The 2010s was a period of the internet colonized by platforms, which caused 'enshittification' of web products. Users and developers both suffered, but are fighting back now through the decentralized web.
Sometimes I wonder if we don’t need a reset. An internet more resilient to the issues of the internet of the 20s, such as:
huge pages for kilobytes worth of content
everyone and their dog gets your personal info
advertisement / spam / marketing everywhere
walled gardens and paywalls everywhere
scrapping against consent
I believe that #1 and #2 could be addressed by the popularisation of protocols like Gemini (not to be confused with Google’s LLM). The other three are trickier; you want the ability to kick out uncooperative parties (corporations, advertisers, etc.), without the ability to kick out your typical human user… and that’s like trying to eat the cake and have it too.
Sometimes I wonder if we don’t need a reset. An internet more resilient to the issues of the internet of the 20s, such as:
I believe that #1 and #2 could be addressed by the popularisation of protocols like Gemini (not to be confused with Google’s LLM). The other three are trickier; you want the ability to kick out uncooperative parties (corporations, advertisers, etc.), without the ability to kick out your typical human user… and that’s like trying to eat the cake and have it too.