The internet is becoming more and more centralized as time goes on. Websites like reddit and facebook are becoming larger and more all-encompassing as they absorb (and destroy) smaller communities. Communities that do not get sucked up or stomped out by larger competitors drastically lose their charm and identities as their user bases swell up through exposure to/invasion from outside communities (reddit, twitter, etc.). Two good examples of this are 4chan and tumblr. Both sites had valuable and original content generated in their early days, but as time went on they become over-saturated with new users who did not care about generating original content or insightful posts, and both transformed into horrible communities as a result.

What do you think about this? What do you think the future of the internet is? What do you think the internet will look like in 5 or 10 years?