/lit/ - Literature

>>17976263
Sorry, I admit I stopped reading your post after a while.
Obviously your first statement is just wrong then, what you seem to be saying isn't that the internet is monolithic by it's very nature but that that the more people who use the internet, the more centralized it becomes; now that it is more accessible to the vast majority of society, there are more people using it, hence it's present monolithic nature.
I don't think I really agree with you though. I think people are just fine with switching between millions of apps and websites. The only thing they care about is whats useful to them and this is usually naturally determined through the process of competition. What we now have though are companies like Google who control what is seen by people on the web, essentially manipulating the competitive process to further their own interests.
Even in the '90s-2000s, when "normies" started to use the internet, there were millions of websites that people visited and created and people where happy to do so. That was real competition. The websites where relevant to people's interests and time. Websites were relevant to peoples locality (a website for NYers or Londoners for example). The internet was an exciting place to "surf". I'm rambling now but you get my point.

What skills do Literature majors get in their degree programme?