I agree. It’s funny when myspace died and facebook rose from the ashes I told some friends I wouldnt bother doing a facebook because it would probably rise and fall as fast as myspace did. Oh how funny I was and how the internet changed.

That said I dont think we’re going to go back. The internet still has the capacity for big shakeups and movements but at the end of the day it’s gone mainstream and that means there is a lot of money flowing into the web to make sure that the sites that rise to the top are corporate driven. Unfortunately everyone seems to want everything in one place and is very unmotivated to leave.

It took reddit having a PR disaster for reddit alternatives to actually reach enough critical mass to not be a ghost town. I’ve been taking a gander at things like lemmy or tilde in the past but you’d have very little activity very few posts and I’d check periodically and get nothing. When spez continued to keep tripping over his own feet again and again I was delighted to see it lead to just enough of a shedding of users to get some communities active!

While I think we may see some big online businesses shift and die, I think that for the most part we’re not returning to the old in flux era of the web we once knew.