On three different occasions today I followed links to content that used to be on the open web, only to be confronted by paywalls or "free" login-only access that is too expensive in terms of privacy, security, cognitive burden, or frustration.
There's very little open web left and a lot of that (including my stuff) is effectively invisible in the enshittified search engines and unwelcome in the pornocalypsed social media silos.
@Hamishcampbell Well, I'm here, ain't I? So I guess I don't disagree with you all that much. However, in my view of things it ain't the #OpenWeb if it doesn't embrace search, and it definitely isn't open if the ideology is that stuff posted to it should be unfindable by default for privacy reasons (which is one of the justifications offered for not making Mastodon searchable.) So, I am enjoying this experiment, but an open web reboot it is not, at least for me.
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