Spite House: AI, disintermediation and the end of the free web Highlight

The free web isn’t thriving. Anyone who publishes on it knows this. We’re losing traffic and business models, but we’re also losing a vision of what the web could be. Open, distributed, owned by everyone and no one. A space where you could build something and people could find it. Where linking mattered, where citation mattered, where the web was a conversation, not a one-way extraction of value. Where you could fact-check and unpick the biases (some of the time, anyway). I’ve lived on this web my whole adult life. I can’t watch it become something else without saying something.