Walled-garden platforms replaced the open, participatory promise of Web 2.0

Evidence

Ultimately, though, the ideals of Web 2.0 gave way to the same disillusionment as the dot-com bust. While the economic downturn of 2008 turned out to be merely a blip rather than a bubble bursting, the term “Web 2.0” became passé by the early 2010s. The idea of openness and participation seemed naïve in the face of walled-garden App Stores and Facebook. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 165

Categorization

• SEED: A possible essay angle: tracing how the participatory rhetoric of Web 2.0 gave way to centralized platform control — directly relevant to modern creator-economy critique.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 165