open-web

The EU's tech sovereignty plan prioritizes semiconductors, cloud, AI, and data centers while underfunding open source and decentralized social media, revealing a misunderstanding of social infrastructure as core infrastructure.

A survey analyzing over 300,000 web feeds on the top 500k sites reveals that while feeds remain prevalent, most are abandoned or low quality due to automatic CMS generation. The author used AI agents to process Common Crawl data and calls for better feed management practices.

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.