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Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

358 points · 118 comments · mooreds

  1. 6510 · · focus · HN ↗
    Imagine if normal people could install a single normal application and just run a website from a folder. CLI makes it more difficult than hosting a normal website. Typing commands you don't understand doesn't seem all that of a great idea.
    1. bitfilped · · focus · HN ↗
      If you don't understand what a command does, go learn it.
      1. paulryanrogers · · focus · HN ↗
        For us that's fine. It's quite a hill to climb for non technical folks. Even AIs holding their hand will have to do a lot of explaining.
      2. 6510 · · focus · HN ↗
        That would severely limit the amount and the kinds of content on tor. People know/understand different things, they spend their time learning more about those things. I think we would want them to make pages about those things rather than stop what they are doing to do something entirely different. People aren't stupid, it's an unattractive proposition. Publishing online is usually as easy as to register once then post into a text area.

        Kinda funny, I wondered what it would be like from that perspective but the first website about editing the config file strongly discourages doing that (specifically by instruction of random websites) then they throw you into an abyss of config file madness.

        Just the first task is already asking a lot from our proverbial botanist.

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