> Building your own Linux is impossible too, but no one bitches & moans about that. No one slams Android for saying they couldn't go make their own easily.
you’re literally just not in the right circles.
> Of course the most successful online system in the world is complex & featureful. That's why we use it & it has won.
combine these two and you get the meme about IRC users (a protocol you could implement in a day) who refuse to leave that ecosystem. so as a starting point, if you’re looking for the people who are passionate about that kind of simplicity, you’ll have to meet them there. i’d start with the alternative kernels/OS (serenity, 9front, hurd) and then maybe the language side of things (Hare certainly has a prominent dev known for ranting about complexities). either way if you’re willing to dig, you absolutely will find the viewpoints around simplicity which you posit don’t exist.
Gopher and Gemini might be up your alley too. not as low in the stack as the others, but especially the latter's a pretty direct response against "Why would the world's most successful & available hypermedia platform need to be something one can easily implement".
I admit & admire that the story could change any day, & these tiny little niche communities could become relevant & important.
But there seems to be this attitude specifically against the web that the web needs to remain small enough for anyone to DIY quickly. That's just not how you get the most popular most useful most interesting hypermedia canvas on the planet.
The desire to reduce the web down is a sick one, malicious projection of a limited conservative worldview, on something that has become so great because we have cared about it enough to grow it.
you’re literally just not in the right circles.
> Of course the most successful online system in the world is complex & featureful. That's why we use it & it has won.
combine these two and you get the meme about IRC users (a protocol you could implement in a day) who refuse to leave that ecosystem. so as a starting point, if you’re looking for the people who are passionate about that kind of simplicity, you’ll have to meet them there. i’d start with the alternative kernels/OS (serenity, 9front, hurd) and then maybe the language side of things (Hare certainly has a prominent dev known for ranting about complexities). either way if you’re willing to dig, you absolutely will find the viewpoints around simplicity which you posit don’t exist.
Gopher and Gemini might be up your alley too. not as low in the stack as the others, but especially the latter's a pretty direct response against "Why would the world's most successful & available hypermedia platform need to be something one can easily implement".