The real villain here is Google.
Google found one of the very best business models of all time, skimming all the surplus profit off of the entire free open internet.
This is the natural end state of that process.
A sense of dread as I see this. We are slowly seeing the end of the open web.
- AI search powered experiences take away clicks from high quality publishers in aggregate +
- Crawlbots from AI companies not playing by the rules
leading to
- High quality publishers are looking to... See more
So many good #CozyWeb and #DigitalGardening theories and chats floating around lately
I illustrated myself a map of the current web landscape based off @vgr's original thesis - https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/the-extended-internet-universe…
Combined with @ystrickler's "Dark Forest" -... See more