Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing'

Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by sdhgaiojfsa on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @12:39PM (#16577459)

It would be used by 1% of the population, with the other 99% using something else that looks much like what we have today.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by mseebach on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @12:46PM (#16577499)

I was going to say something like this, except without the assumption that what we have today would exist. For all the concerns about walled gardens, I can still link to a Facebook post in a Slack message and vice versa. The hypothetical non-web-world would probably consist of Compuservs and MSNs, with very limited notions of links.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by ghostbrainalpha on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:01PM (#16577601)

Can you link directly to a Facebook video? That has gotten extremely hard unless you are using their app for some reason.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by mseebach on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:37PM (#16577965)

The timestamp is usually a direct link, I've used it to share a video a few times.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by 908087 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @12:55PM (#16577556)

You pretty much described Facebook's "internet".org / "free basics" in your last sentence.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by Karrot_Kream on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:21PM (#16577785)

You have a lot of faith in our current system

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is ... by sdhgaiojfsa on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @02:09PM (#16578298)

I wouldn't say so. I'm distraught by it, actually.

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