Comment on The Web is Going to Die

• docus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Back to dial up internet and BBS

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• gary@piefed.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I see a lot of potential for it to push people back to the small web too. Lots of people becoming interested in personal blogs lately, decentralized social media, the whole indie web movement, etc.

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  • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just started mine! In plain html/txt. Just for fun. Eventually get rss up and running.

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    • gary@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hell yeah! I've been blogging for a couple years but I just use Micro.blog. I'd like to switch to something completely self hosted one of these days though.

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      • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        nice! I took a look at all the options….

        and decided that its all too much. wordpress get hacked daily. writefreely wouldn’t install. And some of the other centralized services kinda suck. So im back to old:
        nginx with a director filled with txt files haha.

        Ill publish as time goes on and by interest. Ill take a look at micro.blog too. But im thinking I might create a neocities at some point just for the fun of it.

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      • TheMadCodger@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I just spun up my own Ghost blog, being self-hosted and interacts with the Fediverse. Plus it’s pretty without me needing to know how.

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    • cubism_pitta@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I got 1gbps internet (symmetrical) and a raspberry pi cluster… running my own Wordpress never made more sense… AND that botch should scale!

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve been seeing a slow but steady movement that direction too

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  • architect@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You got links? Ive been working on something that fits right into this, too. It’s time, y’all.

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• Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Definitely. The conditions that created this version of the web have been gone for some time now. We've gone from connections that were temporarily and required hours to download a few minutes of postage stamp sized video. To always on connections capable of streaming multiple HD streams faster than real time in both directions.

  For my part I'm also looking in to purchasing and trying to set up a small Adhoc mesh Halow network and running a few services on it for myself and any others in the neighborhood that are interested. A small, free (after the hardware) anarchist wireless network. 16mbps can do a lot with simple services, etc.Plus, if a number of people in the area decided to adopt and contribute more nodes to the mesh, you could go faster still.

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That sounds like a fantastic way to go. You might also look at meshtastic.

    It’s a much different use case, being for text messaging and stuff like that only. But, while it may be low bandwidth, it’s still incredibly interesting.

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    • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      https://reticulum.network/ is also pretty good for small info packets. Does a LOT more than meshtastic…but its VERY difficult to set up. Or at least it was for me.

      Its a pipe dream but having small internet without a major ISP would be fantastic. But it will never happen as it is. Friends are thinking of creating a meshnet though just for fun.

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    • TheMadCodger@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I jumped on Meshtastic but found it got too congested with noise in a medium-sized city making it difficult to get much out there. Switched to Meshcore and have had a much better time communicating. Seattle’s full on made it equivalent to SMS, which makes me jealous. But YMMV 🤷🏼‍♂️

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      • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What preset were you using at the time? I know that longfast is not the best preset for larger networks that have a lot of users.

        Personally, open source matters to me much more than the speed or congestion or whatever, which is why I chose meshtastic. Because the mesh core, foam applications are not open source.

        Until there is an open source version, I absolutely refuse to touch it. I know that the underlying software is open source, but without having open source interfaces, I’m still refusing to touch it.

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    • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, the bandwidth would be the damper there. It's great for transmitting just a little bit of data, long distances. But for any sort of bigger data we transmit regularly on phones and desktop. It becomes unfeasible, even low resolution images.It definitely has a range benefit, though that's for sure.I think fellow Missourian Jeff Geerling had a video out a while back where he talked about using it to contact people below his flight on the way to open sauce.

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