Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims...
by simpaticoder on Sunday October 15, 2023 @05:24AM
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Yeah but we need a name and a recognizable advocacy position. The open web, the indie web, minimalists, even luddites are related terms, but nothing really fits. Then there is the community, the scene - like a webring, but better. Dignified, driven by a simple, solid technical aesthetic, capable, self-sufficient, independent, rational, (classic) liberal, etc. Those are some adjectives I associate with these ideas. I don't know the answer, I'm thinking out loud. (I was excited by the indieweb label but it sounds good but its off-putting with levels of compliance and weird microformat stuff. It's not focused on the important universal qualities and distracted by details of technical implementation.).
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Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims...
by CuriousSkeptic on Sunday October 15, 2023 @05:32AM
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How about “sustainable web”?
It could surf a bit on already established efforts in other domains and the narrative seem to fit with those ideas I think.
Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims...
by stavros on Sunday October 15, 2023 @05:32AM
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The small web?
Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims...
by jack_riminton on Sunday October 15, 2023 @07:34AM
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The basic web? hear me out... why has hacker news remained steadfastly under the radar? in part because it looks like an academic message board of the 90's
If intelligently produced text content is what is needed then perhaps we need to design a format that excludes, if not automatically diminishes, images and videos
Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims...
by jack_riminton on Sunday October 15, 2023 @07:31AM
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How about non-ad web? imo all of the ills come from misaligned incentives to extract ad/marketing money
Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims...
by flenserboy on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:08AM
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The Useful Web.
Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims...
by lowtech8 on Sunday October 15, 2023 @10:15AM
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How about Real Intelligence web (RW) or Human Web (HW)?
Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims...
by simpaticoder on Sunday October 15, 2023 @11:07AM
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Slept on it. How about "No Web". It's a pun in english (no and know) and also an oblique reference to Herbert's Dune universe "No Ships", who's interiors are invisible to prescience. A fleet of no ships on an internet with ~6 kwizatz haderachs captures a resistance element. The name is a bit strange, too, attracting the intellectually curious.
Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims...
by ftigis on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:25PM
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web0?
Edit: I have not heard of it before this suggestion, but it turns out that this is something that already exists.
Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims...
by simpaticoder on Sunday October 15, 2023 @10:12PM
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That term leads me to a handful of related sites put together by a 2-person web agency in Ireland. It's the right direction!