Post 298262 by bob@soc.freedombone.net
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 (DIR) Post #298260 by bob@soc.freedombone.net
       2018-09-29T06:50:07.231707Z
       
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       The past was what it was, and out of it we got the internet we have. That is, mostly a compromised corporate surveillance machine. The main question is always what to do with the future.
       
 (DIR) Post #298261 by phiofx@mastodon.partecipa.digital
       2018-09-29T07:15:28Z
       
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       @bob it is worthwhile to do a post-mortem of the reasons that brought us here. Otherwise we are bound to end up in similar nightmare.I think a core problem is the failure to radically simplify the IT stack so that a much larger number of people are intimate with what is going on and are able to configure/use tech for the own purposes as opposed to "consuming" itAfter all Facebook is just a freaking database accessible over http
       
 (DIR) Post #298262 by bob@soc.freedombone.net
       2018-09-29T07:34:32.578429Z
       
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       @phiofx The reason why html took off was because it was simple. Anyone of average intelligence could learn the basics of it in ten minutes.After that it was all complicated websludge.The main reason why we get everyone-in-my-database syndrome (aka web 2.0) is because we never made it easy enough to run your own website. The dns system and the CA system and NAT and IPv4 and the lack of easy software tools were a barrier.Being a gatekeeper became a goal early on. In the late 1990s there were lots of attempts to build "portals". Google and Facebook became the biggest portals.