[lioeters]

> Why not give every user a base URL for their personal site, and serve pages under it directly from the browser running on their computer?

Your description reminds me of Beaker, the "peer-to-peer Web browser".

https://beakerbrowser.com/

I feel like Mozilla could do more to fund and otherwise support/promote such efforts for re-decentralizing the web, to bring the power balance back to the user.

[rwl]

Totally! Unfortunately, last I heard, Beaker was dead:

https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/discussions/1944

https://atek.cloud/blog/hello-world

This is a great idea, but the big problem with Beaker is the network effects: only Beaker users can see other Beaker users' sites. To be successful, I think the idea needs to run over regular HTTP(S) so that other browsers can still access these personal sites. This means, at least at the beginning, that someone needs to run the infrastructure that maps stable URLs to a P2P connection to individual browsers. Mozilla is in a good position to do that.

[lkbm]

ICQ99 also added a feature like this, despite being an instant messenger, not a web browser.

I wonder if you could just write a Firefox extension that did this. It seems like the sort of thing that could be a viral sensation to get teens using your product--a new MySpace--but unlikely to have a transformative effect on the web.