Fuck this pretentious shit. From the looks of it, the author is the part of the problem (i.e. in their own term: the author is killing the open web along with others).
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026
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Read this entire post with the understanding that this guy is a crypto bro who created a "smart billing" platform.
So when he says
The healthier model may require paying for things that used to appear free.
It makes me wonder what his payment solution actually looks like.
So... it is dying?
This is obviously a reference to headlines using passive language when it comes to direct actions. So yes, it is dying, but not in some nebulous way.
The issue that seems insurmountable to me is that convenience will always be the path of least resistance to the great majority of users because they DO treat web usage as consumption, because they themselves are economic units that have been trained in their economic conditions to be consumers.
To 90% of users instagram might as well be magic. The tech doesn’t matter. Authentication, identity, security, these things are MEANINGLESS to the average user. They see security as something that’s burdensome and forced upon them my their IT department, and that actually materially affects their real lives in a big way. Open internet? They couldn’t be bothered.
Until open web or fediverse or whatever can be as absolutely frictionless as signing up for instagram, they won’t use it. They already have complicated lives, they aren’t going to give a fuck about “stewardship” of the web.