The Internet is mostly fine from a technical perspective. The oldest hardware in common use runs everything pretty much acceptably. The 20MB JavaScript doesn'

The Internet is mostly fine from a technical perspective. The oldest hardware in common use runs everything pretty much acceptably. The 20MB JavaScript doesn't matter when it's all cached because there are only 15 sites anyone visits. I'm not even sure personal sites are the answer, hosted platforms like neocities seem to have all the benefits with few of the hassles. What's ruining the internet is that we use it too much, endless scrolling, social platforms that don't prominently feature the actual user avatar and name near the content, algorithmic curation, etc. Decentralization would be nice to have, but federation isn't really decentralized, and it doesn't matter if the content and community is so awful nobody wants to use it. Most "Let's fix the internet" proposals are actively part of the problem which is that the internet has very little real world to reflect anymore. They're just putting the focus more on the tech itself. 90s internet tech was awful. Tech in general was worse in almost every way compared to now. I don't think I own any gadgets I'd like to replace with the old version... but we did seriously amazing things with it all, because the focus was on doing cool stuff, solving real problems, making art, etc, not making more tech and vaguely handwaving about what we might use it for. People never do anything but scroll, so there's nothing to write about, and no familiar reference points outside the internet to allow any understanding. Even the world's most major political issues are thought of in terms of memes these days.