With enshitification closing in on all aspects of the internet has the american tech industry ensured the internet will never evolve past where it is now?
The internet isnt a person or thing. Its a giant network and its literally whatever the nodes on the network want it to be. Thats why we are here having this discussion on lemmy.
The internet is so many different things all at once, you can't really generalize it or say the whole thing is being enshittified.
I think we all just learned a hard lesson about trusting companies where we are the product rather than the customers. People were very naive in the early days of social media, and advertising.
I use discord but i can't stand it as a platform for discussion. Forums, even reddit, seem so superior to me as a format for discussion and storing information. Maybe I haven't figured out discord yet