What if the “internet” became the platform it truly is and was originally envisioned to be? What if there were a “federated” network of local, regional mesh networks each with their own management, hosting activitypub instances and other open source decentralized protocols for such communities to use like the original concept of a town square and “local businesses”, without the abtract notion of far away datacenters removing people psychologically from the real-world impact that grassroots SaaS organizations serving their communities along with open forums can have? What if instead of ads within this intranet being promoted and tracked by large corporations in Delaware, silicon valley and elsewhere, they were limited to the businesses in that area? And were used to fund the network’s infrastructure and make it free for everyone? And this wouldn’t be a replacement for the internet as it exists, just an augmentation running on top of it, like a parallel structure.
Who would pay for stuff? Ads are not inherently bad, it’s misuse is. I wouldn’t mind a website with one or two ads per page. I hate these sites with an ad after each paragraph. I use Firefox with Ublock origin, Privacy badger and use Next DNS in my router because of Ad excesses. Ultimately the greed of website publishers is their own demise.
What if the “internet” became the platform it truly is and was originally envisioned to be? What if there were a “federated” network of local, regional mesh networks each with their own management, hosting activitypub instances and other open source decentralized protocols for such communities to use like the original concept of a town square and “local businesses”, without the abtract notion of far away datacenters removing people psychologically from the real-world impact that grassroots SaaS organizations serving their communities along with open forums can have? What if instead of ads within this intranet being promoted and tracked by large corporations in Delaware, silicon valley and elsewhere, they were limited to the businesses in that area? And were used to fund the network’s infrastructure and make it free for everyone? And this wouldn’t be a replacement for the internet as it exists, just an augmentation running on top of it, like a parallel structure.
What if we didn’t even have ads on the internet?
Who would pay for stuff? Ads are not inherently bad, it’s misuse is. I wouldn’t mind a website with one or two ads per page. I hate these sites with an ad after each paragraph. I use Firefox with Ublock origin, Privacy badger and use Next DNS in my router because of Ad excesses. Ultimately the greed of website publishers is their own demise.