This is exciting; it might even enable the fix to social media I proposed a while back (http://csidemedia.com/gryphonclerks/2018/01/09/fixing-social-media-part-1-the-big-fix/), in which you’re in control of your content, where it’s posted, and how you consume others’ content.
Originally shared by John Ward
This is promising. Tim Berners-Lee is trying to create an infrastructure that would allow people to own and control their data instead of trusting it to the many companies who buy and sell every bit of your personal information they can get. From the article:
When asked about this, Berners-Lee says flatly: “We are not talking to Facebook and Google about whether or not to introduce a complete change where all their business models are completely upended overnight. We are not asking their permission.”
I like your discussion of the decentralized social network. I’ve often thought about that kind of system but not in as much detail.
I also agree that collections would be better implemented as tags, i.e. a post could be in multiple collections just by giving it more than one tag.
It’s what the blogosphere was meant to be, but seldom was. Or: it’s universal Tumblr.
Mike Reeves-McMillan But I’d want comments to be handled better than the way Tumblr does. I’d want to comment on my feed-reader and have the comment show up amidst the comments on the original content.
Yes, so would I. With the owner of the original content able to kick comments (and commenters) off, but the comment could remain on your end still pointing to the content.