Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept

Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by calgoo on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @06:40AM (#27352654)

One example for this that i have been thinking of is chat. Instead of having 15 different apps, we should be able to choose which UI we want to use, and then that opens the chat streams. Kind of like email, where you can use any client. However most big companies would fight this every step as they loose control.

Edit: I envision it a bit like streams of data that you can subscribe / push to. Think RSS mixed with a pub/sub type of model. You would subscribe to the hackernews datastream, and submitting articles and comments are done using push. The push message would have some predefined metadata fields that are obligatory (article url, title, summary or comment text).

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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by aetherspawn on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:37AM (#27353516)

This is centralisation from the bottom up! You don’t want this. If everything talks the same protocol, some giant will eventually own the protocol in the same way Google stole the web with Chrome.

Can you imagine if Android licensed iMessage instead of building Hangouts? Yes, we’d all be texting on the same protocol, and yes we’d have a choice of clients, but at what cost?

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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by mike97 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:01AM (#27352791)

Matrix does exactly what you're saying, you can use different apps, create your own also you can self host your own node or use someone else to join.

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