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> However, I don’t actually see it that way. I would have preferred to fork the Web back in 2007 or so. This is going to sound out of touch, perhaps, but the future of the Web for me, personally, consists of entirely different things. Something like: a place to store my writings/conversations that’s mine and can be organized and designed like I prefer, a good way of finding new people (random little out-of-the-way folks of any stripe), and I don’t want a big feed of random garbage - I want to visit other sites now and then, like I would visit friends IRL - I don’t need everyone in my life everyday.

that's nice but it's not what prints money



The web should be a library, a collective knowledge. F money. We're in the friggin 21st century it should be time to look beyond.


The web already is the biggest, most comprehensive library and store of collective knowledge in human history.

But it shouldn't just be that.


> But it shouldn't just be that.

No, it shouldn't, true, it's also a media and a connectivity platform.

However, in my opinion, the web always should have been strictly non-profit. (Note: non profit means employees are paid properly but the "profit" goes back straight into development, infrastructure, and future proofing). Money involved is only destroying and splitting it.


> The web should be a library, a collective knowledge.

Sounds like an ad for Library Genesis and Sci-Hub. :-)


> that's nice but it's not what prints money

Then it's a self-authenticating firewall / Grail quest.

Search engines found a way to scale and profit from the long tail.




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