I'll drop this idea again: a pure Markdown version of the web. The Web 0.5 if you will. No fancy markup, lay-outs, popups, GDPR notices, or scary tracking. Just content. Wouldn't that be nice?
I'm suggesting Markdown over plain text to still allow things like headings, emphasis and other semantic markup (and images of course). A subset of HTML would also do. HTML 1.0?
@zef Yeah this sounds kinda like Gemini / smolnet stuff?
But I'm unsure why they didn't just go with Markdown indeed. Imagine being able to use existing, local, editors like Typora etc. as page editors. Heck you could upload your entire Obsidian folder to a "Markweb" server and suddenly your personal knowledge base would be online with no edits necessary.
Personal themes in such a browser would also be simple to write and it would all look coherent due to no overrides.
Zef
Jonas Nordlund