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No. There are economies of scale that synergize too well with capitalist monopolies. Even the internet itself, originally peer to peer, is largely taken over by a few gigacorps. There's a strong network effect to most of these things and users prefer one big place to go rather than a loose federation of a thousand small ones.



A big part of it was also surfing the web is more or less dead. Google created a search engine which killed browsing. Now Google search is dead and people have lost the ability to surf.


Good point... discoverability these days is mostly controlled by the big corps too :(




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