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The title made me hope for a quite literal way to run your website: using some kind of energy harvesting (bicycle?) used to power a small computer with a web se

The title made me hope for a quite literal way to run your website: using some kind of energy harvesting (bicycle?) used to power a small computer with a web server. This is an issue that is quite simple to solve. Many podcasters (espescially Joe Rogan) like to talk about being afraid of getting removed from a platform without having your own hosting set up. Most of the controversial big names of youtube and other platforms can and should stay as independent as possible. Twitter and others’ aim is to lure as many people as possible to their platforms. Once you are big enough you should probably seek out an independent way to distribute content.

rickyvetter 7y ago
Here's an example of a site that is doing something like this - https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
icebraining 7y ago
If you just want to distribute content, you're better off sharing bittorrent links. The problem is that those podcasters want the visibility and the ad money of those platforms. Which is valid, but not something that is solvable by self-hosting at home.
- PavlovsCat 7y ago
  We need to transition to solutions for it though, and a "hybrid" approach would be a move in the right direction. i.e. you don't have to leave the platforms, just make your own website, too. Yeah, it's more work, but nothing good will come of just leaving it to the big players and what they come up with. To even have leverage, people can't just be completely dependent, that's a non-starter.
  - kyshoc 7y ago
    IndieWeb calls this "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere"[0]. [0]: https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE
- rolph 7y ago
  back in the days of BBS we would mail check money order or bravely a greeting card and cash to the POB as requested. now that we have some crypto$ scheme, the prooblem is how to transform bitcoin into physical assets vice versa.
- anchpop 7y ago
  There's actually a browser that basically does this, called Beaker [0]. It uses a protocol called Dat which is very similar to Bittorent, but allows you to update your files after you originally publish them (in the form of an append-only log, so you can always see old versions of a particular site if you want to). [0]: https://beakerbrowser.com/ https://beakerbrowser.com/

rickyvetter 7y ago

Here's an example of a site that is doing something like this - https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html

icebraining 7y ago

If you just want to distribute content, you're better off sharing bittorrent links. The problem is that those podcasters want the visibility and the ad money of those platforms. Which is valid, but not something that is solvable by self-hosting at home.

PavlovsCat 7y ago
We need to transition to solutions for it though, and a "hybrid" approach would be a move in the right direction. i.e. you don't have to leave the platforms, just make your own website, too. Yeah, it's more work, but nothing good will come of just leaving it to the big players and what they come up with. To even have leverage, people can't just be completely dependent, that's a non-starter.
- kyshoc 7y ago
  IndieWeb calls this "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere"[0]. [0]: https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE
rolph 7y ago
back in the days of BBS we would mail check money order or bravely a greeting card and cash to the POB as requested. now that we have some crypto$ scheme, the prooblem is how to transform bitcoin into physical assets vice versa.
anchpop 7y ago
There's actually a browser that basically does this, called Beaker [0]. It uses a protocol called Dat which is very similar to Bittorent, but allows you to update your files after you originally publish them (in the form of an append-only log, so you can always see old versions of a particular site if you want to). [0]: https://beakerbrowser.com/ https://beakerbrowser.com/