apply The Principle of Least Power](https://html-first.com/guidelines#rule-of-least-power) - [Prefer Vanilla approaches](https://html-first.com/guidelines#vanilla-approaches) - [Disfavor Build Steps](https://html-first.com/guidelines#build-steps) - [Minimize Client Side State (Use the server)](https://html-first.com/guidelines#server-for-state) - [Be View-Source Friendly](https://html-first.com/guidelines#view-source) > If there’s one thing I’d like you to take away from this site, it’s that **it is possible, practical, and perfectly reasonable, to build beautiful, fast, easy-to-use, accessible web software using primarily the native languages and capabilities of the web.** ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/10 "2025-10-04T18:08:54Z")
## [Save Social](https://savesocial.eu/en/) _Saving social media as a democratic force. [..] Our society needs other platforms for social networking, exchange and debate than those provided by Chinese and US monopolistic corporations. Over the past 15 years, such alternative networks and services have emerged (for example Mastodon or Friendica in Fediverse[4](https://savesocial.eu/en/#af876574-ab31-421e-b987-f994092ba12a)). They can strengthen our democracy because they promote social exchange and debate on the basis of **open and recognised standards** [5](https://savesocial.eu/en/#8cfe4749-47eb-4a0a-b437-58b4ff6a83dd) in **decentralised structures**. Politics and society must strengthen and expand these services._ > **[Save Social 🇬🇧](https://savesocial.eu/en/)** > > Saving social mediaas a democratic force Nina George, Schriftstellerin, Ehrenpräsidentin European Writers’ Council (EWC) Foto: Heike Blenck Rocko Schamoni, Schriftsteller, Regisseur, Musiker, Künstler Foto: Kerstin Behrendt Prof. Dr. Herta... ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/11 "2025-10-07T20:43:27Z")
> **[The Three-Legged Stool: A Manifesto for a Smaller, Denser Internet -...](https://publicinfrastructure.org/2023/03/29/the-three-legged-stool/)** > > “The Three-Legged Stool” is the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure’s banner white paper: the culmination of our work here at the lab so far and our roadmap for our efforts in the coming years. It was written primarily by Chand... See also: [Manifesto for a Smaller, Denser Internet: The Three-legged Stool](https://discuss.coding.social/t/manifesto-for-a-smaller-denser-internet-the-three-legged-stool/298) ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/12 "2025-10-15T19:04:25Z")
## [Small tech](https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology) / [Small web](https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/) / [Web0](https://web.archive.org/web/20250507171621/https://web0.small-web.org//) Small technology and the Small web and previously Web0 (now archived) for the decentralized web, are delightful manifesto’s and valuable ideas for paradigm shifts that are passionately advocated by Aral Balkan and Laura Kalbag for years now. And they are putting them in practice, creating exemplaric software to clearly demonstrate the merits of the approach. [![Snapshot taken from the small-tech.org website that shows the principles of Small technologies in one overview of labeled cards.](https://discuss.coding.social/uploads/default/original/2X/3/39071c7862338c7052323e3760a140f23fec2fe9.png)](https://small-tech.org) ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/13 "2025-10-24T06:06:23Z")
## [Perma Web](https://perma-web.mro.name/en/pledge/) The Perma Web is a manifesto by @mro the developer of [Seppo](https://seppo.mro.name/). > By using the “Perma Web” banderole, a website commits itself to both > > - preservation of the biosphere (e.g. low [energy consumption](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/can-the-internet-run-on-renewable-energy.html)), > - respecting its visitors (including compliance with the [GDPR](https://dejure.org/gesetze/DSGVO)), > - longevity ([Cool URIs don’t change](https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI)), as well as > - craft tradition (compliance with appropriate [web standards](https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/)) and > - respecting the [Permacomputing Principles](https://permacomputing.net/Principles/). The page refers to a number of other websites to test the ‘compliance’ to these principles. Very nice. ## [Permacomputing principles](https://permacomputing.net/principles/) > Contemporary permaculture is founded on three core ethics: Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share. These ethics serve as a guiding compass for its design principles, co-creating a holistic framework for regenerative living. Similarly, permacomputing is built upon 10 principles that encourage and raise awareness about more sustainable digital practices. The 10 principles listed are.. 1. Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst 2. Care for All Hardware — Especially the Chips 3. Observe First 4. Not Doing 5. Expose The Seams 6. Consider Carefully The Interaction Between Simplicity, Complexity and Scale 7. Keep It Flexible 8. Build On Solid Ground (😃) 9. (Almost) Everything has a place 10. Integrate Biological And Renewable Resources ---
**Author:** ![Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/ryuno-ki/32/44_2.png) [@Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/u/Ryuno-Ki)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/14 "2025-12-03T13:40:56Z")
## [SOFA](https://tilde.town/~dozens/sofa/) I recently overheard a [conversation where this was shared](https://todon.eu/@steeph/115638354117402886). > **S** tart **O** ften **F** inish r **A** rely > > **S** tart **O** ften **F** uck **A** chievements > > SOFA is the name of a hacker/art collective, and also the name of the principle upon which the club was founded. > > The point of SOFA club is to start as many things ~~as possible~~ as you have the ability, interest, and capacity to, with no regard or goal whatsoever for finishing those projects. > > The goal is acquiring many experiences. The side effects include entertainment and increased skill. > > Here are some ways to get starting with SOFA: > > - Start reading lots of books. If you don’t like a book you’re reading, stop reading it and put it down. Maybe give it away. > - Start a new code or art project. Get at least as far as writing a detailed [README](https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html). Maybe you complete the project, or maybe you never get further than that. It’s fine. > - Start learning a new language. Spoken or computer. Just start, you don’t have to commit to mastering it. Open up duolingo[2] or exercism[3] and just do a few practice exercises. Secret sauce, rationale and tips shared on the page as well. ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/15 "2026-07-04T15:33:16Z")
## [Techno Anarchist Manifesto](https://www.thefulcrum.dev/techno-anarchist-manifesto/) _This practical and profanity-laced manifesto provides the loose philosophy, strategies, battleplans, tactics, and weapons to destroy Techno Feudalism via the practice of Techno Anarchism. It explains the war we are in, the Techno battle’s place in it, and what Techno Feudalism and Techno Anarchism are._ ---
**Author:** ![Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/ryuno-ki/32/44_2.png) [@Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/u/Ryuno-Ki)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2026, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/16 "2026-07-08T11:56:15Z")
## [The Builder’s Creed](https://seths.blog/2026/07/the-builders-creed/) > Each of these ideas argues that the future is not something that happens to us. It’s something we make, together, on purpose, or not at all. A potential promise, or a series of promises, that enable a better future. > ### Promise Yourself > > **1.** To see optimism not as a prediction but as a choice. Pessimists are sometimes right, but they rarely build anything. > > **2.** To remember that the future is not a place we’re going. It’s a thing we’re making. Every day, with every choice, whether we admit it or not. > > **3.** To be so busy making things better that you have no time to explain why things can’t improve. > > **4.** To understand that “it might not work” is not a reason to stop. Plan for the downside and commit to the contribution. > > **5.** To trade the comfort of certainty for the possibility of contribution. Certainty is for spectators. > > **6.** To be too generous for hoarding, too curious for cynicism, too committed for despair, and too busy shipping to permit the presence of Resistance. > > **7.** To stop waiting to be picked. The world doesn’t care about your credentials. It only cares about what you create. > > **8.** To begin. Before you’re ready. Because you will never be ready. > > ### Promise the Work > > **9.** To ship. Not because shipping is easy, but because unshipped work helps no one. > > **10.** To make the tool serve the human, and not the other way around. > > **11.** To remember that every tool is a teacher. The hand shaped the stone and the stone shaped the hand. > > **12.** To fight and refuse “at scale” as an excuse for “without care.” Scale is a multiplier. It multiplies harm as it multiplies good. > > **13.** To sign your work. Not to take credit but to earn trust. > > **14.** To fix the thing, not the blame. > > **15.** To honor the boring parts. Infrastructure is effort made invisible. > > **16.** To know the difference between building something people need and needing people to want what you built. > > ### Promise Each Other > > **17.** To ask, every time, _possible for whom?_ A lever that lifts only the people holding it is not a lever. > > **18.** To be just as enthusiastic about the success of other builders as you are about your own. Scarcity is a story; possibility compounds. > > **19.** To remember that four billion people got the phone before they got the library or the bank. The phone became both. > > **20.** To teach what you know. Generosity is the only moat that makes the world bigger. > > **21.** To take responsibility for the means as well as the ends. > > **22.** To welcome the skeptic without becoming one. > > **23.** To argue about the _how_ without abandoning the _whether._ We can make things better. Let’s argue about how. > > **24.** To measure what matters. It doesn’t matter how much money you raise, what sort of buzz you were able to generate, or which bridges you trolled under. What matters is the benefit created. Not engagement, but enrollment. > > _We are not users, we are people_. > > ### Promise the Future > > **25.** To embrace the real choice between the possible and the likely. When your work has impact, playing the lottery is not a moral option. The downside may belong to other people. > > **26.** To take the long view on the purpose and the short view on the action. Plant trees. Ship today. > > **27.** To remember Socrates was right that writing would change memory. He was wrong when he insisted it would diminish us. > > **28.** To notice that every era has its printing press, and every era has people who burn the books. > > **29.** To hold the lever of possibility and technology with both hands. One hand for ambition, one for responsibility. > > **30.** To remember the mistakes of the past, learn from them, and press on. Guilt is not a strategy. But experience, repair, and commitment are. > > **31.** To realize that the whole world will never be on your side, and yet we must commit to building for the whole world. > > **32.** To understand that this creed is not about technology. Technology is just the newest name for the oldest promise: that tomorrow can be better than today, and that it’s ours to make. ---
**Author:** ![Mbd06b](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/mbd06b/32/1430_2.png) [@Mbd06b](https://discuss.coding.social/u/Mbd06b)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/17 "2026-07-18T13:29:49Z")
_ **The Elohim Protocol** — Digital Infrastructure for Human Flourishing: A Manifesto for Love-Centered Technology_ ![image](https://discuss.coding.social/uploads/default/original/2X/7/71603dd4e34975a86382c458f5964d18e9e66602.jpeg) **The Elohim Protocol** manifesto argues that our crisis isn’t bad intentions but bad architecture — economic, political, and digital — and proposes infrastructure organized around love as an operating principle: peer-to-peer, owned by no one, where AI participates but is held by the architecture to serve communities rather than manage them from above. > “We’ve accepted money as if it were a law of nature rather than a technology we invented and can reimagine. Modern computation could enable currencies that decay, that carry values, that reward pro-social behavior, that encode our commitments to future generations.” 📜 Manifesto: [Lamad — Learning Platform](https://elohim.host/lamad/path/elohim-protocol) A difference I’d gently claim from many entries on this list: this one isn’t only a manifesto. For the last year or so I’ve been building the thing it describes with Claude Code — by night, around a dying software developer day job, on a homelab — Holochain DHT, REA/ValueFlows economics, distributed learning paths. The manifesto is literally served by, and becoming built-by the p2p system it proposes, as a learning path you walk through. What I’d love from this community is the thing manifestos rarely get: adversarial feedback. Challenge the thesis. Tell me where the architecture doesn’t live up to the words, or where the words overreach the architecture. An issue on the repo, a critique in this thread, or a pointer to peers doing it better would each mean a great deal. 🔧 The repo: [GitHub - ethosengine/elohim: A vision for a distributed digital infrastructure of compassion, the technological incarnation of care itself. Learn more at https://elohim.host · GitHub](https://github.com/ethosengine/elohim) ---
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/aschrijver/32/3_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://discuss.coding.social/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/list-of-delightful-manifestos/551/18 "2026-07-18T17:02:52Z")
Thanks for posting @Mbd06b! Indeed, this is a #list topic, but [SX channel](https://matrix.to/#/#socialcoding-foundations:matrix.org) on Matrix is a good place to start discussion. The people from Valueflows are also in the chatroom.