Comment by iostream23

The parts about accessibility, data portability, and alternative interfaces are very relevant: protocols instead of software, open standards.

Remember the various messenger clients and then stuff like Trillian Pigeon etc?

The federated stuff as well as web rings, remember those?

Remember life before Google?

Organic discovery of links is often quite ideologically and teleologically relevant, in terms of the people and minds that connect.

It’s somewhat ironic that web forums such as HN are actually how we discover human filtered links.