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It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0
(discuss.tchncs.de)
Invasive tracking and pay-for-play search engines has broken the internet. It’s time to reclaim our independence with the Small Web.
You're not wrong.
The biggest caveat I'd have is that social media with a friction point is still bad. The negative effects of the whole thing are fundamental to the types of interactions it fosters. Even purely direct messaging applications can and will generate a lot of the same results.
And I would even argue there was no Web 1.0. Back in the webring days I was already in IRC and Usenet was a thing. The only reason it seems healthier from a distance is that fewer people were doing it. Get back to that tech with the same user counts we have now and you have the exact same thing. Just with more ASCII art and fewer AI filters, I guess.