Most people aren't willing to pay extra money or do extra work for something they themselves don't need or use. Unless there's a massive marketing campaign behind it, or the law requires it. This has been the case throughout history, pretty much.
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Sadly there's no money or hype in developing broken pages, as cool and fun as it sounds. Especially with the high speed connection people have these days.
I guess the concept of webpages as documents had fallen out of favor especially that dynamic contents became more prevalent. This is even true for Lemmy.
Lemmy could be a Gemini service. Geminispace has such a social network. I wonder if one could make a Lemmy frontend for Gemini, working similarly.
Purely webpages as documents that would be, a curious Jedi find out may.
It's fallen out of favor simultaneously with reduced competitiveness, I think these are connected. That's why there's no money in making normal websites. The potentially competitive by usability niche is taken by platforms.
Graceful degredation is a choice, made in the negative by survivors of the dot-com bubbles that fiercely want to extract a level of customer loyalty that mere "actual companies" could never dream of.