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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
America: "No money = no purpose"
the o'l capitalist shalamalama ding-dong...
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.
Tried a few searches. "no results". Oh well
Kagi isn't bad at not serving up crap, but it requires a subscription eventually.
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.
Will give a spin
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.
This one is mine: https://h0p3.neocities.org/. Lemme know if you make one. I'll read.
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!!
Does self hosting, at home, really pays off nowadays, or does hiring server space is a mandatory requirement?
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.
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.
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...