"With any luck twitter/reddit/facebook/et al. will disappear in favour of their "corresponding wikipedias" --- which is the model, I think, all the "platform creators" thought they were participating in."
This is a fantasy. All the money (and thus features and users) has been flowing in to ever more consolidated, corporate-controlled platforms for decades.
There's no serious alternative, as all the decentralized platforms lack the network effects of the big players.
If anything, the future is going to be ever more centralized and consolidated.
This is a fantasy. All the money (and thus features and users) has been flowing in to ever more consolidated, corporate-controlled platforms for decades.
There's no serious alternative, as all the decentralized platforms lack the network effects of the big players.
If anything, the future is going to be ever more centralized and consolidated.
The old, wild and free internet is gone for good.