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i think everything is shifting, not dying.

local-first tools make sense and new patterns/protocols will emerge from that. but convenience always wins, so web utilities won’t disappear — they’ll just evolve.

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Most of them will have much fewer visitors in the future, so their ad revenue will decrease to the point that they may not even consider keeping their domains. People will have their own toolboxes that they build themselves. You could say these tools evolving into something more personal and customized.

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