{"id":1872,"date":"2023-12-09T17:14:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T01:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2023-12-09T17:16:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T01:16:25","slug":"demise-of-the-open-web-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/demise-of-the-open-web-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"demise of the open web, yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More handwringing over how the web has gotten worse. There have always been lots of The Web is Dead articles \u2013 here’s one from 2010!<\/a>, but Denny Vrande\u010di\u0107 mentioned more recent ones in a great Facebook post<\/a>, including Why the Internet Isn\u2019t Fun Anymore<\/a>, Cory Doctorow’s The \u2018<\/a>Enshittification<\/a>\u2019 of TikTok<\/a>, Fixing Search<\/a>, Google has sent internet into \u2018spiral of decline\u2019, claims DeepMind co-founder<\/a>, The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web<\/a>, …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If only publishing thoughts and images to your own web site had gotten as easy and good-looking before posting to social media sites took over; and Google had stuck with RSS readers and the iGoogle home page; and a federated identity program like Mozilla Persona had taken off (instead of having to create a login to each site); and search engines did a better job of indexing trackbacks\/backlinks\/pingbacks; and an easy way to identify your public and private posts (restricted to a particular group) had been established. Then Denny would have written this on his blog, I would have seen it on my iGoogle home page or feed, I would have replied on his site or written a follow-up post on my site (I did, this one, but Facebook will never acknowledge it), and search engines would notice and promote the interlinking because that’s the very essence of A WEB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I kept hoping it would happen, I kept hoping ISPs would offer basic web hosting instead of leaving it up to commercial ad-supported sites, I hoped that when Google+ (circles!) failed, Google would have fallen back to heavily promoting the open web to fight the rise of Facebook, then Snapchat, then Instagram, then TikTok, …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coulda, shoulda, woulda. Thanks to anyone who still comes to personal web sites like this one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More handwringing over how the web has gotten worse. There have always been lots of The Web is Dead articles \u2013 here’s one from 2010!, but Denny Vrande\u010di\u0107 mentioned more recent ones in a great Facebook post, including Why the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}