What would you say are the major applications of the internet? It's used for business and academia in ways that aren't going away, yes. M2M communication will stay. Social media is the largest user-facing segment and it might not. I don't have a sense of how big these sectors are relative to each other. If the largest sectors of the internet disappear, the internet shrinks a lot.

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How contagious is it? Can I get other people banned from Reddit by logging into my instantly banned account on their wifi network?

Probably, but now it's actually dead by all the metrics. People ask LLMs instead because they won't close their questions.

And it doesn't make sense to you that someone might make money from a platform without discussion?