alt Hacker NewsThis framing sets up variables incorrectly.
People have only a limited amount of time, energy, and hence capacity to process information in a day.
People used to go and are still going to facebook, because Facebook makes some part of that equation easier.
There’s many knock on effects, but the issue that is the biggest factor which will prevent people from following.
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>This framing sets up variables incorrectly.
What are the variables that would cause a shift a to more sovereign and secure populace in your mind?
For me, the variable/impetus was knowledge it was even possible to easily set up your own space. The realization that 'Oh, we can connect without the middle man'
Between the original Internet and the beginnings of the 'new' centralized internet built on top of it, a entire generation was not aware (and still largely is not) that you can easily create your own networks.
“People” != Internet people.
“People” at large were not part of the early Internet. They came much later and turned it into a shopping mall/surveillance hub.
I would love to return to a smaller Internet without the masses. We did just fine.