@j12t open web to me means available across all browsers and built with non-proprietary web standards

@j12t unsecured adhoc wifi mesh blanketing a region 😌

@j12t data available through http(s) that is available without logging in to a site

@j12t often used broadly: available across browsers using non-proprietary tech.

but i think sometimes more narrowly used to mean: also not behind a login. open to the web.

@j12t Stuff you can link to and it opens in a browser window.

@j12t Pages that can be read in a web browser without demanding login-wall, paywall etc or some proprietary plugin/extension/hardware key

@j12t A decentralized town square where citizens own their content and can take it with them to other open web sites.

@j12t It means pre-web 2.0 when people were more likely to have their website and reference each other either in posts, web rings, etc and open formats like RSS to genuinely share information.

Basically everything was a hustle for money while trying to control every aspect of a user's experience even if that means providing a worse experience to squeeze out a few more clicks.

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An inter-operative web based on open standards and protocols, not walled, corporate fiefdoms structured around shareholder supremacy.

@j12t the permissionless web. Meaning if there’s an important entity (registrar or hosting company or something else) that chooses not to do business with you, you can try another.

@j12t stateless urls (fuck paywalls and content behind a subscription) with content accessible in the html without the need for a JavaScript engine.

@j12t Well for one, my ability to engage with content across both Bluesky and Mastodon in one app like I’m doing now with @openvibe , despite different open protocols

@j12t Something that is not a walled garden - I would expect to be able to see content without login or paywall, and maybe even some kind of interoperability

@j12t It can’t be accurately described in few words, but at a summary level:

The open web is a place where each site has a limited scope, does nothing in particular to prevent you from moving on to other sites, and nobody controls a significant share of the total traffic.

@j12t for me is all the web outside YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and tiktok

@j12t I think of open standards like RSS and I think blog and personal websites.

@j12t In practice I think it means every web site except VLOPs/Big Tech, DRMed streaming, and corporate SaaS. More about what it's not

@j12t It’s what the web looks like when a spider hasn’t caught any food yet. It’s closed when the spider wraps up the stuck bugs for dinner.

@j12t a system of interconnected platforms designed to work together and share content as opposed to trying to lock it up for clicks/eyes

@j12t the web as it could have been if profiteers hadn’t distorted its development. Everything interoperable, links that work (no need to invent the term “deep link”), browsers that don’t spy on you, sites made by people who care about their content (no SEO or LLM gibberish), and social platforms that enable communication rather than capturing ad views. (Maybe even portable identities, but that might be a stretch.)

Basically, an internet made for enrichment rather than extraction

@j12t my sense is sites put up for their own purposes, serving their users. So, not a Facebook-only marketplace page, or a search engine subsisting on selling user data to advertisers. Craigslist or Wikipedia come to mind. Also protocols over sites; email vs slack

Un-minified source code, semantic HTML, accessible pages, lots of public APIs, web pages built with mostly open source packages and crediting them. No (fewer?) nations blocking sites.

@j12t my first association is the IP system - if you have your IP and have certain ports open with certain software running on it, you and I can communicate from all across the world, thanks to all the different types of networking gear in between us.

@j12t meaning you don't need an account and a docile browser to access the data contained therein.

@j12t @anildash Here’s a crack at it: content served over HTTP that doesn’t require authentication to view.

Put differently: if you can send someone a link, and they see the same content without an account, it’s on the open web.