The corporate web may be dying/reinventing itself. Everyone talks about FOSS and having a user driven experience.
But one thing we don’t have is a true FOSS web, a protocol like HTTP that only allows FOSS websites to be hosted and bars any corporate interest from hosting for profit.
Would something like that be possible? A “dark web” but not for illicit schemes but for free and open hosted content?
You go to https://website for your comporate fix and to foss:// for none “open source” content. (Stuff like fediverse, self hosted websites etc.)
You’d have to have a governing body, something like the Free Software Foundation that ensures everyone hosting on the foss-web follows the open source guidelines and goes after violators.
You say that, but I would politely suggest that your use of ‘everyone’ is narrow to your personal experience, at a guess with a focus on those who are either IT professionals or enthusiastic amateurs.
90+ of the world don’t care in the least. They want the functionality to access and share information and connect with either their friends or a wider audience. They want reliable and simple functionality. Those people don’t really care if they’re playing in a corporate walled garden.
FOSS projects with user ownership are a brilliant part of the modern tech landscape but don’t be deluded into thinking they’re a vast global paradigm shift