Internet

While reading a Mastodon thread by Simon Willison, I discovered the following prescient warning– published in 2019! –from Anil Dash. In this post, Dash explains how platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and others use their one link restrictions as a deliberate barrier to the open web.

A twofer for you on the modern internet. The first paints a grim picture of what the internet has become, and the second gives us a hopeful manifesto for the future.