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Recently the question was posed "What's broken about the internet?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23556010) The general response is that current internet/web/tech is broken in fundamentally significant ways. (Ads, search, social media, email, browsing, content, monopoly, privacy, laws, centralization, trolls/spam/phishing, distraction.) This leads to a natural question. What can be done to fix the problem? What organizations, projects, technologies, ideas or applications do you see are making an internet that is something we all love, feel safe using and is productive? What can we do to fix the internet?

I've been interacting with a group of interesting people through the Mozilla Builders / Fix-The-Internet project. A lot of great project ideas going on there. There's talk of making Web 3.0. Interesting stuff.. but, I'm curious, what's broken about the internet, the web and tech? If we're going to fix something it seems good to have a list of what we're trying to fix. So what do you see as being broken? Let's build a list I can take back to the group looking to fix things!

https://builders.mozilla.community/ https://mozillabuilders.slack.com/

Native web has continued to improve in feature and compatibility where one can make applications using Vanilla JavaScript direct DOM manipulation and the various native WebAPIs. Though it's a bit more verbose, doing so feels to me cognitively lighter than using common frameworks and development chains and feels more likely to be around years from now. I've come to enjoy and perhaps even prefer making progressive web apps this way. Are we to a place where primarily native web development makes sense?