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Well then I guess we must sniff butts

Yeah! Here we’re not tech brothers, we’re tech gender neutral siblings, or even tech sisters

right. it was the corporate centralization and profit motives. that was the main focus of my ire. but how the corpos captured the net was by investing in lowering the bar of interactive participation. it’s great that more people got to participate, it’s not great that it came at the cost of participation benefitting corporations, not participants

web 2.0 was the generation of web technologies defined by a lower barrier to entry for web posting thanks to centralized platforms provided by for profit corporations. think facebook, reddit, twitter, youtube

it’s still frustrating how much is being lost though from our collective knowledge, especially with the dismantling of the internet archive. web 2.0 was definitively a mistake, and it’s one that almost everyone fell for