One of the most important articles you could read in 2026 as it relates to the death of the internet. This article is a response to several others by different authors who are in conversation with one another about the overall collapse/murder/death of the internet, and what is to be done.

This piece by Nyx manages to generalize and capture the essence of the overall superstructural problems instead of hyperfocusing on the particularities unlike the others. They’re all worth reading but only this one manages to push away petty bourgeois illusions.

Please read this and the other one by Nyx (tagged with death-of-the-internet)

This is primarily why I don’t advocate for Bluesky as anything but a “if you really must have literally twitter but not twitter”. Mastodon and the Fediverse is actually not centralized! How inviting of hope.

Z