In all seriousness though, the core of the technical stack has become very robust in my opinion (DNS being the exception). From a hobbyist's perspective, things work much better than when the Web was still young. I can run multiple sites (some of them being what are today called apps) on a domain with subdomains, everything fast, HTTP3-capable, secured via valid free TLS certs, reverse proxied, all of that running on a system deployed in minutes...

If you focus on the part of the Internet that you have control over, it's a lot better than back in the simple days.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

Usenet is still in use btw. And so is Nostr.

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine, we could kill all NAT/DNS/(reverse)proxy routing problems by adapting finally to IPv6

[–] Laser@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

I don't only run a reverse proxy because of having only a single public IPv4 address, but that probably is the best part

In general, I'd say reverse proxies make things somewhat easier to manage, especially when it comes to TLS. No need for every service to integrate it.