We need to start rebuilding our own internet again.
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We need to start rebuilding our own internet again. Long live weird blogs and janky personal sites.
@anon_opin wanna join my webring?
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We need to start rebuilding our own internet again. Long live weird blogs and janky personal sites.
@anon_opin Sorry, but I don’t think this is the solution.
Blogs and personal sites require way too much technical knowledge and time invested to maintain them to be a realistic alternative for most people. Meaning only geeks would do that, and 99% of the population would be excluded in practice.
There is a reason people moved to the proprietary platforms, proprietary social networks, etc.: they were easy to use and reliable. You just needed to subscribe, which takes literally a few minutes, and then you could use them.Meaning that people could spend their time and energy where it mattered to them: writing things, drawing, communicating with others. And not waste hours every week trying to fix technical issues.
We need people to move away from the proprietary platforms, yes. But for that to happen, we need tools that are as easy to use as the proprietary platforms.
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We need to start rebuilding our own internet again. Long live weird blogs and janky personal sites.
@anon_opin yes we do. Have a read (or listen) of this:
We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
NOEMA (www.noemamag.com)
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@anon_opin Sorry, but I don’t think this is the solution.
Blogs and personal sites require way too much technical knowledge and time invested to maintain them to be a realistic alternative for most people. Meaning only geeks would do that, and 99% of the population would be excluded in practice.
There is a reason people moved to the proprietary platforms, proprietary social networks, etc.: they were easy to use and reliable. You just needed to subscribe, which takes literally a few minutes, and then you could use them.Meaning that people could spend their time and energy where it mattered to them: writing things, drawing, communicating with others. And not waste hours every week trying to fix technical issues.
We need people to move away from the proprietary platforms, yes. But for that to happen, we need tools that are as easy to use as the proprietary platforms.
BETTER THINGS AREN'T POSSIBLE!
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@anon_opin Sorry, but I don’t think this is the solution.
Blogs and personal sites require way too much technical knowledge and time invested to maintain them to be a realistic alternative for most people. Meaning only geeks would do that, and 99% of the population would be excluded in practice.
There is a reason people moved to the proprietary platforms, proprietary social networks, etc.: they were easy to use and reliable. You just needed to subscribe, which takes literally a few minutes, and then you could use them.Meaning that people could spend their time and energy where it mattered to them: writing things, drawing, communicating with others. And not waste hours every week trying to fix technical issues.
We need people to move away from the proprietary platforms, yes. But for that to happen, we need tools that are as easy to use as the proprietary platforms.
@jor @anon_opin they don't require a massive amount of knowledge, people used to build and maintain sites easily in the older days on the web.
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BETTER THINGS AREN'T POSSIBLE!
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@jor @anon_opin they don't require a massive amount of knowledge, people used to build and maintain sites easily in the older days on the web.
@laudanum @anon_opin Not "people", no. A small fraction of internet users, the most tech-savy ones, used to build and maintain sites. Then user-friendly social networks allowed (almost) everyone to participate.
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@jor @pikesley @anon_opin This exchange happened sooner than expected. Wish I'd put money on it...
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We need to start rebuilding our own internet again. Long live weird blogs and janky personal sites.
@anon_opin sigh. OP would probably love it here.
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We need to start rebuilding our own internet again. Long live weird blogs and janky personal sites.
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