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>>lopesp+(OP)
The elephant in the room is the size distribution of "other people's kingdoms". Having oversized kingdoms and overbearing kings is not a god-given parameter, its down to regulation, political and economic choices. Its not for nothing that the current digital world has been called neo-feudal.

The real solution is to force these kingdoms to build permanently open gates and roadways that connect the land, increase all around traffic and opportunity.

Only when people turn from digital vassals to digital citizens will we emerge from the middle ages we are currently in. In this sense the most important development in the online world is still ahead if us.

>>openri+El1
When it comes to the "internet" - you are 30 years late to apply such forces. Everything is now DRMed, closed garden proprietary bs - there is no legal framework, nor will to reverse that and we are going to pay.

And this is not cynic talking ...

>>neon_m+xF1
The web is still open.

Wide open.

For anything to build.

More users online than ever, and able to get their attention too.

>>j45+eR1
It's functionally shackled by the terms Google lays out for it.

>>treyd+l62
If Google is relevant to it.

Google's relevance has been changing with alternate means to discovery (perplexity, chatgpt) than their search.