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Why though? 99.9% of people don’t care, and the internet (Facebook, instagram, TikTok, YouTube, gmail, the occasional Wikipedia) work fine for them.

The overwhelming vast majority of people just don’t care about the internet outside those major few silos, so as far as “humanity” is concerned the internet is working as intended.

It pisses me off what’s become of the internet, but I don’t personally see it changing.

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You are right about people's current opinions, but seem to be assuming that given a better option, people would continue to make sub-optomal choices.

If so, I don't agree. Your small minority's job is to deliver those alternatives, and to feed the flames while the rest of the world makes the transition. Which they will do because the next thing is clearly so much better.

Have more faith in most of humanity and doubt yourself and similar others for having failed so far to disrupt this industry with better technology.

This attitude is exactly why things won't change. .1% of the world is still 7 million people.

I guess it’s a good thing 99% of people don’t run the world. If products were dictated by the majority we wouldn’t have macOS, nor even iOS which is technically a minority by raw users. Obviously some users use more intensely than others, which is why catering to power users is a totally viable and legit strategy.

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