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Let's make the web personal again

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Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Is this something to do with Brian Lovin? I see the design of his personal site is a heavy influence, but didn't know it was open sourced? https://brianlovin.com/writing

The source code is really similar

Not seeing Brian Lovin’s name in the LICENSE file in Nym either...

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good comment. And the old web is still there but for almost 30 years it’s not been where the growth is. 99% of people don’t want computers, they want computers to do the work of life for them so they can get on with what really interest them.

thanks! agreed. browsers can still talk HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 (though they largely don't want to, for good reasons) and HTML still works! i loved (LOVED) the old Internet, but time has moved on. that said, Hugo is amazing and I absolutely love it! sidebar now that I'm on this soapbox. i think this is 100% the reason why iOS and macOS will never converge. The desktop OS is a dying product. If everyone could do their w…

Agreed. Was quite surprised when my daughter was doing grade 8 math homework on her phone. Would never have occurred to me to try, let alone want to!

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Anyone know how a way to run a personal site for around $50 USD or under a year that can be pointed to a custom domain? My wife does some rug making and wants a portfolio available to show off her art, but we would prefer not to pay $10-20/month for such a site.

Review hosting providers on the folloiwing site: https://www.lowcostwebhostings.com/

I use digital ocean, but their cost actualy rose a tad bit over the last year, and i have heard that hetzner has better pricing, though i have not yet used them. Again, just take a look at the above site, and can search for a low cost hosting provider. Others leverage github pages, etc...for free, but that seems antithetical to this greater topic of self-host your own. Good luck!

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Anyone know how a way to run a personal site for around $50 USD or under a year that can be pointed to a custom domain? My wife does some rug making and wants a portfolio available to show off her art, but we would prefer not to pay $10-20/month for such a site.

Neocities ($5/mo), https://neocities.org/supporter

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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post #9

Is this something to do with Brian Lovin? I see the design of his personal site is a heavy influence, but didn't know it was open sourced? https://brianlovin.com/writing

The source code is really similar Not seeing Brian Lovin’s name in the LICENSE file in Nym either...

Looks like they've claimed Brian Lovin's work as their own, judging by this commit:

https://github.com/Nym-HQ/nym/commit/3dda085064e745bd43f8b05...

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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> Small b blogging is learning to write and think with the network. Small b blogging is writing content designed for small deliberate audiences and showing it to them.

Are there plans for ActivityPub integration?

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Anyone know how a way to run a personal site for around $50 USD or under a year that can be pointed to a custom domain? My wife does some rug making and wants a portfolio available to show off her art, but we would prefer not to pay $10-20/month for such a site.

I run my mom’s portfolio site through porkbun.com. $10/yr domain + $3/mo hosting = $46.

I used to use nearlyfreespeech.net for my own site and it was even cheaper, but a little more complicated to get up and running.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Anyone know how a way to run a personal site for around $50 USD or under a year that can be pointed to a custom domain? My wife does some rug making and wants a portfolio available to show off her art, but we would prefer not to pay $10-20/month for such a site.

Buying an old refubished computer and running whatever web server on a small & efficient linux distro is not really cheap in the beginning (since you've got to spend a few $ to buy the computer that will be a small home server), but in the long term it's really cheap (I spent 50€ in 2017 for an old dell optiplex fx160 on ebay, and it's still running my websites today).

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Great idea! But the problem, now, is on the client side. Readers need RSS. This lets authors publish at their own pace (which we can assume is relatively slowly) and doesn't burden the user with checking for new content manually. Of course, Twitter is a de facto RSS feed for some, and several other services (HN included) serve that role to some extent. But for the personal web, for those readers (and writers) of the…

One of two things will happen. Either someone will build a huge business on top of a really great RSS reader, gradually adding features to feeds that customise to compete with substack / twitter etc; until the point where regular old feeds don't work as well, or at all in free readers. This is the IRC to Slack pipeline.

Or, RSS will continue as an important technology, but one that's sidestepped in favour of social networks.

I miss the old web, blogging, deep knowledge and intellectually diverse voices spread and hosted widely. But it stands in contrast to the centralising, oligopolistic tendencies of capitalism, and arguably high technology itself.

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