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by bobm_kite9 2845 days ago
This seems to miss the problem completely to me. The internet essentially solved the problem of _distribution_. That meant disintermediating away from publishers, and allowed anyone to publish.

The problem then moved onto being one of _curation_. Companies such as google, facebook, amazon are in the business of providing curation: i.e. taking away the leg-work of what we should attend to.

A de-centralized web doesn't appear to decentralize the problem of curation at all, which means we are going to still end up with centralized curation and the same or similar monopolies on attention that we have now.