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Tim Berners-Lee's vision of an open, interconnected web is increasingly incompatible with today's reality, as major platforms like X (Twitter) have progressively closed their APIs and now legally threaten tools like Nitter that allow access to public content. The author argues that APIs fundamentally cannot solve the "walled garden problem" because they provide limited, predetermined access to data and prevent developers from building innovative applications that require cross-platform integration or comprehensive data analysis. The solution lies in adopting open protocols like atproto and ActivityPub that allow direct data access rather than relying on corporate gatekeepers.