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Digital Homeownership (blog.muni.town)
submitted 18 hours ago by erlend_sh@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Homeownership on the web is highly analogous to the physical world. Modern homeownership is mostly a story of home-rentership, not real ownership.

Incredibly, this matches the online experience, even though the World Wide Web has an infinite amount of real-estate!

You deserve a home on the web that’s built to keep you safe; a magical place for virtual living that‘s yours for life, existing in a sociable web.

(Now stealth-releasing Weird v0.2 🥷)

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[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I have 30 seconds to figure out what this is. No idea from reading this post. Go to the site, still no idea. Go to its home page.

Networked community gardens in the hinterwebs.

Still no idea. I'm out.

[–] Breadhax0r@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I think it's advertising for a custom domain service kinda like geocities or angelfire used to be. It's also apparently free with the caveat that they will constantly try to upsell you on packages, and it will eventually not be free.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago

And you lose access to "your" site if they go out of business. Sounds a lot like renting, not sure where the "ownership" part comes in.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago

Neocities is already a modern geocities, so there's that

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm working on a protocol for decentralised hosting, ironing out a vulnerability now but it should be up for test in a month or so.

[–] erlend_sh@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Would love to hear about it when it’s out!

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

Thank you!

I'll post about it here when it's fixed.

If you want to check it out in the meantime you can check this out.

Cheers

[–] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

There's also neocities.org which is also free subdomain hosting with added benefit of aggregating and displaying the sites hosted

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

It's sad we've come to this because nobody can afford an actual home.

[–] sk@hub.utsukta.org 4 points 18 hours ago

This was one of my main needs when i started to look for a platform on the fediverse, while wordpress was the closest thing to what i needed it had partial support for federation but thankfully a little known gem called 'hubzilla' turned out to be exactly what i needed to set up my digital home.

[–] card797@champserver.net 3 points 18 hours ago

This is like the matrix.