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by bencompanion 2965 days ago
Agreed.

> the web’s promise of instant and free access to the world’s information appears to be dying.

That wasn't ever a promise, or rather, it wasn't "the web's" promise to make. It might have been the ad-hoc default for a while, but it turns out that it's not sustainable or scalable, no matter how much we'd like it to be.