I’m sick of the internet being 5 sites with all traffic channeled through them and maximum profit in the minds of the greedy corporate sociopaths that run them, it feels as intimate as an airport. I miss the days of niche forums and chat rooms where you could become a regular and build close relationships with the other regulars.
IMO the Internet peaked with the blogosphere era of the early-mid '00’s. While much of the activity took place on large blog-hosting websites like Wordpress or Blogger, the corporations had a pretty hands-off approach and “content creators” had greater influence and networks of similar blogs arose organically. Everyone had their blogroll listed on their sidebar and everything could be aggregated easily via RSS. I hope we can return to something like that model once again.