The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?
The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?
In the early days the internet was a free, egalitarian space for anyone to surf. Now, commercial interests rule – but users do still have some control.
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can we go back
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Yes, selfhost most essential services like mail, messengers, web search, piped frontend, vpn, and other things like gitea/forgejo and jellyfin, web 3.0 will be federated network
Isn't web 3.0 the whole crypto ntf bullshit. Maybe we skip that one and go straight to 4.0
I think in general it's supposed to be about decentralisation, but god knows scammers will hop straight onto anything with "point-oh" in the name
Exactly. Blockchain is decentralized, so a lot of people have jumped to that, but it really doesn't have to be. I'm interested in distributed projects, which goes a step further than federation, and I think that is the gold standard for an open internet.
Web 4.0: I can actually safely tip every dude who made a useful video/website 0.01 cents and neither side will have to pay any extra fees so it is actually worth to tip, it will just be p2p money using the processing power of the sender and the receiver without buttcoin vultures trying to fuck with it. That was what web 3.0 was supposed to have been 13 years ago, but between the technical limitations and those web3 shitasses' greed, we're left almost where we started...
We're nowhere closer to frictionless, costless money transfer than we were 13 years ago, are we?
Back to 1.0, Javascript is pollution
Gaben is that you? Where half-life 3?
Shhh! You'll scare him off!
Web 2.0 Episode 2.
Some websites dont allow selfhosted mails, they want one of the big names.
You can get pretty far with setting up DNS entries properly. I just moved most of my accounts to my custom domain (hosting is at Tuta), and I haven't had any issues yet. I find value in paying for hosting, but I think I could self-host if I needed to.