As someone who avoided the Twitter firehose like the plague, I've noticed the slow, then rapid decline of traditional 'websites' over the past decade as they su

As someone who avoided the Twitter firehose like the plague, I've noticed the slow, then rapid decline of traditional 'websites' over the past decade as they succumbed to SEO keyword optimization and driving traffic from social networks. . Due to the incentives of the players involved, there is no solution that would lead to a neater, less blogspam-infested internet. The concept of a 'website' as Tim Berners Lee and the early netizens understood it, is commpletely outdated. The second we were able to add an Adsense script or Paypal button or Amazon affiliate link, the fundamental motivation for building websites changed. The artisanal personal websites of yore aren't coming back. People who used to build those have long since moved into less crowded, less commercialized territories where their work might actually be seen. If you don't want to get angry when looking up a recipe online, buy a recipe book. Everything good on the internet is already paywalled anyway.