# Technologies, protocols and standards for a better future Web **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/technologies-protocols-and-standards-for-a-better-future-web/2408/5 "2018-06-26T19:47:45Z")
> [@3 Criteria of Humane Technology](http://community.humanetech.com/t/3-criteria-of-humane-technology/2363/18): > > This is what Ethereum and more broadly [Web3 Foundation](https://web3.foundation/) are trying to do. No, I am sorry, but I would not advise these. The problem with everything blockchain is that it all sounds super… but it really is not, and maybe will never be. I’ll refer you to my [previous post to explain that](http://community.humanetech.com/t/rethinking-how-the-internet-is-monetised/2376/2) and be sure to follow the links to my earlier posts [here](http://community.humanetech.com/t/attention-tokens-is-brave-doing-enough/24/13) and [here](http://community.humanetech.com/t/attention-tokens-is-brave-doing-enough/24/15). With regards to new internet standards I’d like to point to this post: [Towards the Vision of The Decentralized Web!](http://community.humanetech.com/t/towards-the-vision-of-the-decentralized-web/530) 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. The [schema.org](http://schema.org) that you mention, @Free, is just one of many Linked Data ontologies that can be used to make web data more meaningful and self-describing. 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. 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). There is much more, but these are directions I’d be looking at before waging into anything blockchain-related. 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) --- _[View the full topic](https://community.humanetech.com/t/technologies-protocols-and-standards-for-a-better-future-web/2408)._