The original usability win of the web was that anyone could put up some text with pictures and links and anyone else could see it. It was proto-Facebook. I thin

The original usability win of the web was that anyone could put up some text with pictures and links and anyone else could see it. It was proto-Facebook. I think of the evolution of the web as a sequence of technologically trivial but socially innovative changes in format: from static pages to timestamped blog posts, aggregating multiple blogs in a feed, allowing comments and so on. That's the vision laid out in Clay Shirky's writings about social software, as true today as ever before. And unlike the "semantic web", that vision naturally leads to a wealth of semantic information (like friend graphs) which is tremendously useful. Hopefully that explains why "API primitives exposed to webassembly" feels to me like thinking about the web from the wrong end. The social end is what makes the web tick. It could be built with tinkertoys for all I care.