Continuing on the theme of 'how to fix the web' let's talk about the "Fediverse", or any other attempt at distributed social media for that matter.
All federated social protocols have attempted to do everything, from blogging to comments to aggregation and most of it is completely unnecessary.
Why do they do this? They are stuck in thinking that Facebook is how things should be, but that it needs to be disrupted or some other such. They see the problem only in the centralization and ownership of the platform, without looking at the centralization of the features itself.
This, in my opinion, is a fundamental flaw in thinking. One only sees Facebook and can not imagine how things would work without it. Despite Newspapers, Academic Journals, and Magazines having solved this problem (better) hundreds of years ago.
Most people have nothing of merit to write about, myself included. An increasing number of technical articles and blogs are self-promotion, or light content designed to 'engage' and market. I've worked at multiple companies who treat their engineering blog as a marketing tool rather than something meaningful and rarely find blogs that post good stuff (although a few still exist).
Bottom line, if I am interested in consuming high quality content, written by people of merit I will seek it out. It does not need to be 'fed' to me.
It's email, it's always been email. "Spammers have won" you'll say, we need to create a new protocol/system/company that they haven't figured out how to game yet. No! We need to make better spam filters.
USENET was killed because of spammers, but now there are (almost) no spammers left. USENET is still there, waiting to be reclaimed if people wanted to.
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