Google, facebook, and big data will kill any chance of a standardized linked data format or protocol. Google's main product isn't search, it's you. Facebook doesn't care about messaging or social apps, they care about mining as much data about you as possible. If they had to ask for this data upfront and in a clear way they probably wouldn't exist today.
Well they will kill any big changes, but as tech people, we need to make small changes to start with. I've add LetsEncrypt to all my personal websites. I'm currently working on getting my Masterdon server up. I have a little docker system to self host things.
You could write some scripts to publish your personal block to ZeroNet, and add some "also available on Zeronet" links to the regular HTTP version.
It takes little steps and it has to start with us in the tech community. Even if our distributed tools don't grow, at least we can say we tried.
Currently when faced with regulation they can go with a straight face and say that it's technically not possible to let users own their own data. Google has to control the data it uses so as to operate its business, and privacy is just an unfortunate casualty of that. Projects like this (if successful) demonstrate that you can actually have your cake and eat it too and will (at least potentially) give regulators a lot more a leeway to force the hand of companies.
While it's true that Google and the like benefit from closed or partially closed data ecosystems and formats, as I've pointed out in another comment elsewhere in this thread [0], they've at least been pushing for the development and adoption of linked data formats like JSON-LD and vocabularies like schema.org, and they're using both of those pretty extensively in products like search and Gmail.
It's a far cry from things like Solid's vision of a fully decentralized web of linked data, but at least it's something.
