> The folks who decided that internet content should be monetized with ads had no idea what a fucked up world they'd create.

The users have created this mess because they want everything to be free. But everything has a cost.

We have an opportunity to reshape the internet and still allow large, resource-intensive, complex services that users rely on every day to instead be funded by the users with internet-native micropayments, but people still haven't pulled their heads out of their asses on this.

We cannot have it both ways. The internet cannot provide the services needed by billions of people with a fragmented indie/smallweb mindset.