The Greed of Twitter And Reddit Is Rolling Back The Internet To The 2000s, And That’s Good

Recent changes in Reddit and new paywalls on Twitter are convincing users to abandon them and find alternative platforms, but well, despite the efforts and hype, there are no solid alternatives to any of them, resulting in users splitting between different platforms.

Federative platforms may or may not take over the online world, but for now, the result is the slow but growing process of migrations to other platforms, and this might actually be good.

With platforms closing their doors to search engines and committing the biggest crime against the Internet in recent years, this process of moving to new platforms can roll back the whole Internet to what it was in the 2000s, a more decentralized space.

Federation is not the only way for decentralization; actually, the Internet was a decentralized space back in the day—different forums, different IM services and IRC servers, etc. You might raise a valid point here, That an average user can’t and won’t quit the comfort of a big platform and move to a significantly more difficult platform.

That’s right, and that’s why the migration process is slow, but the advanced and technical users were the first ones to make the Internet their home and slowly open the way for the others, and that might be the case, again.

Federated or not, I think it’s good to have the Internet in its old shape, where powerful and centralized platforms can’t abuse their power to damage the free flow of information. Of course, they are not the only powerful players on the Internet who can form our online world but remember; it’s a process…