Anton Maliauski Anton Maliauski

Open standards, instead of subordinating platform standards

December 21, 2023
From series The web is back
  1. Open standards, instead of subordinating platform standards
  2. It's time to take back the web

Today, while working on his Space , I decided to check what the preview of the notes 1 in Meta would look like. But he changed his mind after he saw a “closed door” in the form of a login page. My page Facebook I have long been closed and I don’t want to check I can enter using the login and password or I need to restore the account first (or it will recover after entering the debugger).

Login page for the Meta repost debugger
Login page for the Meta repost debugger

But we are talking about something else. More recently, every platform came up with and imposed on us its standards. As an example, AMP from Google or the same pages from Facebook (I don’t even remember what they called). They try to introduce such standards in any direction of technology, because it is profitable to manage the standard and have dependent users.

But not users must obey the standards of platforms, but the platforms obey open standards. As an example, Obsidian , which is based on simple text files. Today Meta it seems to have moved a little in this direction - Threads will support ActivityPub And this is already good. I am watching!


  1. meta-tag OG: Image ↩︎

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From series The web is back:
  1. Open standards, instead of subordinating platform standards
  2. It's time to take back the web