>I'm convinced the death of the web and independent forum communities is largely the fault of Google's lousy search results no longer actually returning real we

>I'm convinced the death of the web and independent forum communities is largely the fault of Google's lousy search results no longer actually returning real web results. You are wrong; Open Web died or almost died because of walled gardens like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Billions of people who hang out on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter would hang out instead on Open Web e.g. websites, blogs, forums etc. if walled gardens didn't exist.