Ask HN: How would you design internet 2.0 to make it personal again?
How would you go about designing internet 2.0 if your goal was to keep it personal without corporations, ads, bubbles, bots, and A.I. slop?
Stallman had this figured in the '80s; you'll never defeat the commercial desire for software. But you can undercut them to the point that their business is no longer sustainable, a-la GPL software like Linux and Emacs. Twitter almost had this figured out, in that a user could share and curate their own feed of content from different sources. But Twitter had many mounting issues, which eventually reached an inescapable breaking point.
So, you could try building on the Twitter model with a more decentralized approach. But drawn out to it's logical conclusion, a feed-based CMS is still just a website in fancy clothes. The future of the internet is probably still the internet we use today, with minor changes made to facilitate convenience for users.
If not - well, there's a lot of evidence that 99.99% of people are willing to put up with all that shit, so long as they get an endless stream of shiny new click-bait which is minimal-effort & mostly-free-seeming.