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Did predictability scale better than openness on the web?
- blnlx 7mo agoAn essay exploring how scale and monetization gradually shifted the internet from open exploration to subscription lock-in, behavioral sorting, and narrative segmentation. The argument is that these shifts were not coordinated enclosures, but structural responses to uncertainty and growth. https://borisljevar.substack.com/p/once-upon-a-time-the-internet-promised?r=249qrt https://borisljevar.substack.com/p/once-upon-a-time-the-inte...