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Robin Berjon
Personal blog · berjon.com · on HN as robin-berjonwebphilosophy
Robin Berjon's personal blog at berjon.com covers web and philosophy. Since 2014, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “ActivityPub over ATProto (2023)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Robin Berjon’s Blog
Most-linked posts?
- ActivityPub over ATProto (2023)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-12-25
- Fixing Search4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-09-16
- Web 2024: Where will we be in ten years from now?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-03
- Ethicswishing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-16
- Privacy as Product2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-08
- The Public Interest Internet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-18
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-29
- The Web Is for User Agency2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-17
- The Internet Transition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-18
What Hacker News says?
Maybe if you've time for a long but very interesting read have a look at this [0]. R. Berjon gives a good explanation of why the internet (and we mean IP routing, DNS, BGP and ISP governance etc) is far from a level system and what needs to be done to restore it to public service as a global tool for the good of humanity. [0] https://berjon.com/public-interest-internet/
Comment linking /public-interest-internet/
on “Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated”Submitted The Public Interest Internet as a story · 113 points
HN discussionOK, it's not quite the same but last week Robin Berjon wrote "Web 2024" which spoke as if from the future and he said: "This is 2024. In terms of the ecosystem, not only do all browsers have large chunks implemented in JavaScript but at some point someone started a pure-JS browser from scratch. It was initially meant as a joke, but this 'Inception' browser caught the fancy of the ever-resourceful JS community and qu…
Comment linking /web-2024/
on “Show HN: Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js”Submitted ActivityPub over ATProto (2023) as a story · 33 points
HN discussionWhat might be useful for the re-decentralized web community is a detailed comparison of the ATProto, ActivityStreams/Pub and maybe Solid specifications, protocols, standards, vocabularies (or whatever exactly these blueprints actually are). As the blog post illustrates quite nicely (literally), ATProto is a fairly complete, bottom-up type specification that makes concrete various server/database aspects that in the…
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on “ATProto for distributed system engineers”Submitted Fascintern Media as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI first heard about this in an former coworker's (Robin Berjon) talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s878bm15mrk at an IPFS conference Fascinating He writes about these things on this blog as well( https://berjon.com/ethicswishing/ ), and has a forthcoming book on related topics last I heard
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on “The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s”Submitted ActivityPub over ATProto as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe author defers a lot to their "fixing search" article[0] for arguments and numbers. That article wrongly assumes that search (and the other problems mentioned, like social) is simple to rebuild to avoid misaligned incentives by relegating it to "just" an API. A search company would still have to implement crawling, recrawling (efficiently, timely for topical events), spam filtering, ranking without being game-abl…
Comment linking /fixing-search/
on “You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser”Submitted ActivityPub over ATProto as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWhat he's actually proposing are Web Tiles[1], which he explains in the next article in this series. Basically a move from web pages as Internet-connected applications to being locally-cached reusable components that compose into workflows. 1: https://berjon.com/web-tiles/
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on “You're Gonna Need a Bigger Browser”Submitted Those Who Can't Be Named as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted ActivityPub over ATProto as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing Search as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Retrofuturism: On the Internet, we are always living in the past as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web 2024: Where will we be in ten years from now? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Please Bring Me More Of That Yummy DRM Discussion as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Web Is for User Agency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the Next Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Privacy as Product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stewardship of Ourselves as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Privacy: A Quick Reality Check as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web 2024: Waiting for the singularity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is HTML Too Big To Fail? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You have my democracy sword: Media Media as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Retweeting Class as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Missing Manual: Digital Sovereignty as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ethicswishing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing Search as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web 2024 (2014) as a story · 1 points
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