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Your closing sentence made me realize that there are "social contracts" on the Internet, and we're suddenly in a new regime. Our notions of how to operate (and
by disqard 4y ago
Your closing sentence made me realize that there are "social contracts" on the Internet, and we're suddenly in a new regime. Our notions of how to operate (and how to monetize) will have to recalibrate to this drastically altered milieu.
- dahwolf 4y agoI think the situation was already dire for the open web. Most people are on social networks and consume content there directly or snippets/screenshots of open web content. Engagement on individual websites has been tanking for over a decade, it's truly starving, a few exceptions aside. The open web might as well cease to exist mostly, which might be compensated for with private spaces. That trend was already ongoing.