Gentrification is a useful idea for understanding the internet’s problems, as well as the need for alternative models that are open and fair.
    • N0b3d
      8·
      3 years ago

      People who are unwilling to be part of the kind of surveillance that users of the big tech companies are (they’re paying with their personal information for services rather than money), are effectively “priced out” though. Most of my friends use Facebook and the like and I’m effectively cut out of a lot of our online interaction because I (and a few others) refuse.

  • nerdyguy1990
    6·
    3 years ago

    I read a passage in the article, “how the internet could be and can still be” and it reminded me of the protocol Gemini. Gemini is a smaller network, similar to http, and was actually supposed to be the main protocol for how the internet functioned, but then http came in and now we have ads, spyware, etc. Basically, and this sounds boring, I know, but the internet was supposed to be read-only, since Gemini network doesn’t have videos or anything along those lines. There are LOTS of Gemini-based browsers that demonstrate the Gemini network. It’s pretty cool.