I was talking to a friend who was thinking about the internet we want to have, decentralized, less silos, a bit like the nineties where it was possible to have static pages, host email, write your own CGI scripts, and it was all step by step easy and possible if that was what you wanted. And we got talking about the kind of things we need to today to get this back. Do you have reading suggestions? Blogs to read? Projects? People to follow?

@kensanata I think about this a lot.

Neocities has free static hosting, and serves pages over IPFS, which is neat.

I run a gopher server on a VPS, along with a really basic tilde.town style service.

Once we've got home internet again, I'll probably start self hosting at least some stuff.

There's a pretty strong #indieweb community, but so much of it is focused on #seriousDevelopers, and thats... not what the independent web should be about.

@ajroach42 I think targeting the in-serious developer is key. Kids and adults that want to tinker must see small achievable steps forward. A bit like Emacs, Smalltalk, or fiddling with autoexec.bat or whatever we did as kids.

@kensanata This is basically all @freakazoid and I talk about.

@ajroach42 @freakazoid I follow both of you so unless you have backchannels, I’ll be there! 😀

@kensanata @ajroach42 Our backchannel is our work Slack, but we end up chatting on here even about work stuff and pretty much never on work Slack about non-work stuff.