I absolutely love thew web. I wish I could get onboard with this sentiment. But, the web bitrots away, piece by piece year by year. Archive.org mercifully backstops against much of the loss. But its not enough.
And demanding everyone buy and own a domain name & figure out hosting seems unviable as requirements for the world's mass communication system.
The Bluesky PDS architecture is a lovely lovely modest & small iteration on the web, adds only a bit more. To make your vault of content still addressable, still a URL, but one tied to a cryptographic identifier. And to make the content all signed and secure.
And demanding everyone buy and own a domain name & figure out hosting seems unviable as requirements for the world's mass communication system.
The Bluesky PDS architecture is a lovely lovely modest & small iteration on the web, adds only a bit more. To make your vault of content still addressable, still a URL, but one tied to a cryptographic identifier. And to make the content all signed and secure.