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Yesterday felt to me like the day Web 2.0 died. It's actually rather awkward. Web 2.0 devolved into enshittification, Web 3.0 to many looks to be a scam from the outset, and that leaves us with the Fediverse as the most hopeful continuation of what we liked about Web 2.0. But what is the Fediverse? More of the same as Web 2.0? An entirely new thing? I've been coming to view the Fediverse as being Web 2.0.1. It's a bug fix. The corporations controlling Web 2.0 were the problem, not the idea of a more dynamic and interactive web. The solution isn't strictly speaking Peer 2 Peer solutions, as many people still want a curated and moderated space, so they're not dealing with a constant onslaught of dicks and nazis they didn't ask for (I'm sure someday the Peer 2 Peer networks will have a viable solution for that, but for now, they don't as far as I can tell). But a networked governance structure in which volunteers own the instances and the users have more choice in how their space is moderated seems like a major fix to what we were seeing before, and I think it's a major benefit for all of us
I've been really intrigued by the developments coming from the Web0 / small web train of thought. https://web0.small-web.org/
That's certainly one way to phrase it. In bright yellow highlighted text.
Fediverse seems more like it's bringing us back to Web 1.0, which is a good thing. That was a time when the internet was open and end-users drove the evolution of software—not greedy corporate shareholders.
Idk if it's web 1.0
More like it's taking the best bits of web 1 and putting them back into web 2, a renaissance if you will.
Maybe a web 1.5?