@molly0xfff Personally I miss the anarchic days of 1990s net art. However, for people with shorter Internet memories, I'd point to RSS (1999) as a democratic protocol that let anyone be a publisher. While the shuttering of Google Reader (2013) marked the encroachment of publishing monopolies online, the benefits of Really Simple Syndication persist to this day—for example making it easy for anyone to distribute a podcast on multiple platforms.
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