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Like I said in the op, I’m aware of the naivety. In other words, it is a stupid question intended to expand my understanding.
Why can’t you script the server with the same functions to do all of the required processing locally? Why do you need to move that script to the client machine? I’m not talking about conventions or languages or browsers or even infrastructure per say. Fundamentally, I do not understand why processing should ever happen on a client device.
Like I don’t care about marketing and styling aesthetics enough to sell myself into digital slavery. My device should take content and best display that content independent of outside sources. Things like the entire Unicode fonts library should be required in every device made. Any further fonts and styling I see are entirely up to me. For content you host, the website should have a selection of image sizes and frames configured and available where my device selects the best compromise according to my settings.
In my ideal internet, all Internet connections are a two way static IP address. Most of the web should be hosted on distributed local nodes. Everything I do and share should just be a thing on a single board computer hanging off my router that is as easy and simple as just plugging in, powering on, and using a couple of thumb drives to manually pass encryption keys between devices to setup the system securely without further understanding required. Then I can use the raw IP or create an account on a .publiccommons server that hosts the DNS table with an annual automated email cycle to continue the records.
I have shared a bunch of unique content on both YouTube and GitHub, and several forums before that. I never have tried to monetize any of it. I would prefer to self host that stuff, but I am not into the hobby of self hosting, and when I look into it, the subject seems ridiculously overcomplicated without a reasonable entry level minimum scope clearly defined. I assume this obfuscating complexity is because it is a profitable exploitation model to obscure this obvious democratic solution.
Like, if you are hosting a bunch of traffic from users that have a similar vested interest, hosting should not be entirely centralized. The users should have the ability to shoulder a part of that load as a remote cache if they choose.
Lol. I never have enabled js. If the website is broken by that, I consider the thing a zombie monster and do not care in the slightest. If I really need something, I can usually find it quickly just by viewing the page source. I have no idea what the modern web looks like, and I feel no different. My life does not feel like there has been any loss. The things I have not been a part of, are all shit shows people complain about and are usually trying to escape.