It feels like the web is becoming more closed every year — fewer open forums, more platforms locking away data and communities behind logins. What do you think are the biggest forces driving the decline of the open internet? Are walled gardens like Discord the main problem, or is it something else like artificial intelligence, corporate consolidation, surveillance, or changing user habits?
My biggest qualm is how on social media some people have a shit ton of accounts, to the point actual users are blocking the same person every day for weeks or even longer.
It’s spam, pure and simple. Drowning out everyone else with an insane quantity of low quality posts.
There’s no logical or rational reason for someone to juggle that many accounts, especially with fediverse where you can just one one account.