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by butMyside 1668 days ago
Domain squatting, and all the security effort of protecting now worthless code IP, meta data analysis for private use, profit being funneled to fewer and fewer people are all outcomes of web 1 & 2

Take off the rose colored glasses; it’s all been a speculative game. That’s the root node of our economics at this point.

At the end of the day it’s electron state in a box of metal and plastic. It’s been generating “value” for owners distracting people from their lives.

I’ve been online since the 80s; people were complaining about web 1 ruining usenet, irc, and everything else.

Time moves on.