I don’t think people are going to get offline and the best we can probably do is create free and open p2p platforms that don’t require registration necessarily to use. And allow people to control their own databases. A lot of communication is locked behind corporations that run the services that are building these tracking and identification databases.
I actually think it’s more about getting people off browsers and other tracking software.
>create free and open p2p platforms that don’t require registration necessarily to use
And how do you create this without it being overran by bots, spam, and people posting gargantuan amounts of porn?
>allow people to control their own databases
There are two types of people that want to control databases. 1: The freedom seeking type who want information sovereignty. 2: The type of people that want to hoover up as much data as possible for money and power.
Guess who has more ability to control the world out of those two.
Lastly, most people want to use curated websites free of spam and content they don't want. Almost nobody wants to do that curation themselves. Hence curated platforms will attract the most people via network effects.
ah shoot, that wasn't lastly...
> getting people off browsers
and putting them on what exactly? phone apps, that's not better at all. Multimedia attracts people like flies to poop. It's seemingly a natural human response to move to an application that is more visually interesting regardless of it's security safety.
> And how do you create this without it being overran by bots, spam, and people posting gargantuan amounts of porn?
By not creating public networks out of it.
The only database people want to control is their personal information and who they communicate with and when. So we should enable low barrier to entry to communicate.
I cannot solve for the social media side of it, but we can enable people to at least have low friction when getting online. Somewhere to turn to that is not a data harvesting service.
The displacement effort has to come from those that believe in those freedoms. It’s not easy, maybe impossible in some circumstances but this status quo right now cannot be it, in my opinion.
I actually think it’s more about getting people off browsers and other tracking software.