Comment by 😎 bababooey
Re: "Which parts of the web want saving? Which can we do without?"
I think it's gonna be hard to put the genie back in the bottle. Websites are analogous to software now, and it's going to be hard to come up with a way to only restrict the parts that can be exploited by advertisers without also removing functionality that is needed to serve the kind of rich web experiences that people have come to expect. I think rather than rebooting the internet, it would be better to offer a lo-fi web experience that is truly attractive to at least a non-negligible part of the population.
2024-11-25 · 1 year ago
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Which parts of the web want saving? Which can we do without? — Let’s have an unrealistic hypothetical here. Suppose the http web were replaced entirely by a new protocol (or maybe set of protocols?) which allowed for client side scripting, unrestricted styling, and all the other aspects of the web which make it distinct. Except this time, everything was being built from scratch, with person-first values in mind, like privacy, accessibility, ease of use, etc. The designers of this protocol are...