--- title: "💭 Revisiting the closed canon" description: "!https://derekkedziora.com/notes/revisiting-the-closed-canon-" date: 2026-05-31 published: true tags: - Indieweb - thought template: link ---

A post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to eve...

This is what makes rss so interesting to me. Its boring old tech that fell out of mainstream popularity years ago, yet many sites still support it. Not all, especially ones that come with a good dickover. At the same time, it's sad to see the human internet dying, even more quickly than before. Not only do we have rampant bots and sites seo maxxing to get to the top. We have ai search overview that answers mose simple questions pretty good, chat that does good, and agents at our fingertips. The need for tutorials is pretty much dead. What we need now is human experiences shared and documented more than ever. I've been writing a whole lot less simply because this transition has been hard. Most of my pre 2024 posts were how to, notes for future me. Things so simple agents just spat out better versions in seconds these days with barely a question. !!! note This post is a thought. It's a short note that I make about someone else's content online #thoughts