One Google exec recently said the web is “thriving.”

For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Considering that many don’t even know anymore what a website actually is, or domains (especially TLDs that are not .com or <insert local one>)…

    Also take into account that people are lazy (not meant condescending). Using the major shit is easy, “everyone else does too!” and technologically challenged people can use it.

    Even IF selfhosted XYZ would be as easy as downloading something (it already starts to be “too complicated” for many) and executing it, it probably wouldn’t happen.

    I, personally, fear for the future of the web. I’ve seen the peak of the web and its constant accelerated decline since.

    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      Yeah I know more than a few people fitting that description. But I do believe things can turn around. It’s less likely to make converts of people who already have that mentality, but things can resurge among new people and I think there’s a real movement there with tech literacy.