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Cut from an essay but worth sharing, this is the list of projects I can recall from memory that has tried to make the internet more open. A lot of people have committed their careers to this. People care!

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Bittorrent getting a bigger caveat than Ethereum is highly questionable even if not dismissing Ethereum out of hand Bittorrent has successfully enabled peer to peer information sharing for decades - files count. Vitalik's desire that Ethereum serve a similar role not the same as actually doing so

@pfrazee.com pulls up old-man chair, groans from back and hip, sits down: - Apache Server - Mozilla (not Firefox, Mozilla, though also Firefox) - EFF's HTTPS Everywhere (which spawned Let's Encrypt; arguably that combo more successful than RSS/Atom) - WhatWG

(And to be clear, this is not a complaint about your list; just to add to your point that the modern web stack is one of the great collaborative efforts in human history - multi-decade, multi-lingual, multI-party, etc etc)

You mentioned nostr, so I'll wait for the comments to turn into a massive wasp nest. And pubsubhubbub doesn't work with youtube anymore :( At least not on new channels

CouchDB brought great ideas such as easy replication between shared and personal databases, including replicated apps, and the ability to host everything offline-first. (Shame desktopcouch did not succeed.) Still trying to wrap my head around atproto. Some ideas seem similar?

atproto is a blend of a lot of them but the full database replication model + json document orientation is *very* couchdb brained

You mentioned that in the talk, yeah. In terms of how the *protocol* works rss/PuSH seems like the best analogy to me, but admittedly I don't have as much knowledge about couchdb's internals—I'm aware of the fundamental model, just never dug into the details.