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Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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Yeah well maybe the web shouldn't be a business
god what I wouldnt give to go back to the days of the mid 90s, when the internet was nothing more than a collection of tech weirdos, with websites being nothing more than passion projects with no advertising, no SEO, no search engines, etc etc.
Try a different search engine.
Will give a spin
Tried a few searches. "no results". Oh well
It's a small web search engine so there is not a result for everything (as there was in the early Internet). The 'Explore' feature is probably more entertaining (stumble upon-esque) than using it as an actual search engine.
Kagi isn't bad at not serving up crap, but it requires a subscription eventually.
there was plenty of advertising on america online though almost ever keyword was to a business that was an advertisement.
i do agree that web 1.0 and the 90s internet was superior
~~will give a spin~~ Sorry answered wrong comment. Big finger issue
https://geminiprotocol.net/
Can't we go back? What's stopping you?
the pesky linearity of time as we understand it.
I'm going to risk that going back to personal websites would be a blast. And people would enjoy it.
People on neocities: "what's stopping all of you?"
The small-web exists and thrives in its little bubble of creativity
Neocities? what even is.....
Oh.
Such style. Such creativity. Personality in design! It's like looking back into a lost age from when things were allowed to be fun. None of this 'advertiser safe minimalism'.
This makes my brain do the happy chemicals.
I do have a personal website, but i'm using github to host it. My current works makes heavy use of generative ai, so I haven't shared it around lemmy due to overwhelming negative opinion regarding ai content.
btw, yours is super cool.
edit: the text on the tab is ANIMATED
I hate that this is not used more. This is dope!!
what is that, some successor to geocities? or is the naming convention purely coincidental
Successor by a small community, forget the chain of events but, basically yeah.
Does self hosting, at home, really pays off nowadays, or does hiring server space is a mandatory requirement?
Nothing, really.
We're the only ones stopping ourselves. The 90s and everything that made is 'great' is still here, we just choose not to use it.
America: "No money = no purpose"
the o'l capitalist shalamalama ding-dong...
That’s not gonna happen, and I even disagree with the statement but I can see the merit in it.
That being said the new business model will be the old business model, where everything is paid for. And I do not think that’s so bad, for example I’d pay for a browser if it respects my privacy.
You can't say something like that without bringing forth some arguments...