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There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (21 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

About s-expressions, what i read about it: https://web.archive.org/web/20120206034439/https://shinkirou.org/blog/2010/06/s-expressions-the-fat-free-alternative-to-json/

Seems rather niche, for non-key-value-pair data structures (aren't no-sql databases good for that?), considering that lightweight markup fulfills that role for readable document source.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Not sure if it counts, but the terminal world being a place where many applications do so many different things but are interoperable, is amazing. I guess that would be the POSIX standard?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is ipfs usage growing? Stagnant? No idea... Diatributed serving of content seems great

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I never really quite understood IPFS and why it gets used where I see it today. What problem is it solving?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The semantic web and social linked data. We could have applications share data without depending on big tech, but rather based on application standards.

It can be used today and gains traction but I wouldn't mind it going faster. Especially the interoperable personal app space could use some love and attention.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Unicode editors for notes/todo formats, making markup unnecessary.

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