Richard MacManus<p>I know things are bad on the open web…but it could get even worse. Imagine any of these scenarios:</p><p>1. What if the Internet Archive got shut down after all those lawsuits. Ref: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482620" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">1482620</span></a></p><p>2. What if Google suddenly stopped high-ranking Wikipedia links. Ref: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/114205578635297619" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@ricmac/114205</span><span class="invisible">578635297619</span></a></p><p>3. What if the next generation of internet users doesn’t read and so short looping videos *completely* take over. Ref: <a href="https://overcast.fm/+AA1Ledu9mbc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">overcast.fm/+AA1Ledu9mbc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Scary times. All we can is continue to support <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openweb</span></a>.</p>