This is nothing new and we can start paddling the boat in the other direction whenever you are ready. Expect it to take quite a bit of work and the earnings to be disappointing or worse.

The worse setbacks/shortcommings are probably:

1) removing promotional signatures from comments. This made it not worth your professional time writing a comment. It should also be a mechanism for raising the bar for quality comments. If there is a product or service behind your sig and it is bullshit or overpriced you need to deliver high quality well researched content. In contrast if you are a full time FOSS communist (joking) you get to misbehave all you like.

2) failure to make RSS mainstream. There are some services but few really know how to use RSS: The user needs to start with tens of thousands of subs then delete everything they don't like (dozens of items in a single click) and do keyword filtering. Some LLM to combine similar topics. I quickly slap this together many years ago.

https://salamisushi.go-here.nl

It's a pretty dumb script. All it does is gather the RSS/Atom feed from all websites you visit. I imagined that would produce a pile of rubbish but it turns out the websites one visits are surprisingly interesting. It shouldn't be a surprise but it is very.

RSS should be a constantly moving inbox with new stuff arriving non stop.

3) torrents should be expanded. Applications should really talk with a central torrent client to download all kinds of interesting things. Lets make an offline internet with online characteristics.

4) what I call "force the pattern", at least some people know how to do a things from step A to Z. With software you don't need to know, just follow the steps. The thing here shouldn't be to exploit the user. People should be made to do useful things for themselves. They think they want endorphin but what they really want is to find a partner, a community, a school, a job, a house, a car and perhaps a country. To learn how to sail the seven seas and how to use all parts of the buffalo.