Eternal Whatever – History or Stories?

I’m thinking about trying to cohere my endless ranting about why social media (and the larger internet) is such a mess because of platforms, and trying to get at the meat of what, especially millennials/gen-x are talking about when they say they miss “The old internet”

I just kind of want to establish a sense of how platform capitalism in the ‘web 2.0’ era is the real driving force here, and I’m pondering different ways to tell this story to someone without any background in it. So I think I have two main options, or I go somewhere in between?

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W3b.0 is trash, but so is Web 2.0

Or, How do you think you can stop the apocalyptic future of a capitalized internet driven by crypto, when we’re already caught in the jaws of the social-media platform driven one?

I don’t like contempt culture; I’ve become bored with the idea of sneering at things that offend some aesthetic sensibility of mine for the sake of appealing to others, or for perpetuating myths about a dis-preferred tool. I really only have time to be mad about things that matter these days, and so it takes me awhile to settle in and accept that something is harmful enough that I should bother being mad and outspoken about it.

And holy shit is this web 3.0 nonsense worthy of that scorn.

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