[politelemon]

I feel the problem is not tech, it's people. People will always flow towards walled gardens (jails), centralised solutions, and converge towards critical mass.

The running systems need cash and it's in their best interest to keep audiences captive and paying. So what you're seeing with the complexity of the web is a system that was initially built on trust and has been compensating for bad actors and economic incentives ever since.

Now that this 'system' is in place, it's going to be very hard to change it. Look at any other real life system you deal with and how hard it is to change it, even if it's no longer suitable for modern life or future concerns.

[beardyw]

> People will always flow towards walled gardens (jails), centralised solutions

I think they flow towards coherent solutions. Sadly the titans of tech don't play well together since their profits trump our convenience, so we end up in walled gardens. How we push back is another question, since our convenience trumps forcing them to change.