Oh undeniably so. We wouldn’t be having this conversation, of course, without it.

But you’re forgetting that things like community media exist. Sure, “street press” and “zines” tend to have a rather frustrating political bent, but they’re still a thing.

And phones, texts, mail, hell, even email and forums existed before the internet became the bloated hell it is today…

I don’t necessarily hate the concept of the medium that allows, say, sites like this to exist. I hate the fact that in its current forum it has completely erased not only entire segments of life, entire functionalities (see below), but also a lot of that… “Early internet”. The good stuff is largely gone. Even before they killed Flash, it was disappearing faster than I had any idea of…

Frankly, I don’t much like what is left, lol.

A lot of this is down to the dominance of the monolithic three (Apple, Facebook, Google), but there’s clearly more happening than just that…