largely_sitting

Finally.

I would be fine with far less features for a platform that was simpler and standardized. Users seem to be gravitating toward the same, with short form video and a search bar being their main anchors. A reflection on complexity versus free would be nice to see. The more complex a system is, the less free it becomes by virtue of implementation time.

Its the data centers that are going to be responsible for end of web2, when they figure out they can undercut web2 and offer a continuous federated open data storage system and virtual machine. Advertisers will pay them for access directly. Google, Meta, would just be third party indexing services.

Corporate interest in the internet is going to shrink when people stop wanting data silos, and instead want open data storage with some programmable layer on top and nothing else. Corporate interest is high now only because of the exploitable future, but when it's found that the future is a bunch of open generic data tables and virtual machine on top, it's going to have a hard time competing with that. If Facebook, Google, and Amazon were all forced to use an open data storage system to house all their user data or become obsolete they would quickly become obsolete because advertisers would access it directly instead of paying them.

All of these systems are pay-to-play systems, and just like pay-to-play games favor whales and their large wallets. Proof-of-work just means more bots hard at work. Voting systems will botted. Swarm investments will seem like democracy to the average user, but all orchestrated from a single source.

Identity can always be botted and forged.