The Metaweb Simply Put
The next generation of the web in layman terms
The Limitations of Today's Web
The web could be a tool that enables humanity to address its existential threats but for three primary limitations. First, the web has no accountability because it is so easy to make throwaway accounts. Online accounts rarely require any connection to an actual identity. Second, people cannot see others on web pages. You could be on a web page at the same time as hundreds if not thousands of others, but would never meet them. Third, people can only interact with web page content if the author of the web page enables the interactions. The most common interactions are to select a reaction icon and/or make a comment on a post. These limitations prevent people from meeting others with common interests and limit expression, conversation about, and interaction with content. Together, they prevent the level of connection, communication, and coordination necessary to address global challenges.
What We are Building
Bridgit DAO aims to increase meaningful collaboration on the web through browser-based applications that enable communities to meet and interact on top of web pages. First, to the extent possible, participants have only one primary account, which they own and control. Without the option of throwaway accounts, participants are accountable for their interactions within online communities. Second, we offer participants a visual presence on web pages. On any specific page, a participant can choose to be visible. Visible participants can see others that are visible at the same time on the same page. One's visibility can be specific to an online community. Third, participants can attach information and interactions to pieces of content (e.g., a piece of text, image, or video) that are visible to people within the same community. Examples of information to attach are notes, links between specific pieces of content with a relationship (e.g., supporting, contradicting), and placement on a list. Examples of interactions to attach are conversations, polls, and lists. Developers can build mini-applications that attach whatever information and interactions communities want.
What’s Different about this Approach
In this approach, 1) everyone you encounter is a real person in good standing, 2) people can view others who are visible on web pages of their common interest, and 3) the web page author no longer constrains the experience on their web pages. Our browser-based applications accomplish this by displaying related information and interactions (that have nothing to do with the web page author) above the web page content. This includes a list of visible people on the web page as well as "read more" indicators for information and interactions that display next to related content. Because these applications expand how we use the web and we want people to talk about it, we gave it a name — the Metaweb. Simply put, the Metaweb is the unused space above the web page for information and interactions related to content on web pages. The Metaweb will enable people to think, learn, and build knowledge together at scale for the first time.
I agree with your basis idea of being able to exchange information about websites (but rather about the companies and in particular the products and services offered or the topics covered).
But while the current web is mainly a way to convey pre-formatted visualisations from a particular vendor to the ears and eyeballs of its audience, the Metaweb will be based on data exchanges, where users can construct their own preferred environments, e.g. a personalized shopping mall with a joint visualization of the 10 shoe-shops (or just a selection shoes showing up on their own feet) that the users agent have distilled from millions of discovered data sources relevant to the users intent.
These data sources may also include comments from people having previously bought or rejected the same or similar products. Or people simultaneously querying the same data sources.
So I would suggest to abstract your interaction model, so that it is not necessarily linked to a particular website/data-source, but rather to (classes of) products, services, and topics that people may share interest in.
As regards identity for persons there is a need to make it transaction based, where only the individual person is able to prove the correlation between these transactional identities when relevant, e.g. to enter relationships with other persons or with businesses. Otherwise we will not be able to share all this data freely rather than having to go through bigtech with all the privacy and cost implications they bring to the table.
The idea of people only having one primary?! account will prove disastrous for the exchange of demand and supply data in commercial ecosystems and to people effectively being deprived of their freedom of expression if they do not want to be tracked and stalked across all the various commercial and non-commercial contexts they participate in. There are various options in between the two extremes of anonymity and single account/identity, e.g. by means of reputation related claims, delegation, and conditional blinding.
I suggest that we engage others in a real-life scenario dealing with one of the most significant period of time in history: The publication of The Digital Currency Manifesto ::: https://www.virtualorganization.net/2021/07/the-digital-currency-manifesto.html :: Being able to provide input on a specific groundbreaking document makes a great deal of sense. Think of this manifesto as the equivalent of The Constitution of the United States for the digital currency world.