The web used to belong somewhere

There are a couple of related ideas I found myself writing about here and there, either on the IRC server or on Quxnet. Ideas and thoughts about what the web used to be, how it used to feel, about how things have changed, and what can be done to bring at least some of the old web back. We often point fingers at the big social media platforms, with their relentless algorithmic curation as the cause for the awfulness of the modern web. Maybe we blame the SEO folks, or the influencers. There’s a multitude of different characters who each played their role in turning the “old web” into “today’s web”. And I’m not going to pretend they didn’t play a role, because they did. What I am going to argue for, though, is that there’s something else that has contributed a lot more to the changes that we’ve seen over the past few decades, and that’s the fact that the web used to belong somewhere. And I mean that in the physical sense. I’m not the first one to say this; you can find plenty of other…

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