I certainly approve. I especially like that they actually included the words “DIY ethos” in their spiel. The need to resuscitate that in particular is very, very key, a point seemingly missed by the many projects focusing on things like federation or (gag me) “free speech.” Note that the present comment is from a quick reading of the linked page, and so far I’ve only read the four-point bulleted list. Going full plaintext is cute. I don’t know how necessary it is. As is pointed out, it definitively eliminates tracking, which is both simple and elegant. I do believe, however, that “hypertext” (most essentially defined as text containing links) is one of those technologies that actually helps liberate knowledge, but that’s assuming the lines of communication aren’t already clogged with linkspam. Everything in the early web having to do with hacking was published as plaintext, even though HTML was an option. They had their reasons. I’m not sure I understand the need for a new request architecture (and a new protocol?) for this network of plaintext content. Certainly ‘text/plain’ is still one of the MIME types supported by HTTP(S)://.