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I generally don't mind writing into the void, but I know many others do. Regarding the purpose of the act of contributing on and to the open web, Jay Hoffmann offers a perspective in his article The Free Web. He writes, that it exists foremost through contributions of individuals that are both free as in speech as well as in beer. He continues to advise:
Put something on the web. And do it for free. This will require, first and foremost, your time. That is no small ask, time is the most valuable thing we have. But I can tell you one thing that’s become readily apparent to me in my decade of research of the web. It is only through people’s time that we’ve gotten to where we are. The web wasn’t built by solo tech geniuses, or finance firms, or luminaries with grand promises. It was time, and energy, compounded by millions of people. Tiny little bits of information collectively covering the vastness of human experience. Collective action will be what brings us to the next era of the web. [..] These little actions, these little contributions, are the best way we have to claw back to a truly free web.
What a pity it would be if one of the greatest socio-technical systems that humans have build would be wrestled out of our collective hands by corporate greed.