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< Death of the Internet (or not?)
the big issue i find, and the reason people feel its dying or dead, is because of monopalization, but good news there has been a boom from what i've seen in demonopolization of the internet! many people hosting their own sites with things like neocities (which there is still an argument to be had there about if that's actually distributed web or not), people moving to FOSS alterntives such as the fediverse! capitalism killed the internet, but capitalism is not eternal and will eat itself, eventually we will be free of it again and it is slowly becoming so!
Honestly capitalism (and academic pursuit) drove so much of the Internet yet it also led us to where we are. I hope we can get to a point where people are actively using the fediverse but it seems like there is a lot of resistance since they’re not gratifying as other social media platforms.