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Wow, you totally get my vision!

This is pretty much my plan for the next few years, with some added surprises :)

I really want to rekindle the days of geocities and flash. I call this "the cheap web" haha

I've also been working on open standards for authentication and payments within the ecosystem, but I'm not quite happy with the results yet. I don't like this world where we have to use companies like Auth0 and Stripe to build something worthwhile. I'm open to ideas!

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You should look into https://small-tech.org/. I don't know if they're still active (I discovered them a few months ago, and they seemed active.) But they definitely have a similar point of view.

They are active. You can follow Aral Balkan [0] and Laura Kalbag [1] on the Fediverse. Aral is building a range of small-tech goodies, like Kitten [2], a small web development kit. And they are starting their 'Small is Beautiful' [3] livestreams again, using Owncast.

[0] https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral

[1] https://mastodon.laurakalbag.com/@laura

[2] https://codeberg.org/kitten

[3] https://owncast.small-web.org/

Use some type of cryptocurrency for payments, or maybe a unified interface to different cryptocurrencies.

Or maybe you can come up with something similar to a cryptocurrency that integrates with your data structure and has core things like digital signatures for secure transactions and public distributed ledger(s). It seems like there could be a way to adapt some underlying features of ScrapScript for this stuff. Maybe as part of the "lab" thing.

Just don't call it a cryptocurrency. Lol.

Why inject money into everything? I don't remember the cheap web being focused on micro transactions and ponzi schemes. That's the opposite of what the author (and many others) want.

Exactly. Throw "cryptocurrency" into anything you want to spoil and witness the dynamics of greed ruin the fruits of your labour.