Gregory's ServerThe web is 100% decentralized by design. The fact that 99% of users may only visit 5 "sites" is a social occurrence not a technical one. In fact with things like CDN they are visiting hundreds of sites to fetch content..they just don't know it
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@tomw a debate that has beem going on close to the time the web first existed (perhaps before it) we never called it "corporate social" though we called it "commercialization". People using the internet not as a model for global communication and the sharing of ideas but as a marketing tool to promote oneself and ones brand.  @geekwisdom True but I would make a distinction between a commercial site describing or even directly selling products – which is at least still on the web – and services that create closed systems walled off from the web Yes a good point. In the early days of RFCs everything was open anyone could follow the protocol amd write a client. Today you have to reverse engineer just to figured out how the dang thing evem works..and in many cases even trying to do that is "illegal" |
@geekwisdom You are correct in a technical sense – in a lot of ways, especially given that they are mostly used via their own apps and behind login walls, it makes more sense to look at corporate social media as an opponent of "the web" not as part of it