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We are witnessing the natural end stage of the corporate internet.
We gifted this place to the world at large, because it was a nice place for us, and we hoped it would be useful and we liked to build it. The wider world made the mistake of thinking they owned it now, and could tell us what to do with it and what it was for. But the original gift still exists. The enfuckened version that people tried to "improve" it into is just shedding and crumbling, as a reptile's skin falls away still in the shape of the original living thing.
I've been looking into things like Meshtastic. The bandwidth is extremely low but I can own the infrastructure.
Meshtastic, which is basically a decentralized internet, does not solve the issue of big tech scraping our data and using it for AI training. Lemmy is a good example - it’s decentralized nature makes it a great source for data harvesting for AI models training with easy access while Reddit does try to limit the scraping possibilities (although obviously the motivation is not them saving the world but them trying to profit)
I'm more thinking about censorship, closing down of platforms entirely, maintaining the ability to get information at all. Which Meshtastic is uniquely poorly suited for, it's barely a chat room. But, it's a start.