This is the end of Web 2.0. There will be a blip on signal/noise ratio (which wasn't that great to begin with, 99.9% of UGC is trash anyway) as procedurally-generated content floods sites with even more nonsense – and then once they become unusable (reddit already is), the next crop will pop up.
I'm long on people with great taste, trendsetters and commentators, editors, and curators. They'll be the vanguard of this next iteration of the internet.
Collapse of Techcrunch and Valleywag might end the "Web 2.0" hype era. Web 2.0 itself won't end, because it never existed - you can't really find anything "web 2.0" that isn't just evolution or wider distribution of concepts from "Web 1.0".
A satire site will be removing all of its archive from public view. While it is joking in tone it gives a solid story telling of the shift in online print media landscape over the past 20 years since the rise of Facebook - and what might be the final bell with ChatGPT.
When stay a lot in our bubble of technology and HN, but this is a good view of responding to those changes over time.
No more Web 3.0, NFT, DeFi posts for a few years. Top Kek, lel.
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