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Re:The Web We Have to Save by rm_-rf_slash on Monday August 03, 2015 @09:38AM (#9995656)
Perhaps the centralization is a necessary function of technological progress. Once Web 2.0 was a thing, everybody had comment sections. Now the dial is being turned back, and comments sections are beginning to be seen as tacky.

In some ways, the web is already decentralizing, or at least moving away from monolithic control by social networks. For younger people, Facebook is basically dead and snapchat does the job.

I doubt we will see significant technological innovation in the next 20 years that matches the scale of interactivity the web brought for the first 20. Maybe VR will be that next step, but even that won't likely change the dynamics of casual web browsing in between work, for example.

So in short, I think that since we've developed all the basics, the state of the web will start to resemble fashion, rather than technological progress.

Re:The Web We Have to Save by dreamfactory2 on Monday August 03, 2015 @03:12PM (#9999010)
Salmon protocol provides very powerful decentralised commenting - http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/SWA...
Re:The Web We Have to Save by nly on Monday August 03, 2015 @10:20AM (#9995978)
> Once Web 2.0 was a thing, everybody had comment sections. Now the dial is being turned back, and comments sections are beginning to be seen as tacky.

I suppose the 'Web 1.0' equivalent, if we persist in these ridiculous version numbers, would be Guestbooks.

Re:The Web We Have to Save by rm_-rf_slash on Monday August 03, 2015 @10:27AM (#9996046)
It depends on what the needs are. We have the infrastructure and libraries to do pretty much anything. Our limit is our imagination. Cheesy, I know, but it's true.