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 @j12t It means pre-web 2.0 when people were more likely to have their website and reference each other either in posts, web rings, etc and open formats like RSS to genuinely share information. Basically everything was a hustle for money while trying to control every aspect of a user's experience even if that means providing a worse experience to squeeze out a few more clicks. 2 comments
@j12t I would not say it's dead. It feels like it's going that way but it's not there yet. Examples of worse would be: Linkedin turning the network section into yet another area to promote things out of your network. Seeing your connections is now an extra click for not logic reason. News sites making reading nearly impossible with ads and videos and things popping into view. They can claim someone watch the video because it ran in someone's browser even if its impact was negative. |
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@fds So in your view, the "open web" is long dead and it's better that it is?
"Worse experience" compared to what?
(I don't understand the "hustle for money" part. In that era, how did anybody make money with their sites? Ads were very rare and paid subscriptions unheard of as I recall...)