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20 votes
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Coming of age at the dawn of the social internet (LiveJournal, AIM, and other pre-Facebook internet things)
42 votes -
Interview with Lanny Smoot
6 votes -
The internet is being ruined by bloated junk
43 votes -
The hidden world of undersea cables
15 votes -
Why is AI pornifying Asian women?
30 votes -
In most of the Western world teletext has disappeared, but in Sweden it's going strong and will soon celebrate its 45th anniversary
30 votes -
The young moderators sifting through the internet’s worst horrors
22 votes -
Reducing the friction of publishing online?
I'm looking for ways to make it easier to publish on my personal blog. I've had WordPress blogs in the past, and I find that they set up a constant grind of upgrading — upgrading core, upgrading...
I'm looking for ways to make it easier to publish on my personal blog. I've had WordPress blogs in the past, and I find that they set up a constant grind of upgrading — upgrading core, upgrading plugins, reconfiguring the upgraded components, fixing the things the upgrades break...
It was stealing too much of the little time I have to devote to my blog. So, when I built my current blog, I built in on a static site generator (11ty). It took longer to set up than just writing HTML and CSS, but it does make it a bit quicker to get something up since it will build pages from markdown, and it doesn't require a ton of upgrading every time I want to sit down and write something. Sure, I could upgrade a library or two each time I sit down with it, but it's just spitting out HTML so I don't really need to.
That said, it's still more friction than I want. I'm currently obsessed with mmm.page. I love the playful UI. I love the design language it encourages. I love how it makes the tech get out of the way and puts you closer to getting your content out. That said, there are several things I don't love:
- It's not accessible. I can't pick which elements to use. I can't write alt text for images.
- It's not open source. This means a lot of things. It means when the developer loses interest, it will die. It means we can't evaluate it. It means we can't self-host it. Speaking of these...
- Development seems to be slow. There's one item on the roadmap. It was suggested in April. I have a feeling it's not making the money the developer had hoped and they've lost enthusiasm for it.
- We can't self-host it. Now, this means I'm stuck paying $10 a month. Tomorrow, that could go up to $20, and there's nothing I can do about it.
- There's no easily apparent escape hatch. I guess I could just download the pages it wrote and host them elsewhere, but that's probably not ideal. If the developer does decide to close up shop or double the price, I want an easy way to take my site and go somewhere else.
- As far as I can tell, it doesn't support RSS. I am a staunch believer in RSS, and I believe the web sucks without it. I won't want to run a site that doesn't offer it.
All these problems leave me with a web site that provides too much friction and a solution to that problem that leaves many others in its wake. Does anyone know of an alternative that's similar that could address some or most of these issues? I'm a developer and I still would like to be able to publish online without doing developer-y stuff, so it's easy to see how social media has been able to bottle up so much content on the web. I'd love to think there's something that could bring us out of this dystopia... or at least make it easier for me to share a list of the games I've been playing recently. 😅
26 votes -
The perfect webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms
15 votes -
Age verification is incompatible with the internet
50 votes -
Core Internet – what sites and services should we permanently preserve?
Looking ahead, the commodification and degradation of the Internet is continuing to take away digital resources that we have come to depend upon over the last 20 years. Whether it’s email or...
Looking ahead, the commodification and degradation of the Internet is continuing to take away digital resources that we have come to depend upon over the last 20 years. Whether it’s email or Amazon or YouTube, the decline of all our favorites has been well documented.
But we don’t want to live without these sites and services. Tildes itself is an attempt to preserve one such resource but in a better and more stable way. What other parts of the Internet deserve similar treatment?
Whether it’s open source eBay or community banking or nonprofit versions of Facebook… what would you choose and how would you go about preserving its character and making it workable in the long-term?
36 votes -
"Birds Aren't Real" leader TED talk about his movement | Peter McIndoe
29 votes -
You've just been fucked by psyops; the death of the internet
20 votes -
Welcome to the ad-free internet
37 votes -
The most dangerous Canadian internet bill you’ve never heard of is a step closer to becoming law
34 votes -
A new internet standard called L4S could significantly lower the amount of time we spend waiting for things to load
37 votes -
History of country code top-level domains, with a map of the most popular ones in use | Map Men
14 votes -
The internet is worse than ever – now what?
28 votes -
The history of emoticons
3 votes -
US cable lobby and Ted Cruz are disappointed as FCC bans digital discrimination
43 votes -
The people who ruined the internet
73 votes -
Google decides to pull up the ladder on the open internet, pushes for unconstitutional regulatory proposals
66 votes -
Trial testimony - Google considered and rejected creating a form of search that doesn't track users history from website to website
14 votes -
Internet Artifacts
61 votes -
The poster’s guide to the internet of the future
22 votes -
Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him.
84 votes -
"Saints, Knaves, and Moralists of Internet Communities" by Ian Vanagas, based on the writings of Peter Turchin
12 votes -
The unreasonable effectiveness of plain text
21 votes -
Have I been [domain] squatted?
16 votes -
Have I Been Pwned?
38 votes -
An audacious plan to halt the Internet's enshittification - Cory Doctorow
53 votes -
New Zealand Matrix fan film becomes oldest active torrent in the world
47 votes -
The Brazillian who nutted in his Dreamcast: Leonam's journey
7 votes -
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do
73 votes -
US FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai: banning fast lanes and ISP restrictions on legal content
50 votes -
The movement for affordable, community-led broadband: Grassroots organizations like NYC Mesh want to close the digital divide, one rooftop at a time
20 votes -
Why scalpers can get Olivia Rodrigo tickets and you can't
12 votes -
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
96 votes -
Tim Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes (2009)
27 votes -
Timeline of the history of the web
4 votes -
And then Elon Musk said there’ll be no more war – not via his satellite. Aren’t we lucky to have the world in his hands?
69 votes -
How Barstool built an empire by swiping sports highlights and music clips online
14 votes -
How telling people to die became normal - merciless trolling is a fact of online life that may never go away
37 votes -
Blockchains are entering their “broadband era”
7 votes -
Make the Wayback Machine the real internet
46 votes -
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, kiwifarms, death, harassment: a critique
58 votes -
Senator admits "Kids Online Safety Act" will target trans content online
28 votes -
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet
49 votes -
Bringing back the minimal web
112 votes