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"The Internet" is full of junk because nobody wants to pay for content, so it is paid for by the advertisers who then want their junk fed to the content consumers. Want cleaner Internet? Pay content creators. Problem solved.
"The Internet" is full of junk because nobody wants to pay for content, so it is paid for by the advertisers who then want their junk fed to the content consumers. Want cleaner Internet? Pay content creators. Problem solved.
The internet i see and use is effin' great, and free for myself. Apart from my isp, tax and any required hardware, I pay for nothing, and thanks to various blockers i see no ads. Perhaps you may be looking in the wrong places, or have set yoir sights too high?
In an effort to make this a sustainable, I charge a $9.99 subscription per year (2.7 cents per day) for premium features to pay the hosting bills. I don’t expect to make a fortune from it, but I am hoping to bring in enough revenue to take this idea further and scale it up to more content.
I think more things like the Gemini Protocol will continue to be popular. An internet that is deliberately severely bandwidth limited could make navigating between sites much faster. For example, a limit of 100K or even 1K per page for content, or something similar for web assembly applications/modules. Possibly combine that with entirely ditching JavaScript for web assembly and entirely separating applications from…
> I think more things like the Gemini Protocol will continue to be popular. Saying "continue" would mean that it is popular now, outside of a very small handful of niche sites I'd say gemini is not popular. I follow this space a bit and I basically only know of https://drewdevault.com/ that actually use it.
"The Internet" is full of junk because nobody wants to pay for content, so it is paid for by the advertisers who then want their junk fed to the content consumers. Want cleaner Internet? Pay content creators. Problem solved.
I signed up for a popular online magazine just this week and even when I'm logged in, I see ads begging me to subscribe.
Finally, of course, most of the popular services (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google) don't even offer an ability to pay instead of viewing ads, so consumers can't meaningfully express this preference.
> He said that because the site is so simple and low-bandwidth, his Amazon CDN bill is only about $50 a month, and it’s mostly a fun side project anyway. Its success may change that, though: After recently hitting the front page of Hacker News and being featured on Daring Fireball, he said the site’s traffic went up 100x overnight, to about 100,000 homepage loads a day. (Those are all the analytics he has, because, a…
> He said that because the site is so simple and low-bandwidth, his Amazon CDN bill is only about $50 a month, and it’s mostly a fun side project anyway. Its success may change that, though: After recently hitting the front page of Hacker News and being featured on Daring Fireball, he said the site’s traffic went up 100x overnight, to about 100,000 homepage loads a day. (Those are all the analytics he has, because, a…
The round trip time between distant users to your VPS would be quite large though.
> He said that because the site is so simple and low-bandwidth, his Amazon CDN bill is only about $50 a month, and it’s mostly a fun side project anyway. Its success may change that, though: After recently hitting the front page of Hacker News and being featured on Daring Fireball, he said the site’s traffic went up 100x overnight, to about 100,000 homepage loads a day. (Those are all the analytics he has, because, a…
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Gemini sets a good example, but what I’m specifically advocating for is an incremental improvement to how we use the existing web. Fixing e.g. [1] (falling back to plaintext) should be trivial, and with that obstacle removed there would be nothing stopping early adopters from publishing in markdown today. [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1319262
Perhaps advertise to the browser per se as plaintext, then have an extension look for a magic number or readable flag to indicate specific-markup-type, and translate from there more opportunistically. Plaintext infrastructure; readable markup; optional (semi-automated?) styling from there. (Perhaps your higher-up comment already suggests as much.)
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The extra $595 a year is paying someone else to run the infrastructure and security updates.
When I pay Hetzner for an instance, what security infrastructure updates am I missing that is worth $595 a year? When I update the Linux OS and download the security patches, what am I missing compared to the AWS AMI of that very same Linux OS applying the same security patches? If I run a Debian AMI, is there a special supersekrit actually-secure Debian OS that Amazon gets but I don't?
I’ve seen someone miss a Wordpress vuln on a Friday and was hacked by Saturday. Not saying all hosting companies react quickly but they at least have teams of people watching stuff. Peace of mind is a valuable thing if you have other areas to focus on like school or work and family.