Initial Musing on Robin Sloan’s Spring ‘83 Protocol Idea

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My gut instinct with protocols is as Everest Pipkin’s

i believe profoundly in a fucked up hand-made stolen-html-blocks hotlinked-images internet and so I’m a little suspicious of projects that attempt to fix things lower down. That’s why I like webmentions (and, when I’m not cursing my angle bracket keys, microformats); they’re bolted onto the side of something that already exists13. This is antithetical to the spirit of “what if we could build the thing from scratch”– but importantly, it never manages to get you the guarantees that the existing stuff can’t offer. For example, I’m bearish on Gemini, but they’re absolutely right to note: (View Highlight)
My gut instinct with protocols is as Everest Pipkin’s

i believe profoundly in a fucked up hand-made stolen-html-blocks hotlinked-images internet (View Highlight)

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My gut instinct with protocols is as Everest Pipkin’s

i believe profoundly in a fucked up hand-made stolen-html-blocks hotlinked-images internet and so I’m a little suspicious of projects that attempt to fix things lower down. That’s why I like webmentions (and, when I’m not cursing my angle bracket keys, microformats); they’re bolted onto the side of something that already exists13. This is antithetical to the spirit of “what if we could build the thing from scratch”– but importantly, it never manages to get you the guarantees that the existing stuff can’t offer. For example, I’m bearish on Gemini, but they’re absolutely right to note: (View Highlight)
My gut instinct with protocols is as Everest Pipkin’s

i believe profoundly in a fucked up hand-made stolen-html-blocks hotlinked-images internet (View Highlight)