Protocols are important in a network. Yet they put the network in a gridlock so nodes could not evolve independently;
Protocols are NOT as important as you might think in a computer because apps are agnostic to what protocols are running underneath.
What’s important is that all users of a computer have an unique 🆔, a private data vault. They can communicate with each other and share data at their own discretion.
In other words, the real issue is about turning the #Web3 into a decentralized World Computer.
See Elastos.
For any computer, there’s an operating system (OS). A World Computer is no exception.
If both users (or nodes) speak English (TCP/IP or #Nostr or #ActivityPub), they can communicate with English. It’s called protocol negotiation which is conducted by none other than the OS.
It’s important to replace HTTP/HTTPS with a decentralized #Web3 protocol, eg, #Nostr or #ActivityPub.
It’s more critical to create a #Web3 OS, eg, #Elastos, to hide all protocols all together, so that the #Web can evolve continuously.
A counterexample is TCP/IP which got stuck.
All users and apps must trust the OS of an ecosystem, much like a religion.
If you don’t believe in Windows, go to the MacOS.
The problem for the #Web is that there’s only one World-Wide-Web for all of us.
OS is sometimes referred as the God Protocol.
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