--- tags: draft, web --- # The Composable Web :::info This is a very early draft, I am just capturing notes as I go along. It is barely coherent and not ready to review. Proceed at your own risk. ::: The Web as it exists today composes *very* poorly. To some degree, `iframe`s have become better, but in general bringing in content from another source can have extensive side-effects and is on the whole unpredictable. This is noticeable through multiple failure modes: * **Third-party tracking and privacy loss**. Almost every external embed that you can make on the web will be a privacy threat. In some cases this is intended by the site (but not the user), in others the site might not intend it (but it happens anyway). Removing all interactions with other content cripples the Web, however. * ad threats. * RSS & aggregation * CORS * same content * content is available * dumb and constrained social feeds * PDF <!-- Full idea write up, including existing implementation parts (Capyloon, Noosphere), issues (scaling mutable data and how to handle that), strategy (using the fedi moment to issue an MVP), etc. --> ## Misc Notes ![](https://i.imgur.com/aUl8o61.jpg)