as i say, the island becomes an archaepelago
this was never meant to be a replacement for the spook/corp funded "free" discussion of which facebook was the representative first implementation, and twitter the runner up, and third place for reddit
it's meant to be a replacement for IRC, phpbb, simple machines, discourse, discord, matrix... and secondarily stuff like github and gitlab and wikipedia
Yeah, stuff like Twitter and Facebook and BlueSky have to funnel everyone into one Gigantic Public Square, so that they can control the narrative and spy on people and sell advertising.
That's why Trump loves that stuff. Look at me! Look at me! Whole world must look at me! Buy $Trump! MAGA!
Tiresome as heck.
People just wanna chat with people about stuff they find interesting or hang out with their frens, or some mix of the two. And they don't always want to do that in public.
100%
An the people who are at the top (influences and advertisers) love it, they assume everyone else is like them and can do it like them and see no other world view. They're so isolated it's wild. They don't understand that it's massively asymmetric contract.
Rewarding to the few, time/wealth extraction and isolation for the many.
Yeah, I'd rather just talk to my frens or people nerding out with me about the stuff I like nerding out about.
