The rise of platforms like Substack, Beehiiv, and Ghost have done much to decentralize content distribution; the same can be said for podcasts, which are still mainly distributed through RSS. Twitter has relinquished its stranglehold on shortform text communication, with many of its users flowing to Bluesky, Mastadon, Substack Notes, and even... See more

it’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of the internet, but I’ve actually been encouraged by how much web usage has flowed away from a handful of tech conglomerates in recent years