Comment by cadamsdotcom
1 month ago
Love the idea but it still isn’t easy enough for normies to host a blog or a website.
I think there’s a way though.
Modern self-hosted open source is easy to run for semi-experts, so what if communities banded together to host stuff at the local library?
A bunch of enthusiastic teens could form a volunteer core that runs a bunch of services for their community and teaches anyone interested, giving kids a chance to learn how to host stuff online. There’d be high trust if it’s all locals providing services to locals. Host it on a cheap VPS so the library doesn’t even need infra; just a very small budget for the initiative.
It’d be super decentralized. And the teams running these services would provide high quality feedback to the developers on features & operating of their services.
Seems win-win.
> Love the idea but it still isn’t easy enough for normies to host a blog or a website.
I have a hunch that normies are increasingly unaware of what a website is. Newer generations are growing up with apps, on their phone/tablet, some being basically "illiterate" when it comes to using a laptop/desktop beyond the top 10 webites corresponding to the apps on their phone.