Good Web Graveyard

For those of us interested in more ethical, user-focused social platforms, it’s worth understanding how these ventures can go wrong. To that end, start here at the Good Web Graveyard: a link compilation on departed websites that had marketed themselves in terms of ethics. Avoiding exploitative business models isn’t itself a guarantee of failure, but plenty of other things are, and by reading up on what’s gone defunct, we can learn to recognize the warning signs.