Robin Berjon (@robin@mastodon.social) - Mastodon
1.8K Posts, 469 Following, 3.73K Followers · Governance & Standards at @protocollabs — Former NYT, W3C TAG, science.ai — Privacy, Web, Science, Politics, Philosophy. (he/him/Ishmael)| Mastodon
1.8K Posts, 469 Following, 3.73K Followers · Governance & Standards at @protocollabs — Former NYT, W3C TAG, science.ai — Privacy, Web, Science, Politics, Philosophy. (he/him/Ishmael)| Mastodon
Putting human agency back into technology. Brussels, 🇪🇺. • tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns • blog: https://berjon.com/ • fmr W3C, NYT, ScienceAI, Protocol Labs • he/him/Ishmael • Signal robin.77| Bluesky Social
Thought experiment: how hard would it be to implement ActivityPub over ATProto? The answer might surprise you!| Robin Berjon
A vision for three key changes to how apps and services work today| www.wildbuilt.world
Browsers are hugely load-bearing in the Web's architecture, and yet they haven't changed very much in quite a while. If the Web is indeed for user agency, we should take a hard look at our user agents to see if they might not need improvement.| Robin Berjon
We take the Web for granted as that thing that's there and we talk of things being good or bad for the Web, but we don't ever sit down and really say what the Web is for. I take a look at this question with an eye towards understanding what it is we need to do to build a Web that's actually better.| Robin Berjon
Search on the web, for most people, has become a deplorable experience. It is such a key function that it can feel unfixable, but by treating search as an architectural component of the web (which it effectively is) and working our way through the issues it creates, we can define an alternative that is both realistic and superior.| Robin Berjon
This is the kick-off post in a series in which I'm going to explore things that we could change about the Web. The odds are pretty good that I will be wrong, possibly even very wrong. You're going to dislike some, or perhaps all of it! My point isn't to jump straight into building these ideas — even though I do believe they point in a better direction and are feasible — but rather to break out of the incrementalist rut and stagnant vision that the Web finds itself mired in. It's not in a ...| Robin Berjon
