The internet’s fine - the web’s the problem.

ssh, Call of Duty, email, random voice-call software on strange ports - all of them work fine. People have problems with websites.

Plenty of websites of course are fine, the problems present when people use search engines and find a bunch of guff written by a bot, Paywalls, and sign-up screens.

They say the best way to predict the future is to create it, so if you want to help there, ‘make good art’, write and share good content, don’t feed the machine. Sounds like you’re doing that already if you’re on Lemmy.

And if you want to check out a quieter corner of the internet, where things aren’t all in-your-face-sing-up-click-here-now-NOW-DOIT…download the lagrange browser and check out Gemini. It’s a mostly plain-text protocol, where people read and write, and sometimes share whacky music.

Random thoughts in no particular order:

• The writing seems clear after a skim.
• The formatting is ugly as all hell. If you want a plain document with nice formatting, can I recommend LaTeX?
• Given that indie projects are only read by people who read indie RPG projects, maybe the ‘what is an RPG’ section could swap out for ‘very fast rules summary’. But I guess the “Philosophy” section covers that.
• With all the emphasis on time tracking, maybe provide a character sheet which lets you pin-point things which will happen at a particular time? Like coins for 10-minute tracker, and pencilled-in events for the months-long actions?
• I don’t understand this magic system.

The apps are certainly in need of all the help they can get. I have Lemur and Jerboa, and they’re both janky as all heck.

About 50% of what I read online is just RSS. For cli fans, newsboat lets you extend the RSS feeds really easily. So far, I have:

• gemini translation, to get gemini feeds, and a hotkey to open them.
• a hotkey to open things in w3m (most articles work fine in the terminal, many are easier to read)
• a hotkey to open youtube videos
• another to download them and watch later