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You make a solid case for abandoning the web. To be clear, in my mind I separate “the web” from “the net”; the web exists on top of the ‘net!

The web has become a cesspool of AI slop, SEO trash, walled gardens, and of course, bots of all kinds seeking entry points to everything. The dead internet theory seems more real every day.

I think humanity will ultimately abandon the web. The day cannot come soon enough for me.

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The net has also gone to shit with ISPs blocking things, NAT and CGNAT. (I'd ignore CGNAT if every ISP with CGNAT also supplied IPv6, but they don't)

Addition: A recent front-page Hacker News article was censored by my ISP, but I could access it through Tor.

It's no complete solution against AI slop but I've been working on www.webring.gg which is a democratic webring manager. To join, websites are invited and voted on by current members to keep slop from polluting the integrity of the webring.

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