It feels like the web is becoming more closed every year — fewer open forums, more platforms locking away data and communities behind logins. What do you think are the biggest forces driving the decline of the open internet? Are walled gardens like Discord the main problem, or is it something else like artificial intelligence, corporate consolidation, surveillance, or changing user habits?

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    Big brands like Google, Microsoft, Facebook

    Walled Garden sides, they should be forbidden

    Closed source software

    Non federated services like chats