> Proponents of Web3, like Andreessen Horowitz general partner Chris Dixon, argue that we need to get back to what we had in the days of GeoCities—while also not giving up the advances of the Web2 years—and allow creators and businesses to form a relationship with their audiences that is not governed by algorithms and advertising.<p>There's many places to host content for free without advertising: Github pages, Neocities... You can also upload pages to Ethereum using <a href="https://newgeocities.com" rel="nofollow">https://newgeocities.com</a> by paying the transaction fee. If hosting is paid for completely upfront, does the dynamic change?<p>> “GeoCities was not about self-promotion,” Bohnett told Gizmodo in an interview. “It was about sharing your interest and your knowledge.”<p>With today's ML algorithms, posting one's knowledge feels increasingly like unpaid labor to these AI models.