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Don't kid yourself. It was intentional. We should all be getting really worried about these platforms.

You feel that cold breeze? The future is coming and it's chilly.

I have a different view. This will create a need for better decentralization tech. That’s a warm future to me.

I think you're right and I think it's strange that we focus so much on crypto and other high-tech solutions to problems we don't have, but not on federated distributed versions of social media, messaging, video hosting. I guess it's not as new and shiny.

I've been using matrix for the past year or so and I can tell you it's been great. I'm surprised at how stable and easy it is. I text friends who are on different servers, and no one notices. The clients are all starting to get E2EE by default. Hopefully the future is as warm.

There's a solution here. In the past it was fidonet, today it might be the fediverse.

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