@oluOnline@social.gfsc.studio I think it goes without saying that the web, for all of its advancements, has brought upon more failures than what should be acceptable from an invention that is now universal among most of the population. The fact that the motto 'move fast and break things' was considered gospel for so many years among wannabe tech entrepreneurs is more than indicitive of that sentiment. The rise of companion technology that serves no purpose other than to enforce copyright (DRM, Manifest V3, Web Environment Integrity, etc.) has also always been completely incoherent to me, especially in an era where copying is now a rite of passage. Clearly, rights holders haven't learned shit from Napster.

> What do you hope "comes back"/what do you hope is to come?

I miss the days when the web was simpler. When people just wrote, and that was the end of it. Standards like RSS was a perfect compliment to that, and helped usher in an era of legitimate decentralization that I don't think has ever been done before. Ultimately, though, something like RSS couldn't really keep up with the ever-evolving idea of how people engage with content on the web--how could something like liking or commenting on a post really be expressed elegantly through something like RSS? By the end of the mid-2010s, RSS was basically dead, and although a light revival has come in the last couple of years, it's mostly a trivial advancement in my opinion. ActivityPub has done a lot for being the closest thing to bringing decentralization to social media again, but I doubt it'll ever reach the wide levels of adoption that RSS did at it's height. Such a shame, really.

If we're lucky, that idea of legitimate decentralization will come back. It's something of a pipe dream, but it's still a hope for me nevertheless.

> what are you hoping stays dead

Web3, or to be more specific, 'blockchain over HTTP'. A needless, stupid idea from the start that was only seen as innovative by people who had no idea what the hell they were talking about, and built by people had no clue of the implications of what building the 'latest and greatest' social media platform on top of the digital equivalent of bank statements was. Most of the grifters there have thankfully moved onto AI shit--not a big improvement, but it could be far worse, I guess.