Loading reply snippet...Yeah it's an infrastructure problem for sure :( anyone who might genuinely care about the internet as fulfilling social needs and not turning that into an "attention market" isn't going to be in a place economically or geopolitically to provide that as a service at-scale or long-term.

Of course I wouldn't kid myself into thinking that we could ever recreate what it was like

To circle back on this thing you said it frustrates me sometimes when discussions on "going back" to how the internet used to be is a responsibility of users like us. We can't power of friendship and passion project our way into making the dot com bubble be a thing again...!

Ack, I wish I had something more in-depth or less negative to respond with right now but like I said it's only recently have I been able to make a serious break from social media (and I do view that as a thing of Being Able, when I think about why I was so mired in the bullshit before from a hypothetical third-party perspective I feel like it'd be cruel to describe what I was doing as merely "totally solvable bad habits just put down the dang phone!"), I'm still really contemplating, like, the difference in perspective on stuff that has granted me.

I guess I can say I'm really glad you built up the courage to post this topic so we could have this conversation!