An essay exploring how scale and monetization gradually shifted the internet from open exploration to subscription lock-in, behavioral sorting, and narrative segmentation.
The argument is that these shifts were not coordinated enclosures, but structural responses to uncertainty and growth.
https://borisljevar.substack.com/p/once-upon-a-time-the-inte...
An essay exploring how scale and monetization gradually shifted the internet from open exploration to subscription lock-in, behavioral sorting, and narrative segmentation. The argument is that these shifts were not coordinated enclosures, but structural responses to uncertainty and growth. https://borisljevar.substack.com/p/once-upon-a-time-the-inte...