Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Ok, well our backup is safe yeah ?
So, good, it should burn down to the fucking ground,
Topple DNS tyranny, blow up the CDNs, let datacenters become dilapidated, let the 101 rooms go unstaffed
After the fire maybe something not quite as malevolent will grow in the ashes
artifex@piefed.social 1 month ago
Well at least there’s the fediverse, onion routing, nostr ID management, simplex and others. It’s not quite a Plan B, and definitely takes some effort, but is much much better than nothing.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I tried TOR earlier this year, and the 3 minute pageloads that timeout 3/4 of the time, were very off putting. I hope we can do better
artifex@piefed.social 1 month ago
Sounds like the Internet in the 90s.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Nah, I had a 14400 bauds modem and even then it was never this slow
I went to the dread forum and maybe got 4 page loads in 15 minutes
simply unusable unless you really really need it and already know exactly what you need, where it is, and how to click as few links as possible to get there. And even then, reading single threads is an hours long task.
ChimpChamp22@reddthat.com 1 month ago
It sounds like there was something wrong with your setup. I use Tor almost exclusively for general browsing and while its definitely slower than VPN and unprotected browsing, its never taken more than 10 seconds to load a page, and that’s on the long side. Usually no more than a few seconds longer in any other scenario. Definitely never been 3 minutes.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
TOR is rough, i2p is rough, ipfs is nearly dead
Gemini protocol is lit and fast but dead. it’s like a fancier version of gopher.
If we could all move over to gemini, i’d be stoked, no javascript, limited cgi bin opporunities