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A philosophical essay critiquing centralized tech power structures ('Broligarchy') in contrast to the decentralized 'Thicket Web Mind' framework.
Explains why the concept of 'instances' from Mastodon/ActivityPub does not apply to ATProto (Bluesky's protocol), clarifying that hosting and aggregation are separate in ATProto's architecture.
A blog post argues that the decline of search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo presents an opportunity to revive the web through hyperlinks, introducing a personal links page as a decentralized alternative.
A writer argues that the internet has become degraded by spam, AI-generated content, and profit motives, and calls for building a new decentralized internet from scratch.
Developer Rodrigo Arias Mallo proposes forking the Web by creating an alternative, simplified HTML/Web specification with goals including strict semantic versioning, a formal unambiguous grammar, and a size-constrained spec to encourage browser diversity. The proposal is linked to the lightweight Dillo browser project.