Gregory's Serverif you or your platform do not provide a way to link outside of your confines, can you still be considered to be a part of the web?
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@flamed This is a great question. Part of me wants to immediately say no, but I think about Gemini and at its core that feels more like the web than what we have mainstream today. I also feel like we are going to eventually need to wall ourselves off from the chaos of the web but that comes with so many problems I’ve never been able to see a way for that to work. |
@flamed While I agree with the idea that the hyperlink is a basic inalienable feature of the web, I can't help but wonder if the existence of gating mechanisms (e.g. accounts, paywalls, etc.) also helps break the fabric of the web in a more meaningful fashion.
If you include a link, but your content and that link is gated, does the link and that content exist as part of the web? Should links be bidirectional? I haven't fully explored this line of thinking. I'm just musing on "open web."