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Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era - Mozilla Foundation

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We used to talk about the next era of the internet at dinner conversations; now we talk about technofeudalism, platform extractivism and the attention economy taking over every aspect of our lives. We talked about moving to peer-to-peer platforms in lieu of big tech social media; now we talk about burner phones and cleaning up our Instagram to be able to enter China or the U.S. We thought that web3 could be a real alternative; but have come to accept that blockchains seem to be far more useful to financialize the world rather than to democratize it. But there’s new reason to hope. The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, the people building web alternatives are also entering their Post-Naive Era: building digital infrastructure based on a different set of values, structures and ideologies to serve their communities, and establish n

Building the culture we want requires a radical change in mindset, and action. The dream of a free and open Internet isn't dead—but in 2025, it's definitely more complicated. Published Oct. 15, 2025 We used to talk about the next era of the internet at dinner conversations; now we talk about technofeudalism, platform extractivism and the attention economy taking over every aspect of our lives. We talked about moving to peer-to-peer platforms in lieu of big tech social media; now we talk about burner phones and cleaning up our Instagram to be able to enter China or the U.S. We thought that web3

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