I agree with everything here. The internet wasn’t always a constant amusement park.
I’m rather proud of my own static site
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If you don’t mind me asking, how do you host your site?
I host it via docker+nginx on my own hardware.
I’m in the same boat (sorta)!
Follow up question, did you have trouble exposing port :80 & :443 to the internet? Also are you also using Swarm or Kubernetes?
I have the docker engine setup on a machine along side Traefik (have tried Nginx in the past) primarily using Docker Compose and it works beautifully on LAN however I can’t seem to figure out why I can’t connect over the internet, I’m forced to WireGuard/VPN into my home network to access my site.
No need to provide troubleshooting advice, just curious on your experience.
I keep everything as flat as possible. Just the regular docker (+compose) package running on vanilla Debian. On the networking side, I’m lucky in that I have a government-run fiber provider that doesn’t care that much what I host, so it’s just using the normal ports.
I did previously use C*mcast, and I remember there was an extra step I had to do to get it to redirect port 80 over 443, but I couldn’t tell you what that step was anymore.
I like your pictures!
Thank you!
With respect to the presentation of your site, I like it! It's quite stylish and displays well on my phone.
If you don’t mind me asking, how are you hosting your site?
Beautiful, I bookmarked it.
Thank you for sharing.
Well...
Maybe that’s a dark mode thing? I know Dark Reader breaks almost anything with an already dark theme.
Lol, no. I made a usercss for this (currently not released) but explicitly disabled it here. But that one uses a base style that switches via @prefers light/dark:
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
:root {
--text-color: #DBD9D9;
--text-highlight: #232323;
--bg-color: #1f1f1f;
…
}
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
:root {
…
}
Guess your site uses one of them too.
I admit I used Publii for my builder. I can’t program CSS for crap. I’m far more geared towards backend dev.
Good luck get advertiser support for your "slow web". Oh, wait...
I would question the assumption that advertisers on the internet is a good thing.
I think I wrote this. This is my philosophy for how the web should be. Social media shouldn’t be the main Highway of the web. And the internet should be more of a place to visit, not an always there presence.
Interesting read. It captures a lot of how I feel and what I miss about the "old internet."
I think this is the first time I found a reasonable take on "how to fix the internet". You can't fix the corpo web. Most people just want constant updates and they don't care about ads, bots and AI slop. You can't change their minds.
Saying "fuck it, I will just build my own thing and I don't care if anyone will see it" is the right approach. Couple of times I was thinking about creating some guides (like guide to public EV chargers in Spain) and I just gave up because I realized I'm not going to win the SEO war and no one is going to view it. Why write guides if they are not helping anyone? I'm still not sure if it makes sense to create guides but it may be a good idea to create a simple site, post some photos, share a story. I will probably do it.
One of the things I miss about web rings and recommended links is it's people who are passionate about a thing saying here are other folks worth reading about this. Google is a piss poor substitute for the recommendations of people you like to read.
Only problem with slow web is people write what they are working on, they aren't trying to exhaustively create "content". By which I mean, they aren't going to have every answer to every question. You read what's there, you don't go searching for what you want to read.
Something that I have enjoyed recently are blogs by academics, which often have a list of other blogs that they follow. Additionally, in their individual posts, there is often a sense of them being a part of a wider conversation, due to linking to other blogs that have recently discussed an idea.
I agree that the small/slow web stuff is more useful for serendipitous discovery rather than searching for answers for particular queries (though I don't consider that a problem with the small/slow web per se, rather with the poor ability to search for non-slop content on the modern web)
I don't know abou that. I don't want to manage visiting dozens of websites.
Technically it is also possible to make interactionless feeds with no live and share bottons
How's visiting dozens of pages different from visiting dozens of websites?
And BTW, on sites where feeds are in fashion, maybe some kind of Usenet upgraded for HTML and Markdown and post\author hyperlinks would be more in place.
Visiting feeds is like using tools from one organized toolbox. Visiting many websites is like jumping between many separate toolboxes
No. You have a toolbox, it's called a web browser. To unite the particular websites you have a web ring, or your own bookmarks. There were also web catalogues.
Bookmark at not intuitive enough to me and RSS feeds are still feeds that have no interaction features like the writer of this article like.
I am always for giving the most power to users. I like compromises like user settings so people who want a feed with interactions can and who doesn't can disable it
But why do we need interactive crap for everything. Comments and etc for articles are the worst. Not everybody needs to hear you, sometimes you’ve just gotta take in information and process it.
Like I literally Maintain my own fleet of apps that give me just the article body images, in a sorted feed. No ads. No links. Nothing. Even the links to other articles, etc in the middle of an article is too much. I hate that shit. Modern web page design is garbage and unreadable.
I don’t need to know stacy from North Dakota’s thoughts on an article because 99% of the time it’s toxic anyways. Or misinformed.
Interactiviry seems to be a good thing. What brings you to participate here on Lemmy?
Reading content. I'm more of a lurker compared to most users.
Modern web page design is garbage and unreadable.
Because it's a "newspaper meets slot machine" design. Kills two birds with one stone, hijacking media (censorship is invisible) and making money (invisible too).
I don’t need to know stacy from North Dakota’s thoughts on an article because 99% of the time it’s toxic anyways. Or misinformed.
And also because not every place is supposed to be crawling with people.
the internet peaked in 2000
Adding my voice to the chorus of "this is how I feel" because, well, it encapsulates exactly how I feel. Author's personnal website is now in my RSS reader under a new category: Slow Web.
If anyone has suggestions for more website to add to that category they're more than welcomed.