Some optimism as a counterweight to, well, everything.
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@mttaggart a beautiful sentiment; if I can "yes, and" a bit here: things are not just "not worse" than they used to be if you are a small internet node, there are a lot of things that make the "boring internet" far more accessible than they used to be back in the day. it's not merely protocols. cloud hosting is a commodity supplied by dozens of vendors. I grew up in the days of racking & stacking, scrounging for a free space on a friend's colo box, and it's *so* much easier now.
@mttaggart there are free tiers and super cheap domain registration and just all kinds of stuff all over the place to let you run on an absolute shoestring both financially and operationally. truly there is an underground golden age happening (and fedi is of course part of it)
@glyph Cough cough cough bring back webrings https://ringspace.net
@mttaggart new metaverse concept: bring back VRML, call it "ringworld'
@glyph Completely agreed. While the scalers were scaling, the basics became so much easier and attainable.
And I still love the act of creation that is Making A Website.
