• Mubelotix
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    1094 days ago

    Yeah well maybe the web shouldn’t be a business

    • @[email protected]
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      504 days ago

      god what I wouldnt give to go back to the days of the mid 90s, when the internet was nothing more than a collection of tech weirdos, with websites being nothing more than passion projects with no advertising, no SEO, no search engines, etc etc.

          • @[email protected]
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            33 days ago

            It’s a small web search engine so there is not a result for everything (as there was in the early Internet). The ‘Explore’ feature is probably more entertaining (stumble upon-esque) than using it as an actual search engine.

      • katy ✨
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        124 days ago

        there was plenty of advertising on america online though almost ever keyword was to a business that was an advertisement.

        i do agree that web 1.0 and the 90s internet was superior

      • qyron
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        14 days ago

        Can’t we go back? What’s stopping you?

          • qyron
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            43 days ago

            I’m going to risk that going back to personal websites would be a blast. And people would enjoy it.

            • @[email protected]
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              People on neocities: “what’s stopping all of you?”

              The small-web exists and thrives in its little bubble of creativity

              • @[email protected]
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                83 days ago

                Neocities? what even is…

                Oh.

                Such style. Such creativity. Personality in design! It’s like looking back into a lost age from when things were allowed to be fun. None of this ‘advertiser safe minimalism’.

                This makes my brain do the happy chemicals.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    I do have a personal website, but i’m using github to host it. My current works makes heavy use of generative ai, so I haven’t shared it around lemmy due to overwhelming negative opinion regarding ai content.

                    btw, yours is super cool.

                    edit: the text on the tab is ANIMATED

              • qyron
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                13 days ago

                Does self hosting, at home, really pays off nowadays, or does hiring server space is a mandatory requirement?

              • @[email protected]
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                13 days ago

                what is that, some successor to geocities? or is the naming convention purely coincidental

        • @[email protected]
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          13 days ago

          Nothing, really.

          We’re the only ones stopping ourselves. The 90s and everything that made is ‘great’ is still here, we just choose not to use it.

    • @[email protected]
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      44 days ago

      That’s not gonna happen, and I even disagree with the statement but I can see the merit in it.

      That being said the new business model will be the old business model, where everything is paid for. And I do not think that’s so bad, for example I’d pay for a browser if it respects my privacy.