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Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by rchaud »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #11
nunez wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> The desktop OS is a dying product. If everyone could do their work on their phones and tablets, they would. Count me out of this brave new world of tiny screens and crappy UI/UX.

I got a Galaxy Fold and it's remarkable how much more 'active' work I'm doing on my phone now that I can switch to iPad Mini-sized dimensions and it still fits in the palm of my hand. The narrow screens that 99% of phone users have seem to adversely incentivize shallow, consumption-oriented usage in my case.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by superultra »

I think the flaw in this logic is that somehow it's technically hard to start a personal blog, so they invent a technical solution (a better platform). But there are plenty of great platforms that are easy to use, Wix, Squarespace, and Wordpress.com, etc.

The problem isn't technical though, in my opinion, it's social. My working theory is that there are probably the same amount of people or more who were or would be vested in a so-called "personal web" as there were 10 or 20 years ago. But I think that we've all allowed ourselves to be trained that the levels of engagement and web visitors that we would have been happy with 10-20 years ago just doesn't match up to what social platforms can provide, so most people that would have a personal blog just aren't.

I know my personal blog from 20 years ago, which I posted to daily, feels very small and quaint. I also know that I would be disappointed with "engagement."

A more personal web doesn't really need better platforms or tech, it needs a mindset reset.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by Eupraxias »

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #88
Eupraxias wrote: post #65

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Why is this getting downvoted? Can someone who is downvoting, or anyone, provide a reason? Is the comment patently incorrect?

Is a proof-less conspiracy statement supposed to be enjoyed and loved? It's more conspiratorial emotion than fact. These "I miss the old internet" posts come up every week or so on HN and are largely all the same conspiracies with slightly different wording and no more proof than before.

Fair enough - I hadn't considered that the implication was it would take a conspiracy to do it.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by ramses0 »

lazyfanatic wrote: post #10

Anyone remember webrings? Technology is so circular, old becomes new, over and over again. "Join our network!" at the end reminded me of them.

Aside: it would be nice to have geographically local "web-rings". There was a sewing consortium place nearby that I randomly drove by, and also a local quilting specialty shop that I saw, why aren't they all connected to each other in a "makerspace" webring, or "craft" or "art" ring with like waypost signs: "next cool art store 3.5mi thattaway =>"

Same with craft brewing, or scratch bakeries, etc.

Technically it might be "advertising your competition", but in a different light, it's trying to expand the amount of time and $$$ that the target customer group is spending in _any_ of the specialty / niche areas.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by nickstinemates »

superultra wrote: post #93

I think the flaw in this logic is that somehow it's technically hard to start a personal blog, so they invent a technical solution (a better platform). But there are plenty of great platforms that are easy to use, Wix, Squarespace, and Wordpress.com, etc. The problem isn't technical though, in my opinion, it's social. My working theory is that there are probably the same amount of people or more who were or would be…

To add to this, centralization has been such a big part of the past 20 years with Social Media that it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle. It has and continues to be an "and" proposition -> social media presence + "personal"/brand/corporate/? website must go hand in hand.

The people who get the flywheel right get an outsized piece of typical mind share and opportunity.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by rzzzt »

philipwhiuk wrote: post #55
thisisnotanexit wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is open sourced here: https://github.com/brianlovin/briOS

As MIT, not as "tell people it's yours": https://github.com/Nym-HQ/nym/commit/3dda085064e745bd43f8b05...

And the condition under which one is allowed to do the things the MIT license allows one to do:

    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
No more steps!

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Post by asdff »

superultra wrote: post #93

I think the flaw in this logic is that somehow it's technically hard to start a personal blog, so they invent a technical solution (a better platform). But there are plenty of great platforms that are easy to use, Wix, Squarespace, and Wordpress.com, etc. The problem isn't technical though, in my opinion, it's social. My working theory is that there are probably the same amount of people or more who were or would be…

I think what makes it difficult is that there's a sense that self hosting (or coding in general) is not going to click with you if you aren't already a techie. People just shut down, but its not their fault, that's just what marketing has told them for 25 years. Marketing comes in lying, saying its hard to do these things, that you need to pay someone to hold your hand and keep you safe, and doing otherwise means you are a fool, since they can point to their massive populations of sheep that already believed their lie as some sort of justification for why they are right. In reality, its easy to code. Its easy to set up self hosting. Its easy to write your own html. It probably takes as long for you to get up to speed with the basics of these things as it does for you to learn some gui tool that you have to pay for somehow to do a very limited set of these things.

I think of all my accountant friends, absolute wizards in excel which is no easy feat, who would be able to make money hand over fist if they just took even less time to learn the basics of programming and data science than it did to get so proficient at excel. Unfortunately the big lie of technology has hit them too, and they have convinced themselves that they are somehow mentally unable to understand this stuff, or that they should have gone to school for it and now have no hope of ever learning it, even though their expertise in excel proves they are perfectly capable of learning this sort of stuff if they gave it a chance. It's not harder, its actually easy, 7 year olds can wrap their head around computer code, so that means you can too with just a little bit of patience. Unfortunately patience is also in short supply these days thanks to marketing setting expectations that all good things should be instant gratification or they aren't good at all.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

#100

Post by ako »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #11
nunez wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> The desktop OS is a dying product. If everyone could do their work on their phones and tablets, they would. Count me out of this brave new world of tiny screens and crappy UI/UX.

With iPadOS 16.2 you’ll be able to connect your M1/M2 iPad to a big monitor via usb-c, use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and it’ll be just like using a laptop.
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