Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory?
Orioniae@piefed.social 1 month agoMy theory (very bad) is that the fediverse is the prelude of an internet so decentralized it will stop being useful to corporations.
The “upper web” will be corporate, ads, marketing and paid services. The “lower web” will be a series of semi connected networks that will loosely operate as a whole.
Maybe in 10~20 years, a physical new internet will be born, completely independent from the current one and untouched by companies.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A new internet isn’t even needed, just a new protocol.
Corpos aren’t on Gopher or Gemini, for instance.
forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 month ago
We don’t even need a new protocol. HTTP/1.1 is perfectly fine! I wish people would stop trying to throw it out.
– Frost
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Beyond the technical aspect, I don’t see how this is feasible. There are few sites out there supporting just 1.1, and the population using HTTP won’t likely create more. While those using alternatives continue to.
forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 month ago
Eh? Doesn’t pretty much everything support HTTP 1.1 still? It’s not like it’s dead.
And growing a community of HTTP 1.1 website people certainly isn’t any harder than growing a community of alt-protocol website people. Even if it were an alt-protocol nothing normal supports anymore (which it isn’t, thankfully).