Actually, it worked, Web 1.0 totally disrupted AOL, CompuServe, MSN etc. until the companies which built on top of the open Web didn't give away their software.

Actually, it worked, Web 1.0 totally disrupted AOL, CompuServe, MSN etc. until the companies which built on top of the open Web didn't give away their software. These "Web 2.0" companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. just had all your data. We live in a digital feudalism now. And every few years (e.g. when Musk bought Twitter) there is renewed interest in open source alternatives. We can fix this, if the open source community ever achieves parity with the features that most Web 2.0 social platforms provide: https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/ https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/