# Technologies, protocols and standards for a better future Web

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**Category:** Humane design\
**Created:** [June 27, 2018, 7:53am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/technologies-protocols-and-standards-for-a-better-future-web/2408 "2018-06-27T07:53:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/technologies-protocols-and-standards-for-a-better-future-web/2408/11 "2018-06-27T15:22:36Z")

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> [@aschrijver](#):
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> More specifically the project [Solid](https://solid.mit.edu/), led by Tim Berners-Lee, is quite interesting. It is based on [latest W3C standards](https://github.com/solid/solid#standards-used)… an ongoing application research and evaluation of the next-gen web.
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> Interesting new developments regarding decentralized social media standards are [ActivityStreams](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core) and [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/), both based on Linked Data (JSON-LD). And in parallel the W3C develops other social media standards.
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> With regards to privacy [Decentralized Identifiers (DID)](https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/) are interesting. See also this PDF on [Combining ActivityPub with DID](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/final-documents/activitypub-decentralized-distributed.pdf).
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> PS. I really liked [DatProject.org](http://DatProject.org) before (but going their own way… the cool [Beaker](https://beakerbrowser.com/) is based on them, though), and [IPFS.io](http://IPFS.io) looks promising too (the non-blockchain part)

Thank you very much! I will have to learn more about these very exciting projects.

The idea I was thinking about is very similar to Tim Berners-Lee’s [Solid](https://solid.mit.edu/) project. While there are many different use cases and solutions for a better future web, I think it makes sense to focus on the areas which are currently most broken. Much of the web works very well! My thoughts were for each user to keep and serve their own information directly to peers, allowing for information to be kept private, information to be ported and also modular app design which would allow switching. Here the most obvious use case is social network. It’s all very similar to Solid which I didn’t know about before.

The idea is that ordinary web servers are the best technology for this, any good database on a small machine can perform millions of reads per second and at least 10,000 writes per second. (Compared to 4 total operations per second for the entire worldwide Bitcoin network.) We just need a better way to arrange the web into new standards. I will take a look more at @aschrijver’s links.

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