Web2’s greatest vulnerability isn’t cyberattacks. It’s dependence on anonymous goodwill.
Behind the scenes of your favorite platforms, critical services continue to function only because nameless contributors still choose to care.
Volunteer developers patch open-source libraries faster than most security teams.
Community mods suppress chaos where platform AI fails.
Anons run legacy bridges, archives, and APIs abandoned by corporations chasing quarterly profits.
Meanwhile, Big Tech lays off talent, shutters products, and breaks dependencies—leaving ecosystems in limbo.
If that goodwill disappears, Web2 crumbles not with a bang, but a silent shrug.
We're not standing on infrastructure. We're standing on the shoulders of unthanked ghosts.
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