Agreed. Web 2.0 was also supposed to be democratizing. Blogging, user participation. A web the dissolves the user/webmaster dichotomy. Less gatekeepers, barrie

Agreed. Web 2.0 was also supposed to be democratizing. Blogging, user participation. A web the dissolves the user/webmaster dichotomy. Less gatekeepers, barriers to entry, etc. Walled gardens, gatekeepers, centralization and monopoly hardening happened. They were never the stated ideal. Just like web 2.0, web 3.0's idealistic description tends to to be the opposite of whatever 2.0's shortcomings are. Just like with 2.0, reality is likely to have its own say.