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  • @[email protected]English
    11•1 year ago

    What happened to reddit will probably happen on a much larger scale to the entire internet. First the enshittification destroys everything and then a new thing will emerge that much more resembles the old internet. Google’s Web Environment Integrity could be the last nail in the coffin and speed up the change significantly.

    • El BartoEnglish
      -2•1 year ago

      The web is not the internet.

      If Google does that, the people who cares will migrate to something else.

      Example: the fediverse.

      • @wmassinghamEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        The fediverse runs on the web, though.

        • El BartoEnglish
          -3•1 year ago

          But not exclusively. That’s why there are apps for it.

          If the API is HTTP based, then it would be a matter of implementing another non-web-based protocol.

          Edit: I’m not saying I would get rid of HTTP. I like RESTful services where they make sense. I’m just emphasizing that the fediverse doesn’t have to depend on one single protocol.

          • @[email protected]English
            5•1 year ago

            There’s absolutely nothing wrong with HTTP. Abandoning it would be like eliminating German because it was the language the Nazis used.