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Back when everything was a new idea such things would have been obvious. Now we act more like everything is set in stone.

I don't like markdown or wikicode but browsers accepting a document format (any format) that is just a static document would be great.

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The sort of stagnation we are seeing is IMO caused by the fact that being original and subversive involved finding new 'places' to try out new ideas, where the community is small and more amenable to trying random things out to see what happens.

Systems like Mastodon and IPFS should be trying out new structures and new protocols. In particular IPFS, because it's content without a server.

Have to agree there. But the purpose is HTML, PDF is a historical artifact (or list your reason why that should make sense and not this...), blah blah. People can come up with some very interesting ideas about why something unnatural is great (WASM and the nutty ideas some have about that) and why something like supporting an extremely popular static doc format is "out there".

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