Re:“Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data struct...
by simonh on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:35AM
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The open web is still growing. The perception that it's dying is just because proprietary services like Facebook and Twitter have dominated public discourse on the web, but it's still alive and well.
It's not growing as fast as it was, sure, but for example the number of active blogs has grown by 12% in the last 7 years and 4.4 million blog posts are published every day, more than ever before.
Re:“Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data struct...
by kragen on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:57AM
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Thanks, that's reassuring. You mean 4.4 million blog posts that aren't posted only on Facebook and Twitter?
Re:“Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data struct...
by theamk on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:43PM
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Not original author, but probably yes.
This page claims "70 million posts from wordpress users", which comes out to 2.3 million per day. And there are many more other blogging platforms out there.
https://letter.ly/how-many-blog-posts-are-published-per-day/
If you are interested in non-Facebook/Twitter I recommend getting an RSS client first. Then as you read Hacker News, add the feeds of the interesting authors to your reader -- many front-page articles have RSS links somewhere. You'll have nice, non-FB reading list in no time.
While I don't like that, I don't really see how some kind of pay-infrastructure is avoidable in the long run.
The way the Internet solved that by being owned in large part by a handful of mega cooperations, being full of ads and spam and turning the user into a product is not what I'd call a good solution either.
The fully open and free web is not sustainable, as we have seen by it dying out over the last 20 years. And the open web isn't even all that great to begin with, given that link rot is still an unsolved and extremely common problem.