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The web used to be a wild place. Every site you visited had something interesting, something unique about it. Perhaps a funky design, a strange structure or format, or nothing - no design, no structure. Just stuff! Websites had character, each presenting its content in a way that only that site could. Websites had... personality.

Now, however, for many denizens of the internet, that personality which we could use to illuminate the world is confined and diminished and restrained and molded. The commercial web is what most people (in particular young or recently connected people) see and have seen for nearly two decades now - That web is devoid of different - It is built to support a rigid structure, red tape, policies and guidelines and you can't do that and no, do it my way. You're locked in. You're stuck, you're watched, you don't move, you're unable to bend and flex and be yourself. You are simply a resource that is supposed to generate content for others, fitting within the rigidity of the system to in turn keep others and yourself further trapped and tracked.

You have one purpose on the commercial web - to feed and be fed by The Algorithm.

The web is not the commercial web. That commercial web is but the surface, the outer layer forced into place through money and profits and demand for control and influence. Seen first because it is on top; You witness it and it takes hold of you and keeps you in its addictive grip, training you to not dig or swim or roam, you are to merely tread water. You are not to dive and delve elsewhere and find the wild.

That wild? The untamed, chaotic, wonderful real web? It still exists. It's here, it's growing. Blooming, blossoming. The unique voices of tens of thousands of human beings, their opinions, their endeavours, their creations, laid out into the internet just because in their own style with their own voice.

It is likely I am preaching to the converted, but if just one person can see this and dig a little, look up and see what the web should be. There's more to the internet than corporate interests and profit and algorithms and AI slop. The internet is for you and not for them. Now, more than ever, unique voices and perspectives are needed across the entire planet. Diversity, respect. You.

You don't need to compete, you just need to be entirely you. Human. Free from the bindings of the commercial web.

So get a website or a blog. Write something. Draw something. Say something. Build something. Rewild the web.

The world wild web needs you.