{"id":1760,"date":"2026-05-19T11:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mschuette.name\/wp\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:19:06","slug":"links-2026-05-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mschuette.name\/wp\/2026\/05\/links-2026-05-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Links 2026-05-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>on the decline of the open web and its communities&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"pocket-post\"><span class=\"pocket-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctrl.blog\/entry\/maps-public-service.html\">Should you fix errors and contribute to Google Maps for free? \u2013 Daniel Aleksandersen<\/a><\/span><br \/><q>Google Maps is incredibly detailed and useful. But Google uses it for tracking and deliver ads. Should you contribute for free to build its monopoly?<\/q><br \/>\n&rarr; with follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctrl.blog\/entry\/re-maps-public-service.html\">Should you contribute open data to OpenStreetMap for free? \u2013 Cj Malone<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"pocket-post\"><span class=\"pocket-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.emacsen.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/16\/osm-is-in-trouble\/\">Why OpenStreetMap is in Serious Trouble \u2013 Serge Wroclawski<\/a><\/span><br \/><q>As long as this post is, it&#8217;s not a comprehensive list of all the problems with the project, only the ones I found most directly affect the project&#8217;s success and that I wasn&#8217;t able to address myself during my time on the project.<\/q><\/li>\n<li class=\"pocket-post\"><span class=\"pocket-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web3.tante.cc\">The Third Web \u2013 tante<\/a><\/span><br \/><q>For anyone that wants to know what all the fuss is about and why they should care.<\/q><\/li>\n<li class=\"pocket-post\"><span class=\"pocket-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pragmaticengineer.com\/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead\/\">Stack overflow is almost dead \u2013 Gergely Orosz<\/a><\/span><br \/><q>Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.<\/q><\/li>\n<li class=\"pocket-post\"><span class=\"pocket-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/katienotopoulos\/how-we-killed-the-old-internet\">The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing \u2013 Katie Notopoulos<\/a><\/span><br \/><q>When we signed up for these services in the 2000s, we naively trusted them.<\/q><\/li>\n<li class=\"pocket-post\"><span class=\"pocket-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anildash.com\/2026\/03\/27\/endgame-open-web\/\">Endgame for the Open Web \u2013 Anil Dash<\/a><\/span><br \/><q>What we are seeing is the application of the same market-crushing techniques that were used to displace entire industries with the rise of social media and the gig economy, now being deployed across the very open internet infrastructure that made the modern internet possible.<\/q><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on the decline of the open web and its communities&#8230; Should you fix errors and contribute to Google Maps for free? \u2013 Daniel AleksandersenGoogle Maps is incredibly detailed and useful. But Google uses it for tracking and deliver ads. Should you contribute for free to build its monopoly? &rarr; with follow-up Should you contribute open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,419,18],"tags":[567,170,557,569,407,568],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-links","category-web","tag-maps","tag-openstreetmap","tag-social-media","tag-stackoverflow","tag-web","tag-web3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mschuette.name\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mschuette.name\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mschuette.name\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mschuette.name\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mschuette.name\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mschuette.name\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/mschuette.name\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mschuette.name\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mschuette.name\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mschuette.name\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}