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What’s contributing most to the death of the open internet? (europe.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/ask@piefed.social

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It feels like the web is becoming more closed every year — fewer open forums, more platforms locking away data and communities behind logins. What do you think are the biggest forces driving the decline of the open internet? Are walled gardens like Discord the main problem, or is it something else like artificial intelligence, corporate consolidation, surveillance, or changing user habits?

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[–] dfi@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

100% this. The internet before business/corporations understood how it worked was a wonderfully ugly (by today's standards) source of information. It was really possible to get global reach as an individual if you created something interesting. Search engines just indexed at that point, no buying key words to get on the front page. If you made the best "something" out there it would organically find its way to the top of search engines.

I was a firm believer that it was going to change the world giving individuals a chance to get their ideas out to the world, give small businesses global reach. It did change the world just not in the way i had hoped.