I beg to differ. The web I participated in through the early to late 00s, most of which came before the web app craze, had a far, far better ratio of creation:c

I beg to differ. The web I participated in through the early to late 00s, most of which came before the web app craze, had a far, far better ratio of creation:consumption. This held true both in meta sense (the web itself) with tens of thousands of individually run sites and blogs instead of a handful of hypercentralized content warehouses, as well as in the proliferation of numerous creative communities and individuals making things. I know because I spent the majority of the 00s on these sorts of sites. Today, all of that’s died almost entirely and no subreddit or facebook group or anything can hold a candle to it. Today, the web is all about endless monetized entertainment streams designed to maintain the attention of as many eyeballs as possible as long as possible. It’s effectively turned into the modern equivalent of network TV.