Who are we kidding. With those as our choices, it's no wonder most people just use the face book.
Hyper scale businesses captured most of the internet's value and humans and turned tech into a series of walled gardens for eyeball attention doom scroll maximization. Retweeting the for you page is what some committee of product managers decided was best for us all. Who are we to question the architectures of power?
It almost sounds like a perverse weird utopia to imagine a world where we controlled all of the information flows ourselves. I can't think why we should have all the power.
the internet has become more accessible both to consumers and people trying to sell a product. it has become crowded in "the market" you refer to. but all the good things all still there, and are doing much better than they were. i still use all of those protocols and a bunch of newer ones.
Without layout or programming (functionality)...is that not just json??
And if you consider "structure" to be "layout"...then...a txt file?
Unf I don't see the point here. You're basically just describing an api endpoint and a custom client.