Without Medium, I wouldn't have found your website & would have missed some articles that I found extremely interesting and which also gave me a greater empathy with who you appear to be than I had from reading this piece.
My first problem with this article is it's assumption that the goal for a website is to make money. Surely that need not be the case and so I find it hard to agree that wbsites are now obsolete or, indeed, even that they are obsolescent.
My own view is that the major problem facing society is not the exponential growth of information available to us but rather our ability to filter it. The three suggestions made as to how to combat this are neither effective at nor intended to filter in such a way as to meet real, beneficial, better or life enhancing needs. In most cases they amplify choice rather than reducing it and therefore create increased confusion and mind tumult, if you will. Their main aim is also that of making profit without regard for well-being of the individual or society as a whole.
The major threat to well-being that exists from the Internet, it's structure and content, & from technological invention and expansion generally, is that it has come to control the human experience rather than to be controlled by human experience. The result has been a vast dumbing down of our populations; an insidious and damaging increase in the spread of dis and mis information; and the facilitation of increased harassment, theft, harm and other anti-social activities undertaken largely remotely and anonymously by the unscrupulous, mean and greedy.
I do utilise 'centralized networks' such as those mentioned but for specific purposes and with much caution. I far prefer to visit specific websites, for entertainment, for shopping, & certainly for seeking information or direction towards information & people who can assist me with problems. Even then, I am cautious about what I find and take pains to consult multiple and diverse sources where possible so as not to be deceived by seemingly authoritative and accurate information that actually is not so.
For me, then, this article is deceptively titled and raises many more issues than it explains or about which it offers sound advice - though, I admit that because I have never sought to acquire money, its utility in regard to moving that commodity from the pockets of multiple targets into one's own, may be valid.
Finally, if this article represents your view then why do you have a website and one which contains many extremely useful articles?
