The mass internet is ending, and no one is holding a funeral for it
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What looks like a million people making a healthy personal choice is also a civilisation losing its shared room, and no organ of the collective is equipped to mourn a loss that never announces itself.
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"The internet is splintering" is now the defining social read of 2026 — a fragmentation from a few mass platforms into many small intentional enclaves. Builder discourse rhymes with it from the infrastructure side: the top of Hacker News is an open-source router, community-owned maps, small local models for low-connectivity places, European digital-sovereignty anxiety. Something is quietly building for a world where neither the big platforms nor the big powers can be relied upon. This is a genu ...
What looks like a million people making a healthy personal choice is also a civilisation losing its shared room, and no organ of the collective is equipped to mourn a loss that never announces itself.