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@gabrielesvelto Yeah, I feel very at home amongst the geeks. But I also feel we lost a global town square.
Mastodon is definitely my favourite of the three, but it lacks polish and broad appeal.
My microblogging is split across Twitter, Mastodon and Bluesky. Twitter (I refuse to use its porn name) is full of vitriol, Mastodon is all geeks and Bluesky feels like a political bubble. Conversations feel fragmented, engagement is rock bottom and it's just not the same.
I feel like if we could just settle on one protocol (or at least bridge to the extent that it doesn't matter), bringing Mastodon and Bluesky together could really help.
Yes, but is it the web?
What is the web? I’ve been working in the web since the beginning of the web, and I co-chaired the W3C Technical Architecture Group for over a decade, so you think I might be able to answer this simple question. Some think anything you can do “in the browser” is the web and anything that happens outside the browser (such as in a native app) isn’t the web. However, you can have very non-webby experiences in the browser and likewise apps can sometimes be very webby. I think the web […]https://www.torgo.com/blog/2026/03/yes-but-is-it-the-web.html
@daniel At a slightly deeper level I think for something to be really web-like it needs to be resource-oriented and RESTful, but there are lots of things built on the web which are neither (e.g. XML-RPC, SOAP, and more recently AT Protocol and MCP).
Ultimately it's very difficult to come up with a single definition but I really like The Verge's definition which centers on being linkable and client-agnostic.
@daniel I personally keep coming back to an old article on The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/24/15681958/what-is-web-definition) which says that to be part of the web something has to:
1. Be linkable, and
2. Allow any client to access it.
I really like that definition.
We spent over a decade standardising the Web of Things, but I believe it’s still missing a key component it needs in order to grow. I this blog post I provide a deep-dive retrospective into the last 10+ years of standardisation, how the Web of Things is being used today, and what I believe it is sti
@evert Yes, this was central to my debate with Gemini 😂
Whether it's OK for the controller to manipulate the view and whether the view can query the state of the model. It kept telling me one thing and then doing another.
In the end I settled on the strict interpretation that controller manipulates the model, the view observes the model, and the controller provides callbacks to the view.
We'll see how that goes!
Daniel Appelquist