current status of the web

i think the article does a wonderful job at illustrating the point without even uttering a single word

how-i-experience-web-today.com/detail

Interestingly, there is a “small web” or “frugal” tech alternative which goes back to the basics:

geminiprotocol.net

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini

With a client/browser like Amfora or Rosy Crow, this “small web” is very pleasant to read! (And easy to set up an own server on a Raspberry Pi).

(Note: It’s not related in any manner to the Google AI stuff.)

yeah i’ve heard about gemini but i don’t like that they don’t just work over HTTP (which would be entirely doable, btw). so i need to download a custom client or a browser plug-in, and i don’t like it. i shouldn’t have to install another 3rd-party software on my device just to interact with online content which the browser can already do perfectly fine.

so i need to download a custom client or a browser plug-in, and i don’t like it.

The slight technical ceremony is, a bit tongue-in-cheek, needed to keep the umwashed masses away.

And the technical and media limitations are - and here I am totally serious - needed to keep boundless greedy corporarions away which sooner or later destroy every living or creative thing they touch.

needed to keep the umwashed masses away.

and it also keeps me away. i don’t like non-standard software for use-cases where existing software can already do the job well. that’s just artificially fucked-up architecture. artificial scarcity