I'm honestly shocked by how naive people are about open data/web. If a platform owner together with a community of enthusiasts produces a valuable set of conte

I'm honestly shocked by how naive people are about open data/web. If a platform owner together with a community of enthusiasts produces a valuable set of content/data and then makes it openly available to the world...what exactly do you expect will happen? We've seen what happens during the last 15 years, an era of massive centralization. And now it's AI saying "thanks for everything!". But it doesn't even need to be AI. Allow me to use the free and unlimited Reddit API which apparently allows you to make billions of calls at no charge, and then rehost all that content on an ad farm. This is the real reason the original web3 (semantic web) was dead before it even started and instead of becoming more open, everyone became less open. Because giving away your main assets is suicidal.