I miss the old Internet and have looked for pieces of it online. I can't speak to the political motivations of Substack but something changed around 2014 and the Internet largely gave into capitalism.
There was a time prior to that when it wasn't so rampant. I would give back the conveniences that have come along with the technological advancements since 2014 in exchange for the simpler and more magical version prior.
It makes me wonder, if vested capital interests strategically squash grassroots communities and products which threaten their place of power and control. I always just chalked it up to "poor UX" and "decentralization is too hard for normies to understand". But maybe there's more...
I miss the old Internet and have looked for pieces of it online. I can't speak to the political motivations of Substack but something changed around 2014 and the Internet largely gave into capitalism.
There was a time prior to that when it wasn't so rampant. I would give back the conveniences that have come along with the technological advancements since 2014 in exchange for the simpler and more magical version prior.
It makes me wonder, if vested capital interests strategically squash grassroots communities and products which threaten their place of power and control. I always just chalked it up to "poor UX" and "decentralization is too hard for normies to understand". But maybe there's more...