Comment by weitendorf

If I had infinite time and energy I would try to reboot an RSS-inspired Internet UX/community. Unfortunately I'm not able to do that yet, but one thing I have just started working on is one-click deployments of configurable static sites with the goal of making them entirely modifiable and self-hostable if desired, but easily used for most non-technical users.

I recently became old enough to be a part of a couple of mailing lists but I just do not find email to be a good medium for articles or discussion.

But it turns out you can buy 1 septillion ipv6 addresses for $500, it's not that hard to register domains and serve static sites for people, and it's not that hard to build a static site generator that packages in standard functionality like RSS and deployments. And AI is generally pretty good at modifying tailwind configs or adding funny UI widgets. So I'm interested in seeing if people might want to participate in a "myspace if it came out in 2025" or "distributed cozyverse", or if regular people would make websites more often if it were truly as easy as clicking a button and paying a few dollars.

There are some really interesting things we can do with social media on the open web with creative application of existing tools. Free idea for the taking: you can use JWT/JWKS and proxy auth providers to implement a "private site" only authorized for access by friends you personally invited.