The web itself has transformed from a new frontier where people generally have good intentions, to a digital society undergoing active fraud, sabotage, and influence by commercial entities, governments, and wider society.
In the 90's when I first started using the WWW, it was mainly used by academics, techies and geeks - and it was glorious. People used to create web pages just for the hell of it, not for financial benefits.
Projects like IPFS might regain that thing we lost.
The problem is that the new trash is much more hostile: it's actively trying to subvert/cover the good stuff.