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The "Cheap" Web (potato.cheap)
submitted 10 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cheap ≠ free Making nice things is difficult and time-consuming.

If we want people to make nice things for us, we have to pay for their rent and grocery bills and raw materials.

If you are spending less than $1 per hour on your entertainment (podcasts, videos, articles, games, books, etc.), consider finding ways to support creators and the infrastructure that supports them.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I want to have empathy for this viewpoint, but dogging on HTML as being a difficult markup language is... comical?

HTML literally continues to be one of the easiest markup languages to learn.

Also, this person has clearly not heard of HTMX.

It's a good ethos, but it really seems like it's asking for the world on a silver platter. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, you know?

I'm also not really sure how or why they connect paying artists fairly with HTML being easier to use? There was a great way to pay artists directly for a long time: Bandcamp. Hardly anyone used it and most chose Spotify instead. That has fuck-all to do with how HTML works?

Finally, if we're talking about the web being accessible, when are we going to start talking about fucking ownership of hardware and connections? Even if we own our own servers, we're still using infrastructure to send data over that is owned by private companies.

How is open software "freeing" us if we're still doing it all on someone else's property?

EDIT: Also, obligatory XKCD on them wanting to build another, new markup language: https://xkcd.com/927/

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol, I love that XKCD. I like using it for all the people clamoring for regulation to make all messengers interoperate.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

regulation is not a new standard, idk what you mean

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I'd be down for a browser that runs htmx directly and no js.