Enjoyable read. I don't feel like anyone ever addresses the fact that the initial web was modeled after academia, and yet most people were really just looking

Enjoyable read. I don't feel like anyone ever addresses the fact that the initial web was modeled after academia, and yet most people were really just looking for a place to share their identity. The (free) companies stepped in to make the web accessible to them. We're all angry at the broken promise of what the web could be and yet most people I know have shuttered their accounts in the negative nether regions of the internet. Facebook is a ghost town. Twitter was one presidential election from going under. Instagram is thriving because there's little direct communication (or hate communication). And things are starting to happen again for the decentralized web. People are blogging again on their own sites (including ditching medium). Github has been a boon for collaboration and now is starting to help open science. New social media platforms are popping up too (e.g. Mastadon). how will it shake out? no clue... but I do think that it will shake out for the better.