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What will you use instead?

Native apps!

If Big Platform lets you.

Not sure what you mean.

gemini

gopher obviously.

PC software, embedded firmware, drivers, websites, etc. Right tool for the right job.

On the contrary. In a world of spyware stacks controlled by oligarchic corporations, the web is more indispensable than ever.

I agree that it’s a pile of garbage. Essentially a set of languages and protocols commandeered by corporations for their own benefit and also held back by those same corporations so they have a moat. We’ve gathered around human slop like Javascript and stuck with it “just because”.

Nevertheless here you are.

And yet I bet you would have a hard time spending a day without it. Obviously interacting to this comment would also use the Web.