Comment on A Web Revival: the Internet didn't die, you're just not on it

Widdershins@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s a website tool hosted on neocities that’s attempting to become a geocities revival.

  The video is functionally an ad for the community and the associated Web building tools.

  Another walled garden, right in line with Web 2.0, but with a 90s pastiche done up in HTML5. Reminds me a bit of the Vaporwave style that flared up in the mid-10s.

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Another walled garden

    Not sure if you meant it this way, but Walled garden usually means ‘Closed Platform’, like a way to trap users. But the video is encouraging the construction of websites that can easily be self-hosted, which is the opposite of a walled garden.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But the video is encouraging the construction of websites that can easily be self-hosted

      It’s claiming they can be self-hosted, certainly. But they’re also claiming this is some kind of “Web Revival”. Do you know anyone who is building neocities sites and self-hosting them, much less getting any meaningful amount of traffic on their self-hosted websites?

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      • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I did til0 I bought my own domain

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      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Do you know anyone who is building neocities sites and self-hosting them

        My friends aren’t the type to build websites at all, but there’s plenty of self hosted simple web 2.0 sites that get decent traffic, such as Low Tech Magazine (mentioned in the video).

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is the videos community. Are you lost?

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  • Widdershins@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Great discussion

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah as much as I prefer reading about things like this it is a bit silly to complain about it when it’s literally posted in a video-oriented community.

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• ParkedInReverse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Have a read

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Theres a number of websites that he goes through. Its going to be hard to describe.

  Lots of neocities but not all of the links are.

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• brem@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Digg does that…

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