Publishing On the Web
There's a lot of chitter-chatter about the Indy web, and How to Make the Web Great Again, and how it needs to be simpler and why doesn't something exist that allows one an easy on ramp?
Here's the deal--the net isn't really made for easy publishing or even all that good for it. The easy on ramp is paper and pencil since the barrier to entry for those items is low. Nobody can really stop you if you get those two things, which are obtainable at any economic strata.
The web reminds me a little of a middle class gated suburban neighborhood. These are the people that are still working class, but better off than others in part because of their work ethic and willingness to work to try to move up. Really, these people are "owned" by many fancier people who don't really want to work at all, but need other people to work for them. These people control the jobs, and who is in them.
Same basic thing applies to the net. Yeah, there is Wordpress and a bunch of other shit you need in addition to a paper and pencil. Lacking any one of those things and probably the money to make sure you 'control them' means you are shut down--you can't come to the playground and you aren't invited because you are too poor to buy anything other than 'LA Gear' and idealistic--or what-have-you. Most of this is due to data formats and proprietary gobblety-gook.
You can't have nice things when basic liberties are being tweaked in ways they shouldn't be and of course income distribution is one of those things. Freedom of Speech has been under serious strain since the whole "social media isn't really a publishing platform that has to guard free speech" has been a thing. You can't really engineer a fix to that, as freakin' better people than you have tried that such as a guy by the name of Tom Jefferson. Even if you have the clams and know enough techno wizardry, if you run afoul of the latest Silicon Valley Luciferic agenda, you might just get canned anyway because "We don't much like the cut of your jib there, sailor!" Back in 2020, it was "We don't like the fact you won't put this substance in your body, Sailor." Later on, of course, "Oops it probably was a lab leak, and oops, yeah, we totally were bought out for an agenda and a lot of people died, tee hee. Sorry about your account tho."
These are not engineering problems. They are homicidal maniacs with too much power and money problems.