keeping you engaged on their terms. And their terms alone. There’s no freedom

So keeping you engaged on seemingly your own terms is acceptable and possible?

Such articles just make me think of Bluesky with boredom and suspicion.

The real free web is the non-existent luddite web. It should solve problems platforms solve now, but with minimal engagement possible, ideally look for a second, push a button and leave for a walk. A platform is not interested in minimizing engagement, so it should be a system where paid work necessary for its operation doesn’t allow one to become a platform.

I like talking about that, and even tried to push myself (executive dysfunction is a bitch) to try to start a little toy project of something like small web (meaning objects with basic hypertext pages with links to other objects ; with current state of an object being a result of many crud-like messages, and which are considered and which are not would be determined by signatures and chain of trust, meaning that two people with different political views could have very different versions of the same forum and both be happy ; such messages and not resulting objects would be what’s stored and replicated, like something between Usenet and a version control system). But then realized I don’t really want to do that, just to talk about that, and that’s more complex than it reads. Maybe eventually, when I’m twice older.