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Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter (medium.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Ironic that he talks about Leadership, hindered by a lack of diversity, has steered away from a tool for public good and one that is instead subject to capitalist forces resulting in monopolisation in Medium, a company that also tries to monopolize and capitalize the blog’s information

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yea I agree, it's a bit strange to me that the inventor of the web doesn't seem to have a personal blog site for his own writing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Platforms actually have one significant advantage over personal websites, blogs, disconnected forums: You only have to go to one website (open one app) in order to read everything you find interesting. You don't have to remember to go to 5 different forums and read 15 different blogs.

Of course the disadvantage is that they are a lot easier to censor because they're a single point of failure.

ActivityPub should in theory be the best of both worlds, but I am not too optimistic; people, organizations, governments wanting to censor people they don't like will always find a way. :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

When you invent the www, you get to use w3.org as your blog... e.g.

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Charlie.html

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't seem like he's used it since 2020 though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So? He stays pretty busy with Solid / Inrupt and his other advocacy (e.g., the OP article...)

Perhaps he sees the personal blog format as a bit egotistical or otherwise not fit for purpose. Or perhaps he just isn't a naturally talented writer. Its not as if he's shy about sharing his thoughts outside that.

Also worth noting that he and Bruce Schneier, who is a much more prolific writer, share many of the same views and partner together at Inrupt.