alt Hacker NewsThis is the classic 'things were better back then' crap. It was easy to let people set up their own website on your platform when CSAM was unheard of. It was easy to host a website when IPv4 addresses were plentiful and free. It was easy to get more land when you could declare war on the previous owner. It was easy to dump toxic waste when that was legal. The world changed for a reason.
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>It was easy to host a website when IPv4 addresses were plentiful and free.
Oh, you mean hosting as in, from your home. I wouldn't say hosting from a provider is significantly harder than at home. It might be philosophically more attractive. Serving the data (whether from rented or own hardware) is probably the least of the technical hurdles, especially compared to actually designing the site.
It’s far easier to host a website now than it has ever been.
The world can change both toward better and toward worst. The countries go from peaceful to war obsessed, from autocracy to genocide and from peaceful democratic to pogroms. Women or minorities can gain rights and loose rights.
The algorithmic propagation of toxicity is changing it towards worst. And internet is actively used to incite some of the things I listed above. And major companies actively facilitated those changes towards the worst. And by actively I mean "we now know they were actively helping the bad stuff to happen".
> The world changed for a reason.
Sure, but the actual reasons matter. A big part of it changed due to making the internet primarily a place for circulating ads, and that's a change many may not like.