as somebody who has seen them go from a promising site with an interesting API to a walled garden where their latest version of the messenger requires me to log into the platform every time and where I'm (since some time) prevented from exporting my own contacts (while they still are able to access my gmail contacts and spam my connections ...) I would love to see them crash and burn and never come back.

   - https://gigaom.com/2013/09/21/linkedin-is-breaking-into-user-emails-spamming-contacts-lawsuit/

   - http://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/02/12/linkedin-takes-aim-developers-plans-lock-apis/

   - http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/23/linkedin-quietly-removes-option-to-export-contacts-makes-users-wait-up-to-72-hours-for-their-data-archive/

   - http://fortune.com/2015/07/24/linkedin-export-contacts/

The open web doesn't exist any more. Nothing is interoperable in a predictable way. Every social site looks the same, offers the same features copied/stolen from each other. Every idea founders come up with is just another shitty variation of "give us your data we give you the features, trust us it will be awesome". Very few think about decentralization. Engineers are busy discussing which new programming language is better but nobody does anything revolutionary any more. I'm so bored.

EDIT: typos