Fucking billionaires.
Billionaires gotta billionaire…
They love the smell of their own farts.
The internet is already decentralized. People just choose to use centralized services, either because their friends use the same services (network effect), or it’s what they’re familiar with.
convenience
turns out a vast majority of people disliked surfing the web
Or they never property learned to use computing devices. Those companies exploited the lack of knowledge from people and made them dependent on their services.
Basic problem solving isn’t part of computing for most people because it’s been engineered out
if a 5 year old can use a phone it’s not because the 5 year old is smart it’s because the designer of the phone was.
There are also some economic constraints that almost always make centralization cheaper. Resiliency almost always requires redundancy, and that costs more.
Before he does that, he should try to fuck himself.
Great. I’m sure another billionaire spunking money into a social media app will fix everything.
Why not use the money instead to help end homelessness or to cure disease? You know, something useful?
Oh right, because he’s a piece of shit billionaire.
These things require government buy-in and Republicans are too busy hunting the homeless for sport.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/tim-berners-lee-inrupt-spc-intl/index.html
He could support Tim Berners-Lee’s project rather than try to reinvent a shittier version of it for one app.
if I was TicTok I would treat it like an embassy being ejected and fucking burn everything.
You want it? start from scratch bitch.
Make it so incredibly annoying to maintain. Break it just enough so they don’t start from scratch, but still have to waste shitloads if time sorting everything out.
It’d almost certainly end up being less shit than TikTok.
It won’t change anything about how the internet works. It might change how things like Xitter work.
