The decentralized pockets of internet we used to know and love are rapidly disappearing. The new ones that get created are selling out or shutting down. There's

The decentralized pockets of internet we used to know and love are rapidly disappearing. The new ones that get created are selling out or shutting down. There's no society wide impetus for that diversification anymore. We are all going to be locutus of borg whether we like it or not because the money is in building institutions now. The monetization of the web went from services fees to advertising supported to subscription. Those closed off subscription pay walls are going to merge into each other and we're going to end up subscribed to one big cable-like service that becomes an institution upon itself. The web will become an institution like the old library, university and newspaper. Only when everybody is ID'd and institutionalized like Brooks in the Shawshank Redemption will the true value of a decentralized web be realized. People will be aching to get out, to play in the fields again outside the FAANG cage. Have non-polite conversations in secret or hold competitive advantages outside the borg. Signal is the definition of a honeypot from the old days, the thinking around privacy has disappeared people just accept being a database entry on facebook's servers.