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I really liked reading the essays and tried subscribing. But of course your website doesn't have a feed.

There are feed generator plugins for Metalsmith, for RSS and Atom, if you sometimes are in a mood to fiddle.

https://prism-break.org/en/ is a large list of alternative free and open-source software that respects users' privacy and promotes decentralization. (No affiliation with the project).

Hi Parimal,

Thanks for writing your article! Regarding improving the web, have you heard about efforts around the term "web3"?

Basically using P2P technology to decentralize the web?

Technologies like Blockchains(Ethereum,polkadot) and Distributed Storage (IPFS,filecoin) are some the building blocks. There are many many ( decentralized efforts) but most of them cooperate in some way.

You referenced Tim Berners Lee, did you know that he is now helpng the decentralization effort ( web3)
http://www.decentralizedweb.net/

I think these P2P Technologies can provide great value in realizing the decentralized (web3) vision.

What do you think?
Update your article?
Write another one on the potential of these?

https://www.openstreetmap.org/ is built by people and based on open data; the map belongs to everyone and not to a particular commercial organization.

Hi, and first of all many thanks for your great article, I cannot agree more with what you say.

In your article, you recommend "Consider not putting share buttons everywhere", and while I agree default ones are bad, there is a "hidden" solution: Using the old school, non-javascript based sharing functionalities that many social networks have.

I wrote a post about it a few years ago and have been keeping it up to date (except Google +1 which I don't use), but basically you can just have an hyperlink or button that links to the "web share", e.g.:
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=YYYYY

That way you don't use any external javascript, tracking is way less aggressive (they probably track the referer but not until you click the button) so it is more privacy-aware and faster regarding page load speed.

You might want to provide that alternative at your article, I don't care if linking to my post, copying and pasting the JS-less examples or just briefly mentioning the option. Or just leave it as awesome as it is right now.

Thanks and let's hope articles like yours change people mindsets and we regain some of our old, open web.