Stephen Downes

"The internet is not dying," writes Terry Godier, "A commercial veneer glued on top of it is dying." I'm not a fan of the muted text in dark mode and the scroll reveal presentation, but the message in my view is sound. Godier presents a three-layered internet: platforms, which are the commercial veneer; services like GitHub and Cloudflare, which can be large and influential but are not actually necessary; and finally, the actual set of protocol-based services, things like Icecast (shoutout to Soma.fm), RSS (I subscribed), HTML (you're soaking in it) and finger. Boring: "too useful to disappear, too uncool to hype, too federated to acquire, and too awkward to turn cleanly into a platform."