[Video] The Future and the Hope for Gemini Takeover (Because the Web Increasingly Sucks)
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Evolving as the Web Dries Up
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I HAVE only just mentioned what Keith ("Slated", who helped set up our IRC presence in 2008) wrote last Wednesday. He's shutting down his Web site, which contained the complete antitrust cache of Comes vs Microsoft and on his way out he says: (link here; will be broken soon as site goes offline)
And, again, if I'm going to have to do that anyway, then I may as well take the opportunity to move to something simpler, that doesn't need endless updates, doesn't use MySQL or PHP, and most importantly doesn't take up any of my precious time.So I moved to a new hosting provider, that offers dirt cheap VPS, with a new (and also dirt cheap) domain name, and will be running a Gemini capsule (a "Small Web" alternative to http). This is a protocol that uses simple markdown, and does not use databases or scripting at all, so requires basically zero maintenance. This is what I wish I'd done right from the beginning.
It's with some sadness, but also more than a little irony, that slated.org is being cast into the abyss in the same year that the UK (my home country) seems to have entered into an era of eternal darkness. The summer has gone forever, apparently, in every sense.
To us it'll be sad to lose the slated.org antitrust archives: (going offline breaks many existing links to incriminating Microsoft material)
Those have already been offline for a while, except in cache.
So he'll still be around, but only in Gemini (the domain is registered for another 2 years). One day we might do the same, but at the moment we still receive loads of Web traffic and, having already converted everything to static pages (the wiki, the blog, and more), keeping Web presence does not require much maintenance at all. Uptime has been almost immaculate since the migration (except when routers were put offline for security reasons, namely reboots after patching).
The video above speaks about our future, the focus of Techrights, and how we generally envision the Web's demise (which already started happening years ago; a lot of Web traffic is nowadays just nuisance, such as "AI" bots that increase hosting bills and deliver nothing of value).
Almost everyone with a computer (that's most of the world's people) is also an Internet and Web user. This means that, despite me focusing on a Free software perspective in the video, it can "speak" also to Apple and Microsoft useds. [sic] The Web is, for the most part, platform-agnostic. That does not make it any less proprietary.
Gemini grew a lot this summer. We assume more people find more time (free time, time off work) to investigate and adopt it. █