The corporate web may be dying/reinventing itself. Everyone talks about FOSS and having a user driven experience.
But one thing we don’t have is a true FOSS web, a protocol like HTTP that only allows FOSS websites to be hosted and bars any corporate interest from hosting for profit.
Would something like that be possible? A “dark web” but not for illicit schemes but for free and open hosted content?
You go to https://website for your comporate fix and to foss:// for none “open source” content. (Stuff like fediverse, self hosted websites etc.)
You’d have to have a governing body, something like the Free Software Foundation that ensures everyone hosting on the foss-web follows the open source guidelines and goes after violators.
“dark web” is what mass media calls what is not in the “clearnet”. there are already protocols in place like tor, i2p, gemini, gopher etc.
this is the exact same thing i’ve been wondering for a while now.
we used to have dynamic ip’s. we could update our a little longer tld’s to our everchanging dynamic ip’s and that was that. i could even host a mail server this way. i had a script that updated my mx and a records and i was good to go.
now most isp’s give you shared dynamic ip’s that you have no way of exposing your local machine to your tld.
i now have my local server serve my nextcloud instance over tor. it’s a little slower but i don’t need a governing body to setup my tld, which was my end goal.
there exists a script called fedproxy but i haven’t had time to investigate. it would be cool if it worked.