A honest reminder: we already have a document-oriented web, it's name is "web". html+css distributed via http, are actually that. Recently there is a certain p

A honest reminder: we already have a document-oriented web, it's name is "web". html+css distributed via http, are actually that. Recently there is a certain push toward a comeback to such classic model with personal static websites vaguely used as blogs. The main issue is not much an alternative to such well-established and well-known model but the actual web evolution, the sole way to fight it it's NOT following the same model "correcting the aim" but proposing a different model. Classic desktops and Plan 9 propose a different model that IMVHO we desperately need today. So why propose "another web"? Any platform have two initial big issues: users and contents. The classic web is already accessible by anyone, just using and advertising it well suffice, put a very well visible feed icon on any personal website, dedicating a page to explain how to use a feed reader and proposing an opml with a set of interesting feeds [1] telling why feeds are personal aggregators and while far underdeveloped they can still work very well as they are and with more popularity they might get new features like a personal recommendation engine, tweakable by it's user, not by some corporate propaganda interests. Offering a newsletter option, full article in the mail, text or html without remote contents or even option for pdf-atteched articles beautifully made by LaTeX from some source, like org-mode export complete the game. The consumers barrier is essentially zero. The producer barrier is still significant since it demand some monetary investments, but since having a personal home-server is something more and more popular and in many place of the world domestic connections start to have a decent enough upload it's not that hard to offer nice pre-cooked distros (some already exists since many years) NOT full of crappy corporate-pushed tech like docker/k*s/proxmox-on-raspberry and other absurdity fairly common today + advertising a bit things like ZeroNet (not that good, but perform well enough and it's just an easy to deploy python package) might be of help. The rest arrive is that get a bit of traction. Next step: talking place. Usenet is widespread even if almost faded into oblivion, it's not that hard to revive it, some have already done that for piracy/commercial purposes with dedicated binary groups to spread music, TV series etc to a point that for a certain slice of the public usenet today is a substitute for bittorrent yesterday. File sharing? Retroshare is a good example and the success of PopcornTime clearly say that's possible IF there is a community behind with good intentions (so for instance not focused on piracy from day zero). Again the rest might follow, trying to push absurd social like fediverse is instead a recipe to a disaster. We have desktops, not much datacenters, a solution for us the people is desktop based, not modern web/cloud copy... [1] if a visitor find a website interested probably some/many other feeds followed by the website author will be interesting for the visitor as well.