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Great article, one problem: it's yet another lament. Any ideas how to fix/prevent it?

Maybe we should get our wifi routers into a mesh network. Maybe we should start hosting our own stuff, or make simple tools for this, like YunoHost, iRedMail, etc. But please, stop writing articles about how bad it is.

"I get things are bad. But what are we doing to fix it?" — Casey Newton (Tomorrowland, 2015)

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This is the ideal solution: Tim Berner Lee's (the creator of the internet). PODS let you own your own data and switch from social network to social networks as easily as changing your socks.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/ways-to-decentralize-the-w...

Inventor of the Web, not the Internet.

However, many of his later ideas, like the Semantic Web, have not taken off. “Own your data” is not a new idea, but it isn’t happening. Most people don’t care. It takes more than a famous name to change that.

We want to do something, but we haven't figured out what yet. Defining a problem is often the first step to a solution.

The problem has been defined, countless times. Examples include 'The Web We Lost'[1] from 2012, 'The Web We Have To Save'[2] from 2015 and so on. I think we spent enough time on defining problems, so let's start working on fixes.[3]

[1]: http://anildash.com/2012/12/the-web-we-lost.html [2]: https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a4... [3]: https://indieweb.org/

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