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  • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    Not going to happen. The majority of users are tech illiterate. They have no idea to set this up nor any desire to pay domain name fees and web hosting fees…

    Only a few techies like us might do it but nothing more than that.

    Plus it doesn’t work the way they think. I already have a blog and occasionally post there and share it to social media. All the interaction, if there is any, happens on social, not on my blog.

    Blogs are simply a place to post long form content but not designed for massive amount of replies and social interaction.

  • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    I understand and obviously agree or else I wouldn’t be vaguely gestures to everyone around him

    But let’s not live in fantasy land. Capitalism rules the internet and like it’s old predecessor Feudalism there’s one rule. Bigger Army (bank account) diplomacy. None of the other rules matter if you’re big enough to write them. Nobody will willingly give up their level of control of the internet and everyone who takes it will do so with the objective of replacing them not dethroning

    • thirteene@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Open source will eventually create viable platforms, I’m not giving up until platforms successfully campaign to kill free alternatives

      • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Yeah. We’ve already seen this effect with WordPress and Android and Apache/Nginx. There was a day when I was weird for betting against MS IIS for web hosting, and people were sure the commercial Internet would remain proprietary forever.

        (The most generous current estimate of IIS market share for Internet hosting is 3%, and that’s probably being extremely generous. A more likely number is under .5%.)

        We saw companies try and fail to privatize HTML many times: (ActiveX, Flash, SilverLight, various versions of IE).

        Open specifications always win.

      • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        they successfully killed xmpp, google seems hellbent on hijacking the internet with their drm thing, meta wants to federate like they did when they killed xmpp…

        i dunno if you are right but they will definetly put up a fight.

    • herrcaptain@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      For real, with the shitty state of modern search engines I’d love to see the return of webrings.

      • neutron@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Some sort of reputation system with incentives to avoid low effort posts or spam perhaps?