Mastodawn

Sep 21, 2025

The old web was decentralized:

- Newsgroups
- Personal Websites
- Bulletin board
- Email as a service, not a platform
- Internet relay chat (IRC)
- Early blogs

Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became consumers, trapped in algorithms, tracking, and enshittification. Revenue more important than people.

The Fediverse is a way back: no ads, no algorithms, no dark patterns. People first. A web worth reclaiming. And open source is the engine of this transformation.

Take back the web. Decentralize again 💪 Bring people to the Fediverse, promote open source and build federated services.

#TakeBackTheWeb #Decentralized #Fediverse #StopBigTech #OpenSource #DeGoogle #UnplugTrump

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Dave Winer ☕️Sep 21, 2025

@Larvitz

Yes. And bring the writing features of the web which twitter and its offspring threw out.

It’s not just centralization that hurt the web, it’s also that they removed important features.

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Larvitz

@davew
Centralization and feature loss went hand in hand. The “platform logic” always simplifies and strips away anything that doesn’t serve engagement metrics. The Fediverse is our chance not just to decentralize, but to rebuild those richer tools for writing and sharing, without the pressure to dumb things down for ads.