Richard MacManus on Nostr: 1/ The “thousand flowers will bloom” lie of Web 2.0. In my latest Cybercultural ...

1/ The “thousand flowers will bloom” lie of Web 2.0. In my latest Cybercultural post, I wrote: “…the Enshittocene represents the inverse of the renaissance that was Web 2.0. Whereas Web 2.0 promised that a thousand flowers would bloom, in the form of web applications and user-generated content, what ended up happening was the opposite: a handful of internet platforms became dominant and throttled innovation.”

I came across a couple of “thousand flowers” citations from Web 2.0 Google & Twitter…