Re: The "Social Web" vs the "Fediverse"

Thank Adam for the link. I will read it.

Best,
Daniel

Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com> writes:

> Bob,
> Daniel,
>
> Hello. You might find interesting the recent Web Share recommendation by the Web Applications Working Group:
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/web-share/
>
> Best regards,
> Adam
>  
>
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> From: Daniel Hernandez <daniel@degu.cl>
> Sent: Monday, January 1, 2024 11:45 AM
> To: Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us>
> Cc: public-swicg@w3.org <public-swicg@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: The "Social Web" vs the "Fediverse" 
>  
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us> writes:
>
>> Johannes,
>> One obvious thing that BBC, or any other web publisher, could do to
>> work better with the Social Web would be to extend the "Share" options
>> they provide to include a link to Mastodon or to a more generic
>> ActivityPub service. Today, the BBC supports "sharing" with Facebook,
>> X, LinkedIn, and Email, but there is no Mastodon or ActivityPub
>> option. (See image below and look on the right side.)
>
> I just read your text above, and I wanted to comment on it. To me, share
> links are a sign of bad design. The main problem with sharing links is
> that they are vendor-dependent. To facilitate the sharing of their
> contents, websites end with several links to specific vendor platforms
> where you can share the contents. Since websites end up giving publicity
> to a reduced number of vendor platforms, a reduced set of vendors and
> this way to share content gets reinforced. This is a vicious
> circle. Instead, websites should not worry about the way content is
> shared, nor the vendor platforms that are popular nowadays but declare a
> permalink. We just need this:
>
> <link rel="bookmark" href="http://example.com/bookmark/123/" />
>
> This declarative design will allow websites to last. Following the
> declarative design you do not need to change your website after a vendor
> like Twitter changes its name to X. It should be the responsibility of
> the browser to do something with those links. When you right-click on
> the link, the browser should ask you how you want to share that content
> (and remember your previous decisions). Unfortunately, people (and
> vendors) make things complicated and vendor-dependent.
>
> Best,
> Daniel

Received on Tuesday, 2 January 2024 09:11:10 UTC