Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Gonn take my first sick day in years. :x Just letting my lil flesh suit recover from whatever its fighting.

Now that I got around to trying out the Andrioud Studio emulator on my Steam Deck I'm gonna start replacing my usage of android apps within it in order to replace my phone entirely.

Few things are as decadent as bringing my keyboard into bed and putting my phone on an arm thingie above my face so I can type stuff while cozy.

It certainly doesn't help to be very visibly not an average person. 😅 I kinda forget that I dress really weird and have weird ways of speaking about stuff.

I'm generally only around folks that love me for who I am, and reality is not as aligned with these views.

Dang, hpnestly didn't realize how isolated and cooped up I've been lately. It's pretty much just been work related or very few close friends. I used to go to meetups and see random people more often. Feels like I forgot how to socialize during lockdown

on a side note I should make a bot that unrolls threads I make into a post on my blog 🤔

I think one thing that would be crucial on top of starting to get new views, would be to normalize the use of Triple Data Fragments on any ActivityPub and SmanticWeb data. Without even the most basic filtering on datasets we stand to have a lot more waste and UX problems . If I need to parse a person's entire history every time I want to view their data, it's just going to be too slow.

If clients could fetch just the "latest" few posts from a standard AP source, we wouldn't need servers so much

So, I think the SemanticWeb vision has probably been around there for years. But what's different now is that we have a bunch of data for folks to be into! If we get even a rudimentary thing that could let you start exploring the different fedi data types and let you bring your account with you to be able to comment whenever you want, we'd already be serving a bunch of folks.

I'm personally that folks too. :P And we could also be making a new foundation for a user-centric web.

And in order to make it easier for people to interact with data, there should be ways to have at least a default or some sets to choose from.

From there people could write their own views and share them with their pals or within moderated communities of view tied to data types.

Like, right now I have no clue what apps forlks are using, but it'd be cool if someone I'm mutuals with got added to my trust graph and I could discover the stuff they think is cool.

This gives space for creativity

For User Configurability, I think that's one thing that makes me the saddest about the state of the web (and apps!). While some hacker types can inject stylesheets and edit the layout at our whim, the average person is basically stuck with all the banner ads and useless shit and inconsistent accessibility.

For me personally, a lot of sites just don't work for my needs and are a constant pain to try to read through. What if instead they used standard ways of presenting their data.

Here's some things that I think would be important to have:
- User configurable views of the data (with color schemes!)
- Registries for data types and community curated lists of views
- Find ways to pull most common data on the web (e.g. reader view parsed html as legacy web page viewer, fediverse data)

Instead of a bunch of adware and megabytes of JavaScript / developers implementing totally random ways of doing things sites can serve "data" directly. Your browser should then take that data and give you some nice way of viewing it or letting you look up ways of viewing it (or buying or whatever for people that want that).

We could already start seeing things like that now with the ActivityPub data being published out there. What if the data itself also had suggestions for "default views".

One thing that we have now semantic-web-wise is a lot of data that random folks care a lot more about (it's their community or special interest!). And this is also coming from folks that were likely using alternative APIs already so they could get the best view of the data for their use case.

Usually this means new apps for specific purposes. But what if we could simplify making those apps and being able to recombine elements between them. In some sort of "user agent" for example.

However! This is also where the SemanticWeb and ActivityPub fit in.
One grossly underuse feature of activitypub is the client-server model and having the option to have access to data using a proper JSON-LD interface.

In other words. What if "fediverse" clients were just "Semantic Data" clients. Instead of relying on a specific app, we could have views over the raw data within a particular community through common (and swappable) interfaces.

Here's how we can get there and why it makes sense

One pain point though is exploring the domain specific way of formatting data while still being able to do all the social stuff. E.g. right now if I want to see a lemmy thread, I need to either see it boosted or navigate a lemmy instance and copy paste a link.

This means having lots of apps and identities, or also jumping between a bunch of websites.

This is where we are with the web and the current state of apps. A bunch of silos and we let them take full control.