Comment by 4lx87
18 hours ago
The web is already structured like this. You can poll a URL for updates. You can host your own data. Anyone can build an app that aggregates from everyone's data.
18 hours ago
The web is already structured like this. You can poll a URL for updates. You can host your own data. Anyone can build an app that aggregates from everyone's data.
Yes, all of those things are possible. Now imagine a protocol built from the ground up for those purposes, not just possible, but the entire community and ecosystem embracing those things.
you mean http?
We've tried that, multiple times. Semantic Web, "everyone has an API" and more before and after, none of them gain sufficient traction to stick around and be built on top of.
> Anyone can build an app that aggregates from everyone's data.
Unless they gut or disable their API, and then ban scrapers, although I understand why after seeing bots crush sites.
Who are “they” here? Hosting providers? Hosting is app-agnostic and you can run it yourself.