> In the physical world there are countless spaces that exist as an open ended resource that people can use in a myriad of ways to enhance their lives and commu

> In the physical world there are countless spaces that exist as an open ended resource that people can use in a myriad of ways to enhance their lives and community. Things like city parks, libraries, national parks, blm land, lakes, etc. Places that will likely exist for decades or centuries. But there is almost none of that online. Most things are run by profit maximizing corporations that only look at the world through that one lens. And even these need constant upkeep to preserve from the paperclip maximizers we've put in the heart of our economic system. Some of what makes the web so ephemeral is the need to constantly maintain it, even if that maintenance is low, and it's so convenient to just stop that maintenance. I do imagine we'll eventually figure it out -- on the scale of things, we haven't been _doing_ the web for all that long -- but I bet the places that last will start out as long-term concerns with an ethos not unlike a library, an ethos much, much different than you'll find at any place trying to maximize paperclips in a finite world. Wikipedia seems like a lasting public good, Internet Archive (knock on wood) as well.