Good luck get advertiser support for your “slow web”. Oh, wait…
Building a slow web
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/building-a-slow-web/
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
dmajorduckie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I would question the assumption that advertisers on the internet is a good thing.
shiroininja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think I wrote this. This is my philosophy for how the web should be. Social media shouldn’t be the main Highway of the web. And the internet should be more of a place to visit, not an always there presence.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
I think this is the first time I found a reasonable take on “how to fix the internet”. You can’t fix the corpo web. Most people just want constant updates and they don’t care about ads, bots and AI slop. You can’t change their minds.
Saying “fuck it, I will just build my own thing and I don’t care if anyone will see it” is the right approach. Couple of times I was thinking about creating some guides (like guide to public EV chargers in Spain) and I just gave up because I realized I’m not going to win the SEO war and no one is going to view it. Why write guides if they are not helping anyone? I’m still not sure if it makes sense to create guides but it may be a good idea to create a simple site, post some photos, share a story. I will probably do it.
crank0271@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Interesting read. It captures a lot of how I feel and what I miss about the “old internet.”
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
One of the things I miss about web rings and recommended links is it’s people who are passionate about a thing saying here are other folks worth reading about this. Google is a piss poor substitute for the recommendations of people you like to read.
Only problem with slow web is people write what they are working on, they aren’t trying to exhaustively create “content”. By which I mean, they aren’t going to have every answer to every question. You read what’s there, you don’t go searching for what you want to read.
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Something that I have enjoyed recently are blogs by academics, which often have a list of other blogs that they follow. Additionally, in their individual posts, there is often a sense of them being a part of a wider conversation, due to linking to other blogs that have recently discussed an idea.
I agree that the small/slow web stuff is more useful for serendipitous discovery rather than searching for answers for particular queries (though I don’t consider that a problem with the small/slow web per se, rather with the poor ability to search for non-slop content on the modern web)
rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t know abou that. I don’t want to manage visiting dozens of websites.
Technically it is also possible to make interactionless feeds with no live and share bottons
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How’s visiting dozens of pages different from visiting dozens of websites?
And BTW, on sites where feeds are in fashion, maybe some kind of Usenet upgraded for HTML and Markdown and post\author hyperlinks would be more in place.
rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Visiting feeds is like using tools from one organized toolbox. Visiting many websites is like jumping between many separate toolboxes
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
the internet peaked in 2000
Carotte@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Adding my voice to the chorus of “this is how I feel” because, well, it encapsulates exactly how I feel. Author’s personnal website is now in my RSS reader under a new category: Slow Web.
If anyone has suggestions for more website to add to that category they’re more than welcomed.
otacon239@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I agree with everything here. The internet wasn’t always a constant amusement park.
I’m rather proud of my own static site
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If you don’t mind me asking, how do you host your site?
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Buy the cheapest laptop you can find, with a broken screen it’s fine. Install debian 12 on it give it a memorable name, like “server” go to a DNS registrar of your choice, maybe “porkbun” and buy your internet DNS name for example “MyInternetWebsite.tv”, this will cost you 20$/30$ for the rest of your life, or until we finally abolish the DNS system to something less extortionnate Install webmin and then apache on it go to your router, give the laptop a static address in the DNS section Some router do no have the ability to apply a static dhcp lease to computers on your network, in that case it will be more complicated or you will have to buy a new one, one that preferably supports openwrt. then go to port forwarding and forward the ports 80 and 443 to the address of the static dhcp lease now use puttygen to create a private key, copy that public key to your linux laptop’s file called /root/.ssh/authorized_keys go to the webmin interface, which can be accessed with server.lan:10000 from any computer on your PC and setup dynamic dns, this will make the DNS record for MyInternetWebsite.tv change when the IP of your internet connection changes, which can happen at any time, but usually rarely does. But you have to, or else when it changes again, your website and email will stop working. Now go to your desktop computer, and download winsshfs, put in your private key and mount the folder /var/www/html/ to a drive letter like “T:” Now, whatever you put in T: , will be the content of your very own internet web server enjoy
otacon239@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I host it via docker+nginx on my own hardware.
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
With respect to the presentation of your site, I like it! It’s quite stylish and displays well on my phone.
PushButton@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Beautiful, I bookmarked it.
Thank you for sharing.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well…
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otacon239@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe that’s a dark mode thing? I know Dark Reader breaks almost anything with an already dark theme.