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EDIT: I've read the full text and I recommend it, it's good food for thought.

He is right to point out that the open web is under pressure from powerful companies which have grown rich by extracting value from open systems and are now increasingly hostile to the norms that made those systems possible in the first place.

Okay, this is going to be good. Right off the bat the author is already correctly pointing out who's to blame, why,

That said, I think it is important to be careful not to turn this into a story where AI is the problem, or even the beginning of the problem. The current AI wave is accelerating the enclosure of the web, but the open web’s troubles are much older than that.

how, and when. Props.

But neglect is not innocence. // If the open web was truly valuable, then why did so few of us support it economically?

i.e. you're still to blame if you did nothing, and you were in a position to do the right thing. And we were all in that position, making us all guilty.

On a lighter side… if you're reading this, odds are you're already doing at least something. The Fediverse might have a thousand problems, but it is a step into the right direction — a step back, into the freedom we're losing.