We are witnessing the natural end stage of the corporate internet.

We gifted this place to the world at large, because it was a nice place for us, and we hoped it would be useful and we liked to build it. The wider world made the mistake of thinking they owned it now, and could tell us what to do with it and what it was for. But the original gift still exists. The enfuckened version that people tried to “improve” it into is just shedding and crumbling, as a reptile’s skin falls away still in the shape of the original living thing.

I’m wondering if the “small web” will start to take over. I already feel like signal chats are starting to replace social media for me. Maybe soon we’ll be torrenting old copies of Wikipedia off hidden sites and only sharing our thoughts on privately hosted and shared Gemini capsule blogs? We’ll have to bring back key-signing parties and friends-of-friends networking.

So long, and thanks for all the memes

What’s “reddit”?

Source: Unix Surrealism