Gregory's Serverit is so extremely weird to me that so many systems that are explicitly graphs (semweb/linked data, graphql, etc.) don't do the obvious, convenient, and well defined thing of making the interface a freaking *graph*
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people freaking love graphs. i have never had such a solid 100% conversion and amazement rate with showing someone a piece of software as I have with taking a few notes in obsidian and then showing someone the graph view. |
eg. in 2010 Tim BL specifically recommended *against* representing linked data as a graph using the standard "normal users" argument, but did they like, try that first... The rest of this document argues in favor of tree representations (which are just a constrained graph layout) but the whole thrust of the argument is hiding the graph structure rather than making it manageable to interact with
https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TabulatorGoals.html