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[–] 73 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There was a story recently about a depressing number of web domains disappearing. Everybody just gravitates to the big corporate sites now, and it makes the internet ecosystem boring and less diverse.

It's the equivalent of Walmarts running every mom & pop store out of town.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That, and hosting & domains got expensive. It used to be a trivial cost to have a website, now the prices are all "introductory offers" with asterisks.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    I'd say yes but it also really depends where you go. I used to host Feddit.dk at DigitalOcean, it was expensive af for like no hardware at all. Now I use Hetzner instead and it feels reasonable, especially their server auction.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Really? I'm paying $2 a month for hosting. Maybe you have bigger needs then

    I use a free subdomain because I don't have professional needs

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I’m kinda split on it tbh.

    On one hand, we have a literal ip spacing crisis - mainly because there’s bajillions of arguably repetitive content among other non scrupulous stuff.

    On the other hand, having a niche community has its pros.

    Totally agree with your analogy of Walmart though - but then there’s also things like FediNet which basically let people use a standard framework to hve their niches.

    It’ll be interesting to see what the future brings

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    On one hand, we have a literal ip spacing crisis

    I've been hearing about the IPv4 shortage for ages... hasn't happened yet.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    And IPv6 exists. If even a portion of large orgs switch to IPv6 for their internet exposed interfaces, the "problem" goes away.

    (I've been hearing about the shortage since 1995...and it hasn't happened. Large orgs will always find a way to resolve issues like this that affect them).

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    No, it's happened. You basically can't buy IPv4 addresses any more. Want to start up a hosting company or ISP? Better hope you know someone willing to sell, or you're going to be paying through the nose to a broker.

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