--- title: A Website To End All Websites | daily.dev description: The modern internet has devolved from a creative, educational space into an attention-extracting machine dominated by algorithmic feeds and corporate... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-website-to-end-all-websites-eip6botfc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Website To End All Websites | daily.dev og:description: The modern internet has devolved from a creative, educational space into an attention-extracting machine dominated by algorithmic feeds and corporate... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-website-to-end-all-websites-eip6botfc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EiP6boTfC.png og:image:alt: A Website To End All Websites og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Website To End All Websites **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 15 min read · 302 upvotes · 33 comments ## Summary The modern internet has devolved from a creative, educational space into an attention-extracting machine dominated by algorithmic feeds and corporate platforms. Drawing on Ivan Illich's concept of convivial tools, the piece argues that personal websites—hand-coded, independently owned, and syndicated through protocols like RSS and Webmentions—represent the antidote to platform monopolies. By building small, reducing friction to publishing, and leveraging IndieWeb standards, developers can reclaim autonomy, creativity, and meaningful connection online. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@bramminzo** · 21 upvotes > "Trans women are women. Trans rights are human rights. Fix your heart or die." What a nice slogan to start your own portfolio website with! **@feforeboot** · 18 upvotes > What a bunch of obnoxious, self-indulgent fluff. **@zenotds** · 17 upvotes > The only thing destroyed in this website is accessibility. Almost impossible to read. **@benthomasknight** · 8 upvotes > I love the layout when it is half may monitor, but when it is full it is really too spread out to be comfortable to read. Perhaps that is ultrawide issues though and not the pages problem 😅 **@clusterz** · 7 upvotes > Yeah, no .... what a piece of wasted bandwith. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The small, real, original web](https://daily.dev/posts/the-small-real-original-web-zypek258d) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Using the internet like its 1999](https://daily.dev/posts/using-the-internet-like-its-1999-hfy00usnz) · Hacker News · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#html](https://daily.dev/tags/html), [#social-media](https://daily.dev/tags/social-media) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-website-to-end-all-websites-eip6botfc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"A Website To End All Websites","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-website-to-end-all-websites-eip6botfc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-website-to-end-all-websites-eip6botfc"},"datePublished":"2026-01-01T22:38:14.472Z","dateModified":"2026-01-01T22:38:39.335Z","description":"The modern internet has devolved from a creative, educational space into an attention-extracting machine dominated by algorithmic feeds and corporate...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ccbe9981fca050bf7c23dce6e1dcd00f?_a=AQAEulh","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ccbe9981fca050bf7c23dce6e1dcd00f?_a=AQAEulh","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":33,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-website-to-end-all-websites-eip6botfc","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":302},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":33}],"keywords":"webdev,css,html,social-media","timeRequired":"PT15M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"A Website To End All Websites"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-website-to-end-all-websites-eip6botfc","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"“Trans women are women. 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