Open source has been serving big tech for the past 15 years. Millions of man-hours to build better tools for the cloud overlords. Structure everything to fit th

Open source has been serving big tech for the past 15 years. Millions of man-hours to build better tools for the cloud overlords. Structure everything to fit the needs of amazon and apple, not the little guy who self-hosts a forum. Mozilla was abandoned. There is no open-source mobile phone. The web became a bad fascimile of mobile app platforms. Google doesn't care to integrate touch-interfaces and functionality in the browser. Academia jumped in the cloud as well. Why do we even need the internet at this point? Google has stored all the content and amazon and cloudflare carry all the traffic. They 'd be far better off with optimized proprietary centralized protocols instead of the distributed mess that is tcp/ip. Maybe that's what the internet needs, competition from another network We also need to be able to pay for little stuff. Remember game arcades? All you needed to play a game was a coin, anonymous, impersonal, not-tracked, easily accessible and effortless to use, and it made them sustainable. Try to ask your users for $1, it's entirely impossible considering the fees and dangers involved. We need anonymous mini transactions like this for the internet. Browsers should implement it, and it can be secured with legal limitations (e.g. your wallet cannot spend more than $200/month on websites).