#spartanprotocol — Public Fediverse posts

@sarahjamielewis @cupz I think this is the most viable way forward. Favor all those simpler protocol such as #geminiprotocol #gopher #spartanprotocol scorpion and many others. There are tons of independent browsers there, someone could even build their own in a relatively short time. The maintenance burden would never be as insane as those "modern" web browsers.

And in the meantime, as @foolishowl said, push for simpler websites that can work on truly independent browsers such as @dillo and #netsurf. Make sure they work well with #offpunk as well (it also works on gemini and gopher along with the web). And as a bonus, if your website is simple, cross publishing to other simpler protocol becomes trivial.

You need web apps? Go back to native (they usually tend to be faster and less resource intensive than those electron apps anyway). Not only that but there are also great FOSS game engines that can definitely be used to build apps as well such as #raylib #love2d and @godot.

I didn't realize it's gotten that bad that fast with the browser situation... But it was a long time coming with the consolidation of engines within a small number of corporations. I think we slept on it for too long, maybe instead of struggling to hardfork and maintain an insanely complex web browser, we should start actively pushing for a great digital transition by leaving the modern web behind and building a saner and less centralized ecosystem on top of internet. I think that if there is a coordinated effort for this, this is more achievable and will result in a much brighter future for the internet.

@sarahjamielewis @cupz I think this is the most viable way forward. Favor all those simpler protocol such as #geminiprotocol #gopher #spartanprotocol scorpion and many others. There are tons of independent browsers there, someone could even build their own in a relatively short time. The maintenance burden would never be as insane as those "modern" web browsers.

And in the meantime, as @foolishowl said, push for simpler websites that can work on truly independent browsers such as @dillo and #netsurf. Make sure they work well with #offpunk as well (it also works on gemini and gopher along with the web). And as a bonus, if your website is simple, cross publishing to other simpler protocol becomes trivial.

You need web apps? Go back to native (they usually tend to be faster and less resource intensive than those electron apps anyway). Not only that but there are also great FOSS game engines that can definitely be used to build apps as well such as #raylib #love2d and @godot.

I didn't realize it's gotten that bad that fast with the browser situation... But it was a long time coming with the consolidation of engines within a small number of corporations. I think we slept on it for too long, maybe instead of struggling to hardfork and maintain an insanely complex web browser, we should start actively pushing for a great digital transition by leaving the modern web behind and building a saner and less centralized ecosystem on top of internet. I think that if there is a coordinated effort for this, this is more achievable and will result in a much brighter future for the internet.