If you want distribution of your thoughts, you have to use the walled garden controlled by giants.
> Everyone is free to move to another platform or start his own.
The reality is that you can't. Not without billions of dollars of funding.
Social networks should be regulated. They can't own the platform and make moves to crush others by threatening to downgrade your voice and participation.
I distribute my thoughts using email. I have not hit it's scalability limits yet. I cry when I think that in some future I will have to be under some proprietary platform control to distribute my thoughts.
> The reality is that you can't.
The reality is that is was solved a while ago, the solution is rss and email.
Instagram instead offers popularity and nice photo filters and colored ticks on avatars. Which are nothing in common with distributing thoughts.
> The reality is that is was solved a while ago, the solution is rss and email.
You are in a very small minority when compared to the average internet user. This is the same attitude that advocates for IRC and Jabber when modern alternatives have taken over due to user friendliness, network power, and corporate ownership/management.
It's not to say these platforms don't have problems (they do), or that a non-open model is preferable (it's certainly not ideal).
> Instagram instead offers popularity and nice photo filters and colored ticks on avatars. Which are nothing in common with distributing thoughts.
We can't ignore that the Internet has moved on from our technical solutions since the rest of the world got online. If we want it to remain open, it's up to us to help reign things back in through legislation when we see such blatantly gross abuses such as this.
If you keep pointing to RSS as the solution while simultaneously discounting all of the moves that are being made by the big players, RSS will wither and die and you will be left with nothing.
Platform control. Regulatory capture. Impenetrable new "standards". DRM. Dropped support for HTTP, RSS, semantic HTML, ad blocking, video...
Just imagine what the Internet will look like in twenty years and tell me that doesn't worry you.
I kind of get the feeling you don't target younger people? I wonder if you would also, in case you for some reason couldn't cell phones, find that totally fine, since landlines are the superior solution.
At the end of the day companies and politicians both have to go where people are, even if we find the platforms used despicable.
If you want distribution of your thoughts, you have to use the walled garden controlled by giants.
> Everyone is free to move to another platform or start his own.
The reality is that you can't. Not without billions of dollars of funding.
Social networks should be regulated. They can't own the platform and make moves to crush others by threatening to downgrade your voice and participation.