Paywalled article.

Also, how do you plan to start over without inviting all the same people problems that existed before?

The stuff this article is talking about is not the Internet. It's more like a good chunk of the web ("web 2.0"), social media, and forums.

I don't entirely disagree. While we're at it lets let played-out Internet culture (memes, etc.) die and lets do something new.

The Internet is wires, routers, switches, and IP.

Any piece that starts off by conflating the internet and the web isn’t worth reading.

reminds me of the faux "new internet" pitch from silicon valley. in tone at least.

Don’t let the door hit ya where god split ya!

"We're going to start over, and this time we won't make the same mistakes!"

Lol.

We already have Internet2, do we need Internet3?

It's always amusing to me when I see people who only interact with a tiny percentage of the web saying that it's time to burn everything down and star again. Do these people know other websites exist? I would hope a tech journalist would.

The web is essentially already dead to me. HN and perhaps 3 or 4 other sites are the only place I spend any time any longer. I seem to lean instead on LLMs more and more. And so far, not disappointed.

(Which may say more about how low the bar is these days with our enshittified Web.)

it's very funny that this is paywalled

The problem isn't the web, the problem is greed is becoming more and more acceptable with every passing year. It's consuming everything.

But really who can blame them? Housing, health, cars, everything is unaffordable. Who can afford to be not greedy? People who would have otherwise lived quiet, content lives are now clamoring to get to the top of the hill just to survive before it all topples over.

The internet has been a shambling zombie since Eternal September started.

Paywalled and ad-ridden article telling me what is wrong with the internet.

This reminds me of "Don't complain about the traffic: YOU are the traffic".

I'm having trouble envisioning a positive future, maybe the web will rot but if we don't make something better of that corpse someone with bad intentions will.

An we aren't making much to better the web either. We really need new ideas before it's too late and the web just surrenders to be net negative for the people or just boring.

Never give up. Adapt, overcome.