The Three-Legged Stool: A Manifesto for a Smaller, Denser Internet

gotta transition from a mindset of trading merchandise to a mindset of (technologically possible) non-scarce digital assets.

and we've traded merchandise for more than a few thousands of years, so I see a problem larger than just 20th century paradigms.

but trade is a bit nonsensical on digital stuff, as NFTs clearly demonstrated, so it's not a trivial issue

RSS is my primary way of following the web these days (well has been for a couple of decades). If there's no RSS feed I simply don't follow a site; there usually is.

You want people to be able to find you, for your outbound communications (self-promotion), and you want people to be able to cold-contact you in circumstances that are useful to you. But if you're not very careful your inbound communications get completely overwhelmed by spam and/or abuse.

Discovery is work. Spamblocking is work. Abuse deletion is work. None of which people want to do themselves, so they delegate it to platforms which do it for them.

Sure, but this is a 1 time cost and most people already have an account. I'm sure it also takes several minutes to set up your internet or phone too.

>and never got the phone number confirmation code

Are you potentially using a phone number from a service like twilio instead of your actual phone number? VoIP and related numbers are usually banned because they are mostly used by malicious users.

Keeping track of the posts you've like is a feature of the app. Personalization is also another feature of the app. Tracking the time you have the app open is why you can see your screen time and how you can set screen time limits. These are features which users find value.

If you don't want this data to last a century you can just delete your account and your data will be deleted too.

No, you can sign up with just an email address assuming you don't look like a bot.