The death of the web is because most people don't want what you want. They don't mind walled gardens, so long as they are easy to use and have the content and connections that they want to see.
The audience of HN is extremely skewed towards preferring systems that allow tinkering but that's not what the market wants.
The audience of HN is extremely skewed towards preferring systems that allow tinkering but that's not what the market wants.