"we need a new web"
Making a "new web" is not going to fix the capitalist dynamics that led to this one being appropriated by corporations.
"Replacing HTTP" is not going to fix any of the problems that we have with web monopolization today, because it is only a transport protocol, and has nothing to do with how the content is accessed or displayed, or what it can do.
"Replacing HTML and CSS" raises the question of what you want to replace it with, and to solve what problem? Because while certainly not perfect, they solve very difficult problems reasonably effectively.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't do anything about the increasing monopolization of the web, quite the opposite. But if we want to actually do so *effectively*, a good start is to understand what the actual root cause of the problem is, and it isn't the technology stack.
"we need a new web"
@joepie91 I just think about that line from that one Dan Olsen video, actually two lines, the one about how tech bros think they're uniquely positioned to solve the world's problems, and also the one about how the problem isn't the tech, it's patterns of human behaviour.
Yes, programmers have and will complain about the implementation of the tools, but the tools weren't the problem.
"we need a new web"
@mdstevens0612 @joepie91 its not a problem of human behavior its problem of capitalism. "Human behavior" is a long running capitalist myth used to justify exploitation.
"we need a new web"
@squeakypancakes Capitalism *is* human behaviour. Not inherently, not all of us, but it's exclusive to humans. It's a system we came up with and we put into place. And when building systems, it's super important to understand that not everyone is going to play ball. Some subsection of the population will try to misuse what you've built because in the here and now, we have a fuck ton of capitalists.
Re: "we need a new web"
@joepie91 changing or replacing parts of the stack can definitely be helpful though, especially where those technologies have been extended with capitalist bullshit. But they’ll just do the same to the new stuff if we don’t cultivate a culture of rejecting capital and it’s influence. And for that matter, rejecting racism and whiteness.
"we need a new web"
@joepie91 Especially I am confused about the "solutions" so far all I have seen actually made it more attractive/focused for corporations rather than the users.