Re:Why do I care the open web is dying?
by chrisseaton on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:18AM
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That's only a 'loss to the open web' if the open web somehow had an inherent claim to have that page in the first place.
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yeah, "open" implies the freedom to choose to be hosted by a platform like Facebook if you want.
It would be a loss to the open web if, somehow, there were no alternatives but Facebook, but that isn't the case.
It took me a second on Google to find bike shops local to me that have web presences outside of Facebook. They probably have pages on Facebook as well (it would just be good business) but the web isn't a zero-sum game, one doesn't somehow cancel out the other.